{"id":18307,"date":"2026-07-27T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/live-births-in-greece-edge-up-to-15946-in-q1-2026-elstat-reports-greek-city-times\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:01:00","slug":"live-births-in-greece-edge-up-to-15946-in-q1-2026-elstat-reports-greek-city-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/live-births-in-greece-edge-up-to-15946-in-q1-2026-elstat-reports-greek-city-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Births in Greece Edge Up to 15,946 in Q1 2026, ELSTAT Reports \u2013 Greek City Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"G\">\n<h3 id=\"h-greece-recorded-a-slight-rise-in-live-births-during-the-first-quarter-of-2026-according-to-provisional-data-released-today-by-the-hellenic-statistical-authority-elstat\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Greece recorded a slight rise in live births during the first quarter of 2026, according to provisional data released today by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT).<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A total of <strong>15,946 live births<\/strong> (8,184 boys and 7,762 girls) were registered between 1 January and 31 March 2026. This marks an increase of 57 births, or <strong>0.4%<\/strong>, compared with 15,889 live births (8,182 boys and 7,707 girls) in the same period of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stillbirths fell to 96, a 3% decrease from the 99 recorded in Q1 2025.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-monthly-breakdown\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monthly Breakdown<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compared with the first quarter of 2025:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>January: +2.6%<\/li>\n<li>February: \u20132.9%<\/li>\n<li>March: +1.2%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"h-greek-vs-foreign-mothers\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Greek vs Foreign Mothers<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ratio of live births to Greek mothers versus foreign mothers improved to <strong>9.5 to 1<\/strong> in Q1 2026, up from 8.9 to 1 a year earlier.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"h-regional-picture\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Regional Picture<\/h3>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Births rose in seven of Greece\u2019s 13 administrative regions (based on the mother\u2019s place of permanent residence). The largest absolute increases were recorded in:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Thessaly (+62)<\/li>\n<li>Peloponnese (+56)<\/li>\n<li>Central Macedonia (+31)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The steepest declines occurred in:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Central Greece (\u201381)<\/li>\n<li>Attica (\u201332)<\/li>\n<li>Ionian Islands (\u201331)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data remain provisional. Late registrations will be incorporated in future updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) monthly births series, released 27 July 2026.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<\/footer><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/07\/27\/greece-live-births-q1-2026-elstat\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece recorded a slight rise in live births during the first quarter of 2026, according to provisional data released today by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). A total of 15,946 live births (8,184 boys and 7,762 girls) were registered between 1 January and 31 March 2026. This marks an increase of 57 births, or 0.4%, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Live Births in Greece Edge Up to 15,946 in Q1 2026, ELSTAT Reports \u2013 Greek City Times\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/live-births-in-greece-edge-up-to-15946-in-q1-2026-elstat-reports-greek-city-times\/#more-18307\" aria-label=\"Read more about Live Births in Greece Edge Up to 15,946 in Q1 2026, ELSTAT Reports \u2013 Greek City Times\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/baby.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}