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Inside Europe - Why Germans are choosing to be childless

John LaurensonAugust 19, 2015

A recent study published by the Hamburg-based World Economy Institute says the German birthrate dropped to 8.2 babies per one thousand people over the five years from 2008 to 2013. The lowest in the world. So why is the German birthrate so low? In Munich, John Laurenson has been trying to find out.

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