Baltics lead EU demographic crisis

Apr 04, 2011
TBT Staff

Latvia has both the lowest fertility rate and the second lowest life expectency in the EU.

BRUSSELS -- Recent statistics from eurostat, the EU's official statistics agency, have found that the Baltic States -- particularly Latvia -- are at the forefront of Europe's well documented demographic crisis.

The report found that Latvia suffers both the lowest fertility rate in the EU and has the second lowest life expectency, after Bulgaria.

Latvia's fertility rate is just 1.31 children per woman. All three Baltic states came in below the replacement rate of 2.1, with Lithuania at 1.55 and Estonia at 1.62 children per woman.

Baltics lead EU demographic crisis