The statistics office said that nearly 715,000 newborns arrived in Germany in 2014, an increase of 4.8 percent on the previous year and the largest number of births since 2002.
The number of new marriages in Germany also increased in 2014 to 386,000 - an increase of 3.3 percent on 2013.
http://www.thelocal.de/20150821/germ...rths-in-decade
it´s worth noting it´s the biggest number in more than a decade and the biggest increase since 1986