For every 100 babies born in 2008, the year with the most births since 1984, about 55 were born in 2025. ELSTAT's figures for 2025 are provisional. In 1980 births were 148,134.
Since 2013 the fall corresponds mainly to there being fewer, and older, women, according to our own analysis of Eurostat data. Women aged 25 to 39 numbered 1.14 million on 1 January 2013 and about 800,000 on 1 January 2025: three in ten fewer. In these ages almost eight in ten of the births of 2025 took place.
In the first half of 2026 ELSTAT announced 31,390 births, against 31,386 in the same period of 2025: practically no change, in provisional figures that have so far been revised upwards. A half-year without a fall is news. It is not yet a trend.
Births fell in all regions from 2013. Among women aged 15 to 49, the share of those aged 40 to 49 rose from 33% in 2013 to 37% in 2024. And the years go up and down: after 2008 births rose three times, in 2016, 2020 and 2021, but the rises did not last.
Sources: ELSTAT (ΕΛΣΤΑΤ, Hellenic Statistical Authority), Eurostat.
