Presentation Gender Equality B

3. FAMILY CHANGESSmaller households, more people living alone: In 1961 the EU-15 had92 million households with an average of 3.3 persons perhousehold; by 1995 the figure had risen to 148 million with theaverage per household at 2.5 persons (Daly 2005)Between 1980 and 2003 the total fertility rate in the EU-25 fell from1.88 to 1.48. Duncan 2002: „Germany, Italy and Spain show thelowest ever recorded completed fertility rates while, in‚women-friendly‘ Sweden and Denmark, birth rates are amongthe highest in western Europe“For the EU-25 the crude marriage rate fell from 6.7 to 4.8 between1980 and 2003The crude divorce rate per 1,000 population increased from 1.5 in1980 to 2.0 in 2001.