Bonn remains a city of birth: 2627 babies in 2024!
Bonn remains a city of birth: 2627 babies in 2024!
At the University Hospital Bonn (UKB was born a total of 2627 babies at 2526 delivery in 2024. In contrast to the nationwide trend, these stable births are in contrast to the nationwide trend.
In 2024, 4 triplets and 93 twin pairs were also born at the UKB. Multiple pregnancies are often associated with increased risks, which is why the UKB offers specialized care for mothers and children. In addition, the UKB looks after many high -risk pregnancies and works interdisciplinary to ensure optimal care.
new care station and birth offers
At the end of 2024, a new interdisciplinary neo-week bed station opened at the UKB. This station enables mothers and their newborns to be looked after, especially in the case of medical monitoring, without having to separate the infants from their mothers. For healthy pregnant women, the UKB also offers a midwife -led delivery room that supports a self -determined and low -intervention. In the event of complications, medical support is available at all times.The first baby of the year 2025, Mailo Martin, saw the light of day on January 1 at 05:55. The small weighed 3,300 grams and was 48 cm tall. Mother and son are well.
A general decline in the number of children per woman has been determined since 2017, but interrupted by a short-term increase during the Covid 19 pandemic in 2021. Between 2011 and 2016, the birth number rose from 1.59.
The average age of the mothers at birth was 31.7 years in 2023, while the fathers were 34.7 years. Compared to 2021, the age of the mothers has decreased slightly, while the fathers have constant values. The average age of the parents has increased continuously since 1991, with mothers being 27.9 and fathers 31.0 years old in 1991.
The declines in the birth number show a stabilization of the number of children per mother in two children and an increase in childless women. The final childless rate rose from 11 % (born in 1937) to 21 % (born 1966). In 1968, the number of children per woman with 1.49 children reached a historical low, whereby women of the 1970s until 2023 born more children than the women of the 1968 vintage. Those who tend to be younger have also contributed to improving the overall fertility.
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