According to the State Statistical Office data, the number of live births recorded in the fourth quarter of 2020 increased by 4.8% compared to the same quarter of 2019 and it amounted to 4 935 live births.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the late submission of reports from some of the regional registry offices for the previous quarters, the number of deaths in the fourth quarter of 2020 increased by 89.1% compared to the same quarter of the previous year and it amounted to 9 465, of which 12 were infant deaths.
The natural increase was - 4 530 persons, representing the difference by which the number of live births is smaller than the number of deaths.
The number of marriages registered in this quarter of the year was 2 689, a decrease of 19.7% compared to the same quarter of 2019.
