Key Points

• At 6.9‰, Corsica had the lowest birth rate of all French regions.
• Women receiving State Medical Aid (AME) or the Solidarity Health Supplement (C2S) accounted for 7.2% of the population in Corsica (0.6% and 6.6%, respectively) in 2024, rates well below the national averages (17.4% and 2.5% and 14.9%, respectively).
• Corsica was the second region in mainland France with the highest proportion of women aged 35 or older at the time of childbirth (30.4%).
• It was the French region with the lowest proportion of hospital stays for childbirth involving postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) (6.1%).
• Infants with low birth weight for gestational age accounted for 8.5% of live births, a proportion lower than the national average (9.6%).
• The proportion of infants with high birth weight for gestational age was also lower than the national average (8.0% of live births in Corsica vs. 9.6% nationally).