2016 continued a six-year streak of negative natural population growth. The outgoing 2017 has bleak prospects in this regard as well, given that in the first ten months the negative population growth reached 16,050.
In 2016, 37,537 children were born, whereas 51,542 inhabitants died, which means that there were nine births per 1,000 inhabitants and 12.3 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants.
Data on births and deaths are based on the systematic collection of information entered into the state registries of births and deaths.