Which city has the lowest birth rate in the world?
Although the Vatican City is home to approximately 1,000 residents no one is born there. This sounds like a riddle doesn’t it? Unlike most other countries in the world, citizenship in Vatican City isn’t solely provided to people that are born in the country. As there are no hospitals in the Vatican State, virtually no one is born in there. Instead, Vatican citizenship is provided on a ‘jus officii’ basis. This means someone is made a citizen of the Vatican when they are appointed to work in the Holy See. Their citizenship ends when their appointment ends. These Vatican residents are given Vatican passports to use during the duration of their residency.
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22 Comments
teacherchicky
It's hard to make babies when there are virtually no women citizens and the men who live there often prefer young boys!
wok
Which of these countries has an extremely low birthrate?
Wow! Excellent.
Vatican City
2 years ago.
Janet Dawn Baker
Elsy O. Stromberg, it did say in the explanation that there are no hospitals in Vatican State.
Ken Putnam
Why on earth would that be, do you suppose?
Hmm
Christopher Skinner
The Original Sin precludes ROMAN Catholic Priests from having a wife, bit of a double standard when one studies the Bible, especially with all the "Begatting" that occurs almost promiscuously from beginning to end. The Vatican City State is alo, apparently, the only place where Latin is displyed on the Automatic Teller Machine.
Elsy O. Stromberg
Pretty silly. There's mainly men living there who are not supposed to be having sex and they probably don't have a hospital although I'm not sure about that.
Bhavana Agarwal
In fact there are no births even
dmarkc
klmilles, I was going by my last recall of about 2000, but my recall isn't accurate. The important point is my figure is wrong.
klmilles
dmarkc, according to available population statistics, there are 807 people living in the Holy See. 5.5% is around 44. And, no, they do not have the same rights as men in this setting.
David Heinz
Sorry but I do not consider Vatican City a country. City state, yes. Just my opinion.
dmarkc
Albeck1994, I'm sure those 100+ women will find comfort in knowing yet again, they virtually don't count.
Bob Fowler
Now that was a hard one! As the Actress said to the Bishop.😂🤣
Albeck1994
teacherchicky, they go to the nearest hospital think the Vatican is a very small area within Rome
Albeck1994
Ben, No there are others admin staff janitors cleaners etc
Albeck1994
dmarkc, hence the statement Virtually
teacherchicky
Keith Richard Mears, and what happens if one of the priests, bishops, etc. actually gets sick and needs medical help?!