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PARIS Often Europe s birth rate champion, France just registered the fewest annual births since the end of World War II.
Only about 735,000 babies were born there in 2020, a 2.5% decrease from 2019, as birth rates in December 2020 (down 7%) and January 2021 (down 13.5%) plummeted from the same months a year earlier.
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