TAIWAN: why is there a 23% decline in babies born (births) in 2022 (May) over May 2021? GERMANY: why is it undergoing a marked and dramatic drop in births in 2022 while prior years were stable?

There were 9,442 babies born in May 2022 which decreased 23.24% compared with the same month last year. What do you think?

Taiwan:

Germany:

Homburg’s tweet below is translated here: ‘Unprecedented drop in births in Q1. In previous years, the births were quite constant, even the lockdown in 2020 left no noticeable traces.’