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Is the birth rate starting to rise? Births rise in the Basque Country after 13 years of decline

In 2025, there were 3% more births than the previous year, the first year-on-year increase since 2011. Demographer Unai Martín explains the reasons and whether this is a short-term issue.
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The annual number of births in the Basque Autonomous Community has not increased since 2011, when, with 21,180 births, it reached its peak since the mid-1980s. Since then, however, there has been a decrease in births, although the trend may have hit bottom. According to the National Institute of Statistics (INE), 13,344 babies were born in 2025, an increase of 3% over the previous year (12,937 years).

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