Posted on 11/09/2006 4:08:03 PM PST by shrinkermd
Berlin (dpa) - Germany's population could fall to 69 million by 2050 with the proportion of elderly people sharply rising, a report by the Federal Statistics Office said Tuesday.
Germany currently has 82.4 million people but declining birth rates will reduce the country's population to between 69 million and 74 million by 2050, said the report.
"The population decline cannot be halted," said Walter Rademacher, the statistics office vice-president.
Both the decline and ageing of Germany's population are expected to impact on the economy because there will be fewer people in the working age between 20 and 65 years.
At the end of 2005 about 20 per cent of the population was younger than 20 years and 19 per cent were over 65 years. The remaining 61 per cent were potential members of the workforce.
By 2050 only half the population will be workforce aged, while 30 per cent will be over 65 and just 15 per cent under 20 years, the report predicts.
I guess the German men have no balls.
Many of the younger Germans are going to leave the country if the load becomes too great, thereby making the problem even worse.....
I thought that the floodgates of the East filled 'em up.
The remaining 61 per cent were potential members of the workforce.
Maybe they should send half of them home to have babies. Dumb bunnies!
You HOPE they'll come visit you when you're old. I work as a nurse aide in a home and I can tell you that most do not come to visit :( The rare exception is this one lady that had six children and they come most every day to see her. I just wonder if they have the time to come to a home why they can't take care of her at home. Everyone is busy busy busy. I used to want children, A LOT but it's costs money to raise children. I rather not raise a large family the way I see other women raising families. A lot of the women around here have a lot of kids fast and young then get really fat and old EARLY, it's so sad.
I worked in nursing homes when I was young...and though it is not always true because circumstances beyond control sometimes prevail, one gets the old age one deserves.
Have a flock of children...breastfeed and lose weight (just keep the outgo more than the intake) and be active with them while you are young.
I agree with you wholeheartedly.
She's cranking out those babies just not in Germany.
Cyborg! How are you?
Most excellent. Procrastinating, avoiding my housecleaning duties :D
I just started reading Mark Steyn's America Alone on election night. Read it and weep
"The population decline cannot be halted,"
The Germans have forgotten how to do nookie?
The Germans believe in nothing of consequence.
Not socialism: paternalism. The Democratic Party and much of the Republican party wishes to keep the population is a permanent state of dependence.
Once they get all the women in their burqas they will have more babies. It works for the Mooslims.
You my friend are the problem. A person does not become happy through money and personal attainment. You need to return to conservative values or always be disappointed in your life.
Exactly right. A teacher who taught the German equivalent of grade school told me that part of his responsibility was to teach his students not to 'over reach'. The kids should be happy with where they were and what they could do - competition was bad and fostered bad feelings. It seems to have worked.
Yet, we have a number of German friends - who get their social security payments and live in Florida, Arizona, Texas, etc. and complain about how backward and crass Americans are. But they'd rather be here than have to worry about getting treated for their diseases and health problems in Germany. (To say nothing of not having to worry about the Islamist young folk and their 'pranks'.
Amen to that.
"Even if this troubles a few conservatives here and there."
Doesn't trouble me much at all. Those who want to Darwinize themselves are welcome to do so. Freedom to succeed after all does imply freedom to fail.
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