New Year Babies - Boys in Rostock and Greifswald Arrive Quickly - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania faces an 8% drop in births during 2025

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania saw a decline in births during the first nine months of 2025. Provisional data recorded 6,403 deliveries, marking an 8% drop from the same period in 2024. Hospitals in the region are now anticipating a rise in numbers for 2026. In 2025, Rostock’s Südstadt Hospital delivered 1,997 babies, including 50 sets of twins. Greifswald University Hospital followed with 677 births, among them 28 twin pairs and one set of triplets. Together, the two hospitals accounted for over a quarter of all births in the state that year.

The first baby of 2025 in Rostock arrived at 12:46 a.m., weighing 3.74 kilograms and measuring 51 centimetres. In Greifswald, the second newborn of the year was born at 1:02 a.m. and was named Elias.

Historical figures show that 2024 had 9,157 births in the state, slightly above the previous record low of 8,934 in 1994. On 1 January 2026, two baby boys were born in the region just after midnight. Maternity wards across Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are preparing for a potential increase in deliveries in 2026. The region’s birth numbers have fluctuated in recent years, with hospitals monitoring trends closely. Early data for 2025 already indicates a notable decrease compared to 2024.