The State Statistical Committee of Azerbaijan told, 170.500 children were born in 2014, making up 18.1 per 1000 people. The newborns are 53,6% male, 46,4% female. 3,148 children were born twins, 60 triplets. 55,600 deaths were recorded in the country in 2014, constituting 5.9 per 1000 people.
The life expectancy for the new born babies was 74.2 years—71.6 for males, 76.8 for females.
Another ratio is 2.2 children per women capable of giving birth throughout their lifetime. This ensures reproduction of the country’s population.
Turkey comes in next at 16.8 per 1,000 and Ireland follows closely behind at 15. The UK is close to the top of the list with 12.2 per 1,000.
While at the bottom with just 7 per 1,000 people is Portugal after Estonia, Greece, and Italy at 8.5.
The mortality rate also declined in Italy last year, stretching life expectancy for Italian men to 80.2 years, and to 84.9 years for women.
Developed countries the world over are counting the cost of an ageing population, such as rising pension payouts and healthcare costs, but Italy, now in its third recession in six years, is particularly vulnerable.
Italy`s birth rate has dropped to its lowest in more than 150 years amid a sluggish economy.
Fewer babies were born in Italy in 2014 than in any other year since the modern Italian state was formed in 1861, new figures have revealed.
The government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is scrambling to give the economy a boost by reforming the sclerotic labour market and persuading the country`s youth not to migrate and work abroad.
The demographic picture varies wildly between Italy`s regions, with the autonomous northern area of Trentino-Alto Adige enjoying a total fertility rate of 1.65.
The population is shrinking in most of the poorer south, where per-capita gross domestic product is about half that in the centre and north.
