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Around 773,000 children were born in Germany in 2020.
According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), that was around 5000 fewer children than in the previous year (minus 0.6 percent).
This continued the decline that began after the last sharp rise in the birth rate in 2016.
The 2020 vintage is still one of the five strongest birth cohorts in the last two decades (since 1999).
The birth rate in 2020 as a whole was apparently not affected by the corona pandemic.
It could be different with the number of deaths.
This increased significantly in the first Corona year 2020.
Around 986,000 deaths were registered, 46,000 more than in 2019, according to the Federal Statistical Office.
This corresponds to an increase of five percent.
The registry offices were also closed
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"Part of this increase is due to calendar and demographic aspects," explained the statisticians.
"2020 was a leap year, so that the additional day results in an increase of around 3000 deaths compared to the previous year."
If the previous trend towards increasing life expectancy and the previously foreseeable shifts in the age structure of the population were also taken into account, an increase in deaths of around one to two percent would have been expected.
Around 373,000 civil marriages were also registered, 43,000 or ten percent fewer than in 2019. The decline in April was particularly strong at around 37 percent, after registry offices had been closed or only opened to a limited extent since mid-March 2020 due to the corona pandemic.
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The number of same-sex couples marriages also fell in 2020.
Although it fell by 29 percent, this was mainly due to a decline in the conversion of registered same-sex partnerships into marriage.
The number of newly concluded marriages between same-sex persons, on the other hand, fell by a similar magnitude as the number of marriages as a whole (minus nine percent).