Since 1960, the number of children born in the EU has tended to decrease. In 2024, Romania recorded its lowest birth rate of the last 100 years.
Romania has recorded the lowest birth rate for a century, the figures showing that less than 150,000 babies were born last year.
Many Romanian villages recorded an aging of their population. In urban areas, many people choose to give priority to their careers and have children at a more advanced age.
Some children’s schools and gardens have been forced to close due to the lack of children available to take the lessons. This is what we can see in the villages of Chilia or Brebu.
“There is no more school here,” said Alexandru Petzi, former director of a closed school in Brebu, “there is another school in a neighboring village, in Valic. There is another school in Another village next to it, in Valic.“”
However, Romanian specialists attribute these changes to a normal modernization process that should not scare anyone.
“Myself, I would not be afraid of this, we are talking about a process in progress in many European countriesS, “said Bogdan Voicu, sociologist at the Romanian Academy.
“Romania began a few years ago to modernize, from a demographic point of view“He added.
Statistics show that the Romanian municipalities of Tulcea, Caras Severin, Mehedinti, Covasna, Teleorman and Giurgiu appear on the list with a particularly low birth rate.
Almost a hundred years ago, in 1930, Romania recorded more than 480,000 births – a striking contrast with modern times.
