Springtime for Stillbirths in Germany
Winter for women and babies
I just received FOIA’d data on stillbirths in Germany from my friend and colleague, Prof. Christof Kuhbandner and share them with his permission. The picture they reveal is jaw-dropping. The graph below shows the monthly percent change in stillbirths in 2021-2022 compared to the monthly average from 2019-2020:
Comparison with earlier years is problematic because Germany changed the way it defined stillbirths at the end of 2018.1
It really doesn’t matter. The pictures is consistent with this graph on stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Scotland:
The German stillbirth data is also consistent with this graph showing a big decline in German births in the first quarter of 2022:
Here is a troubling table of US monthly birth rates in 2022 compared to 2021 in US states.. https://jackanapes.substack.com/p/springtime-for-stillbirths-in-germany
