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Germany's population decline 'cannot be halted
Expatica ^ | 8 November 2006 | staff

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.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: demographics; depopulating; eurabia; germany; gloriesofsocialism; steyn
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To: Lee N. Field
The Germans have forgotten how to do nookie?

Good grief, who wants to get banged by a skinhead.

41 posted on 11/09/2006 7:13:15 PM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: shrinkermd
Well, it could.

(1) Abandon socialism. This leads to...
(2) Economic boom.
(3) Then: Large tax deduction for children.

Problem solved! No such thing as can't, it is won't.

42 posted on 11/09/2006 7:20:32 PM PST by Plutarch
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To: shrinkermd

Whadda frigging stupid article.

Germany's population decline cannot be halted? Bullsh@t!

If every fertile woman in German had 4 kids... then their population would boom.

So it is possible to fix this problem.

Therefore it CAN be halted.

(Germans just don't WANT to halt it.)


43 posted on 11/09/2006 7:32:35 PM PST by gogogodzilla (I criticize everyone... and then breathe some radioactive fire and stomp on things.)
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To: dr_who_2

...or that all of Germany's real men were killed in the World Wars, leaving only duds to propogate the race.


44 posted on 11/09/2006 7:47:44 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: cyborg
...and they're not German either.


45 posted on 11/09/2006 7:54:57 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: shrinkermd

Sounds like some good real estate should be already starting to become bargains.


46 posted on 11/09/2006 7:58:06 PM PST by Wuli
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To: .cnI redruM

O.K. you get the Wuli chuckle of the day prize; and thanks.

With the good laugh you provided I can now go put some mindless comedy movie in the video machine and fall asleep to it. (No TV allowed since the morning of election day. I can't watch the Dims on TV for a good month after any election they win; the nausea is real and extreme. So, doctor's orders - no TV for awhile). Nite. And thanks again for the chuckle.


47 posted on 11/09/2006 8:04:32 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Not national anyway...they're half German.


48 posted on 11/09/2006 8:17:59 PM PST by cyborg (No I don't miss the single life at all.)
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To: Prodigal Son
I think the world is an exciting and interesting place- I'm pretty optimistic about it. But I don't have the time for kids.

I think you hit the nail on the head. I think it has to do a lot with cultural distractions. People who immerse themselves in culture tend not to have time for kids. But people like the Amish who deliberately shun culture have about nine kids per woman.

In America we shouldn't worry about population decline. Even without immigration we have diverse enough population that will fill the spaces left by those who choose extinction. Hutterites, Amish, Mormons and other Christians will make up the difference. In Europe, the Muslims will do the same.

49 posted on 11/09/2006 8:35:36 PM PST by Dan Evans
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To: shrinkermd
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.

That is truly unbelievable. Europe's social security system will be dead and buried long before then.

Longevity is an increasing problem for the EU that seemingly has been solved by immigration.

Indeed. But at what cost to Europe's security and pluralistic culture?

50 posted on 11/09/2006 8:41:54 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: shrinkermd

They dropped themselves into this, they're gonna have to find some new people.


51 posted on 11/09/2006 8:55:49 PM PST by Kitten Festival (No on Proposition 87 in Calif - A tax hike on you to help Hugo Chavez)
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To: shrinkermd

btt


52 posted on 11/09/2006 9:30:59 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: Prodigal Son

Your wife has no idea what she is missisng out on. I had everything, and nothing made me happier than having children. My selfishness turned into love. It does have to do with faith. Everything changes.


53 posted on 11/10/2006 2:39:00 AM PST by mgist
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To: Prodigal Son
If she were to have a kid it would just derail her career.

Boo Hoo!

But it just might give her life meaning!


(Psst.... return to your father ;^)

54 posted on 11/10/2006 4:16:37 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: shrinkermd

Fly me over and line me up with a dozen young Fraueleins and I'll do my part to help this terrible situation.


55 posted on 11/10/2006 4:56:06 AM PST by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: shrinkermd
Historians have wondered for a long time why the population of ancient Rome collapsed and got replaced by the barbarians.

Now we know.

56 posted on 11/10/2006 5:44:49 AM PST by A. Pole ("Gay marriage" - Karl Rove's conspiracy to defeat Democrats?)
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To: shrinkermd
"The population decline cannot be halted," said Walter Rademacher, the statistics office vice-president.

Cannot or will not?

Seems to me a fairly easy problem to fix, theoretically. More sex = more babies = no population decline.
57 posted on 11/10/2006 5:46:34 AM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: shrinkermd
"The population decline cannot be halted," said Walter Rademacher, the statistics office vice-president.

Sure it can. The Moslems will show them how.

58 posted on 11/10/2006 5:51:48 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Wuli
Yeah, it was a maalox moment....
59 posted on 11/10/2006 6:25:59 AM PST by .cnI redruM (2008 is another day and another battle.)
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To: cyborg

There are no guarantees when raising children, but if you raise them with love, respect and discpline, they will eventually come back to the place they started, home.


60 posted on 11/10/2006 9:14:44 AM PST by fatez
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