The EU’s most populous country has reversed demographic trends going back decades, with statistics showing that the rise in fertility is almost exclusively down to immigrant women, while the lifetime birthrates among the German population remain static.

On Monday, the German Federal Statistical Office released its official report, stating that German women currently aged between 15 and 49 have given birth to an average of 1.5 live babies during their lifetimes, up from 1.43 last year.

The numbers have been rising since 2012, and the latest lifetime fertility rate is the highest since 1982.

While the fertility rates for German citizens have stayed almost the same as last year – with 1.43 lifetime births versus 1.42, those of foreign citizens who gave birth in Germany climbed, and now differ even more starkly with those of the native population. Foreign women living in Germany gave birth to 1.95 babies, up from 1.86 last year. A replacement lifetime fertility rate, which would allow the population to be kept stable without immigration, is 2.1.

Новите германски граждани нарастват бързо.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Thursday he was announcing his "separation" from the United States.

Duterte made the comment at a business forum in the presence of Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli at Beijing's Great Hall of the People during a four-day state visit to China.