France 2022: a narrowing gap between births and deaths

Gilles Pison (1, 2)

1 INED - Institut national d'études démographiques
2 EA - Éco-Anthropologie

Natural increase—the difference between births and deaths—fell fourfold in France between 2012 and 2022, reflecting a 100,000 decrease in the number of births over the last 10 years and a similar increase in the number of deaths. Life expectancy has stagnated over the last 3 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic combined with excess mortality in 2022 linked to several summer heatwaves and a seasonal flu epidemic at the end of the year. It appears that while COVID-19 had little impact on births, it temporarily modified their seasonality.

Mots clés: births; deaths; fertility; life expectancy; mortality; mortality crisis; COVID-19; influenza; heatwave; natural increase; seasonality of births; France

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Gilles Pison. France 2022: a narrowing gap between births and deaths. Population et sociétés, 2023, 609, pp.1-4. ⟨10.3917/popsoc.609.0001⟩. ⟨hal-04048079⟩