
BERLIN, June 30 (Reuters) - More babies were born in Germany in 2015 than in any year since 2000, the Federal Statistics Office said on Thursday, adding however that even more people had died. Europe's biggest economy is struggling with the ageing of its population. The government has introduced more generous maternity and paternity benefits in the last decade in an effort to boost the birth rate. The lifetime birth rate per woman hit a low of 1.25 in 1995 but by 2014 had risen to 1.47. Deaths have outstripped births every year since 1972.