According to Geostat, over the past five years, the overall birth rate has been declining. It should be noted that in 2020, a negative natural increase was observed, ie the difference between the number of live births and deaths was set at 4,017 units.

At the same time, according to the agency, in 2020, 16,877 children were born in unregistered marriages, which totals 36.3% of live births.