Slovenia's newborns down last year

The number of Slovenian newborns in 2013 decreased again as compared with the previous year, according to a preliminary statistics by the National Public Health Institute on Saturday. The number of deliveries in Slovenian maternity hospitals decreased by four percent to 20,634 in 2013, which is the first drop below 21,000 since 2008. In 2012, 21,938 children were born in Slovenia, which is only nine fewer than that of 2011. With a population of 2.058 million by 2012, the number of newborns in this tiny Balkan country had been increasing for years until 2010 to 22,002 deliveries.