(Bloomberg) -- Move over Japan. Germany now has the world’slowest birthrate, and its economy is poised to suffer as aresult.

Germany recorded about 8.3 births per 1,000 citizens in the fiveyears through 2013, less than Japan’s 8.4 and the U.K.’s 12.7,according to a study released on Friday by consultants BDO AG andthe Hamburg Institute for International Economics.

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