German birth figures for 2007 have been published. In 2007 there were exactly 684,865 births in Germany (
source). This is a modest increase of 1.8% compared to 2007 (684,865 births in 2007 compared to 672,724 births in 2006), but it's not reaching the level of 2005 when there were 685,795 births, let alone the 1990s when there were on average 790,000 births every year.
The fertility rate figure for 2007 hasn't been published yet.
Here are the number of births in the largest EU countries in 2007 for comparison:
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Country Births in 2007
France 816,500
UK 772,244
Germany 684,865
Italy 563,933
Spain 491,183
Poland 387,873