It’s going to get worse. Kids too expensive and younger folks are now more about quality of life.
Considering our fertility rates for the past decades and emigration, this seems wildly optimistic, unless it takes into account millions of immigrants permenantly settling in Greece
I mean, thanks to freedom of movement people will probably prefer to move from poor Europe to rich Europe.
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The source data is from a UN database linked in the article:
|Rank|Country|Decline 2020-2050|
:–|:–|:–|
|1|Bulgaria|22.5%|
|2|Lithuania|22.1%|
|3|Latvia|21.6%|
|4|Ukraine|19.5%|
|5|Serbia|18.9%|
|6|Bosnia and Herzegovina|18.2%|
|7|Croatia|18.0%|
|8|Moldova|16.7%|
|9|Japan|16.3%|
|10|Albania|15.8%|
|11|Romania|15.5%|
|12|Greece|13.4%|
|13|Estonia|12.7%|
|14|Hungary|12.3%|
|15|Poland|12.0%|
|16|Georgia|11.8%|
|17|Portugal|10.9%|
|18|North Macedonia|10.9%|
|19|Cuba|10.3%|
|20|Italy|10.1%|
It’s going to get worse. Kids too expensive and younger folks are now more about quality of life.
Considering our fertility rates for the past decades and emigration, this seems wildly optimistic, unless it takes into account millions of immigrants permenantly settling in Greece
I mean, thanks to freedom of movement people will probably prefer to move from poor Europe to rich Europe.