Long Europe’s baby-making champions, the French are increasingly aiming to have smaller families or no children at all, a trend driven by changing social norms, economic constraints and the ...

France’s birth rate fell by seven per cent last year to 1.8 children per woman - its lowest level since the end of the Second World War. However, it still has the highest birth rate in Europe.

President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled a comprehensive plan to combat France's dwindling birth rate. The country's birth rate has hit its lowest point since World War II, declining by 7% last year.

France's birth rate is at its lowest since the Second World War, with just 678,000 babies born in 2023, according to census data by INSEE. That is a 7% decrease from 2022 and a 20% drop from a ...

French President Emmanuel Macron promised on Tuesday to overhaul parental leave so it pays better after France saw the lowest number of births since World War Two last year, in a blow to its ...

Macron in his speech acknowledged that infertility is not the only reason fewer French are having children. “Morals are changing, we are having children later and later,” he said.

Emmanuel Macron, 46, ... André-Louis’ uncle, had forged administrative documents to hide that his wife had given birth to all of Brigitte’s three children, ...