Le nascite nell’UE scendono a un nuovo minimo mentre aumentano le tensioni sulle generazioni più giovani
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Le nascite nell’UE scendono a un nuovo minimo mentre aumentano le tensioni sulle generazioni più giovani
https://on.ft.com/3VjJRYK
di kludgeocracy
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> Births across the 27 member states in the bloc fell to 3,665,000 in 2023, according to figures updated last month, the lowest since comparable data was first collected in 1961.
> The figure also represented a 5.5 per cent fall from 2022’s total of births — the largest annual decline on record.
> Europe’s dearth of children is expected to heap pressure on state finances, as working-age populations shrink and the cost of spending in areas such as healthcare and pensions rises.
> “Youngsters have greater difficulty than before to establish themselves in the labour market, in the housing market, and perhaps also in the dating market,” said Willem Adema, senior economist at the OECD. “That is one part of the story which is fairly clear.”
> The trend in people having fewer children is seen most sharply in Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland, Finland and the Baltic states — where births have fallen by at least a quarter over the past decade.
> Adema said governments should prepare for a future of low fertility and consider steps to boost immigration, productivity and levels of labour force participation, particularly among women.
> Testa urged governments to support young people, calling for an “approach where young men and women are helped in several life domains: in education, in the labour market, in mental health and in accessing affordable housing”.
For me it’s not even the economy, it’s the idiots elecring populists and threats of Russia. I genuinely don’t want to have kids unless I am wealthy enough to fuck off to New Zealand or something. It’s just depressing.
Low salaries, houses cost a lifetime of our current savings (when rent isnt almost 90% of your salary) and they expect us to have kids when we can barely sustain ourselves
Well let’s import cheap easily exploitable workforce from the third world and keep them in poverty the same way as the local populace only to massively increase unrest and mutual hatred. What could go wrong?
As long as shareholder value go up the birth rates can go into negatives as far aa they are concerned.
Why is this even a problem, there’s so many desperate Iraqis, Albanians and Syrians looking to come here we can just get them to come and solve our population crisis
Our population is aging fast, we don’t get enough kids anymore, and we don’t want immigrants.
Hmmm, I wonder what will happen…
You don’t have to be a genius to understand that when the labor force starts thinning out fast, while the amount of retirees is growing fast, that thinned out labor force will end up paying more. Much more. But this is something the far-right never tells you. And they don’t tell you, because they don’t have a solution.
Don’t want immigrants? Fine by me. But it comes at a price. A very, very, high price. And younger generations will end up paying for it the most. If we want fewer immigrants, and the vast majority of Europe wants that, then it will cost us a lot. Closing our borders costs a lot of money. I’m fine with that, but politicians should be honest about it, yet they aren’t. They only tell half the story.
I wonder why.
Of course, let’s ensure the housing market remains inaccessible for young people, making it impossible to rent or buy while they struggle with precarious jobs that hinder long-term planning and decision-making
At some point we will have to admit it just ain’t gonna work.
It’s not really surprising that people don’t want to forgo leisure or increase the chance of financial strain. Generous handouts change little. Mass immigration also just transforms the problem.
Sooner or later we will have to address population crisis. If not via social means then via technology. Ridiculous as it may sound it may be time to start discuss solutions that would have been considered sci-fi recently.
politicians: immigration! immigration! immigration!