The event is witnessing the second fastest fall in the fertility rate in France.
Only Corsica is more, because many young people leave the island for job opportunities on the mainland.
Catherine Sord, from the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), told the BBC that the rate rate occurred by 8.5 % in 2023, compared to 6.5 % of the national level. Is
Ms. Sord says that this fall is even faster in women between the ages of 24 to 35, which are usually the most fertile.
He says women are delaying having their first child over the previous generations and are later in long -term relationships in life.
At the same time, the current economic uncertainty is weighing on the minds of the youth.
Ms Sord says the same uncertainty during the 2008 financial crisis also had a huge impact on fertility in France and Western Europe.
The number of primary school children in Colomers has decreased by 10 % in the last seven years.
Zavar Vuller Victor Hugo works in educational management at Secondary School. He and his Spanish wife, Nolia, have only one child, 12-year-old Paulo-and will not change.
“My wife was very keen to get a personal career … so that she can get the same opportunities as I am like a man, so we took time to have a baby and just one,” said Zavar.
He added that the number of falling students will be felt in his own school in a few years as the low number of primary school children moves to secondary schools.
This image is similar in French rural areas, where the fertility rate was high. According to government statistics, this is no longer the matter.
