Az anyai életkorok polarizációs hatása térben és társadalomban – A gyermekvállalási magatartás szélsőségei Európában 2010 és 2020 között

This paper examines the spatiality of fertility behaviors in the European Union at the NUTS 2 regional level between 2010 and 2020. The approach is based on four research directions. Firstly, the study identifies the 11-year change in regional inequalities in age-specific fertility (1), followed by an analysis of the effect of women aged 15–24 and 40–49 on the total fertility rate in 2020 (2). Additionally, the least adaptive regions are highlighted based on the average annual change in the impact of the youngest and oldest cohorts on the total fertility rate (3). Finally, the paper evaluates the extent of fertility-based social inequalities within the regions using the method of so-called modal fertility curves (4). The results reveal a relatively strong regionalization, with Europe’s major geographical macroregions consistently emerging at the NUTS 2 level across all analyses.