2023.02.15 11:25
In 2022, Latvia recorder lowest birth number in century
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Provisional data compiled by the Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia show that birth number keeps declining: 15,535 children were born in 2022, which is the lowest number recorded in the past hundred years and 10.8% or 1,885 children fewer than in 2021.