Country Birth rate (births/1,000 population) Germany 8.33 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Lithuania 8.62 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Austria 8.81 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Italy 8.89 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Slovenia 8.95 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Latvia 9.04 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Croatia 9.57 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Bulgaria 9.66 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Greece 9.72 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Hungary 9.76 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Switzerland 9.77 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Russia 9.8 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Estonia 9.91 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) European Union 10 births/1,000 population (July 2005 est.) Spain 10.1 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Sweden 10.36 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Liechtenstein 10.41 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Belgium 10.48 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Ukraine 10.49 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Finland 10.5 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Slovakia 10.62 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Romania 10.7 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Poland 10.78 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) United Kingdom 10.78 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Portugal 10.82 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Belarus 10.83 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Netherlands 11.14 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Norway 11.67 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Macedonia 12 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Luxembourg 12.06 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Serbia and Montenegro 12.12 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) France 12.15 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Bosnia and Herzegovina 12.49 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Iceland 13.73 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Ireland 14.47 births/1,000 population (2005 est.) Moldova 15.27 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)