Female fertility in Slovakia has been on a long-term downward trend and the population is ageing, pointed out demographer Branislav Šprocha. According to him there are currently 1.6 children per woman. The minimum we reached around 2002 was below 1.2. "While for women born in the early 1940s the average number of live births was above the 2.5 child mark, in the generations of the early 1950s it was only about 2.3 children, and for those born a decade later it was about 2.2 children," said Šprocha. He added that in Slovakia the generations of women from the second half of the 1960s were the last with more than two children on average.
Source: TASR
Mojmir Prochazka, Photo: TASR
