Posted on 01/13/2009 3:32:32 PM PST by GOPGuide
PARIS (AFP)
France cemented its status as Europe's fertility champion on Tuesday when fresh statistics showed women are having on average more than two children each, an increase from last year's birth rate.
The second most populous country in the European Union after Germany, France began 2009 with 64.3 million inhabitants, 366,500 more than in 2008, according to the national statistics agency INSEE.
While there are fewer women of child-bearing age in France, the birth rate has continued to climb, with 2.02 children on average born to every woman in 2008, up from 1.98 in 2007.
Last year, more than 800,000 babies were born in France, the highest number in three decades, confirming the success of the country's family-friendly policies.
State-provided child care and family support payments are well-established while labour laws provide for generous maternity and parental leaves, encouraging young couples to become parents.
The average European birth rate is 1.5 children, with France and Ireland at the top of the fertility list.
Like in many other western countries, French women are having babies later in life, starting usually at age 30, nearly two years later than in the 1980s.
Birth rates are up in the 30-40 age group and more than one in five babies were born last year to a woman over the age of 35. In 1998, older women accounted for only 16.5 percent of births.
Since 2006, more babies are born out of wedlock in France and the trend is continuing. Some 52 percent of newborns were born to unmarried couples in 2008, a full 10 percent more than in 1998.
Longevity in France remains high with men living on average until the ripe old age of 77.5 while women usually make it to their 84th birthday.
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It ain't a pretty picture.
Only because France has the highest population of Muslims.
Yup
It’s not Muslims, they are only 7% of the population.
How many of these plenteous babes are born to Muslim couples?
Just turn the Eiffel Tower into Europe's tallest minaret.
that was my first thought.
Did I miss the Muslim reference in the article?
Ping
It’s nonchalance, not vanity, that makes French women sexy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/04/france.gender
Seven percent of 64.5 million is, what, about 4.5 million. They can produce an awful lot of those 800,000 babies.
Muzzies breed like rabbits!
It is not readily knowable what percentage of all residents of France are Muslim, or how old they are. My understanding is that the Muslim residents of France are younger on average than the others and that they have more children than the average and start having children younger. Thus their contribution to present and near-future population growth may be much greater then you might expect just from the 7% figure.
That's more than enough to cause a demographic, cultural, moral and intelligence shift in the population...
America is a startling example of the shift possible from a minority of only 12%,
That was my question; are they actual Froggies, or are the future Jihadies?
In my opinion, the ugliest most unattractive women I have EVER seen were in from France and the UK. I’m not saying all are like this.. but the ugliest ones, in my opinion, were encountered in these two countries.
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