Nationals and Foreigners Fertility in a Crisis Environment, the Case of Greece (2009–2020)

This article provides an overview of fertilityFertility trends during the last decade; a period marked first by the economic and then by the “refugee crisisRefugee crisis” affecting both the intensity of migratory flows and foreignersForeigners’ profile settled in Greece. The analysis employs datasets on births by age and parity of Greek (“nationals”) and foreignerForeigners nationalsNationals (“foreignersForeigners”), a distinction quite appropriate for the study of migrant fertilityFertility. While fertilityFertility of the two components of reproductive age population in Greece declined during the recession, that of foreignersForeigners’ has been much more affected. However, over the past six years (2015–2020), fertilityFertility evolution of foreignersForeigners contrasts with those of nationalsNationals. It is fast and covers all ages. If this increase is partly due to a recovery of births, the determining factor is quite different; i.e. the recent increase of women from medium and less developed countries continues with much higher fertilityFertility than those of foreignersForeigners settled in Greece before the onset of the economic crisisEconomic crisis.