Nearly 40 percent of babies born outside of wedlock in recent years

While some 10 percent of children were born outside of wedlock up until the 1990s, the figure recently amounts to 37 percent. The data come from the Prognosis of the Family and Household Development in Slovakia to 2030 drafted by the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV), Bratislava's Comenius University Science Faculty and INFOSTAT's Research and Demography Centre. While the fertility of unmarried women is increasing, the fertility of married women seen over the past two decades is shrinking. This is also aided by increases in the proportion of unmarried women in childbearing age. Most babies born outside of wedlock are in the south of central and eastern Slovakia, while the smallest number of extra-wedlock births is in the north and north-east of Slovakia, in the regions of Orava and Kysuce.