Most expert predictions in recent years have made gloomy predictions about a massive drop in the German population size. But researchers in Cologne have come to a rather different conclusion.
Germany’s birthrate has increased to over 1.5 children per woman for the first time in 33 years, as around 738,000 newborns arrived in Germany in 2015.
Polish writer Olga Mecking tells The Local why Germany is so much better than neighbour the Netherlands when it comes to getting pregnant and bringing up kids.
Star Formula One driver Nico Rosberg confirmed on Monday that he and his wife Vivian are now the parents of a baby girl, saying the couple were “overwhelmed and totally in love”.
Nearly one in three babies in Germany are delivered by c-section, putting Germany among the top ten European countries with the highest c-section rates, according to a new study.
A woman in the eastern German town of Leipzig has given birth to a white twin and a black twin – a phenomenon scientists say is a one-in-a-million occurrence.
