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Decades of low fertility are causing the French working-age population to fall. Simultaneously, retirees are living longer and forming an ever-larger part of the population. These factors are causing an extraordinary decline in the number of working-age people available to support the expanding number of retirees.

Fertility rates have fallen and stagnated across Europe. By 1980, most countries in Europe had already fallen below the replacement threshold. Now every single European nation is below the threshold. Various reasons have been proposed for this vast decline in fertility, such as the availability of contraception and the increase of women in the workplace.

Decades of low fertility are causing the German working-age population to fall. Simultaneously, retirees are living longer and forming an ever-larger part of the population. These factors are causing an extraordinary decline in the number of working-age people available to support the expanding number of retirees.

The core problem facing the German Chancellor is the unsustainable financial structure of the countrys social security, driven by a shrinking working-age population and the simultaneous retirement of the large baby-boomer generation. Germany operates a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension system, meaning current workers fund current retirees. This model worked when the worker-to-pensioner ratio was high (e.g., over seven-to-one in the 1950s), but it is now collapsing as the ratio approaches two workers supporting every pensioner. This demographic imbalance creates a massive fiscal gap. Proposals to simply maintain current pension levels (e.g., guaranteeing 48% of the average salary) are projected to cost the federal budget an additional €120 billion by 2040, placing an immense, and arguably unfair, burden on younger generations who must finance these costs through rising contributions, taxes, or sovereign debt.

A declining fertility rate is causing Finland’s working-age population to fall. Simultaneously, retirees are living longer and forming an ever-larger part of the population. These factors are causing an extraordinary decline in the number of working-age people available to support the expanding number of retirees.

The core problem facing the German Chancellor is the unsustainable financial structure of the countrys social security, driven by a shrinking working-age population and the simultaneous retirement of the large baby-boomer generation. Germany operates a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pension system, meaning current workers fund current retirees. This model worked when the worker-to-pensioner ratio was high (e.g., over seven-to-one in the 1950s), but it is now collapsing as the ratio approaches two workers supporting every pensioner. This demographic imbalance creates a massive fiscal gap. Proposals to simply maintain current pension levels (e.g., guaranteeing 48% of the average salary) are projected to cost the federal budget an additional €120 billion by 2040, placing an immense, and arguably unfair, burden on younger generations who must finance these costs through rising contributions, taxes, or sovereign debt.

Decades of low fertility are causing the French working-age population to fall. Simultaneously, retirees are living longer and forming an ever-larger part of the population. These factors are causing an extraordinary decline in the number of working-age people available to support the expanding number of retirees.

Decades of low fertility are causing the German working-age population to fall. Simultaneously, retirees are living longer and forming an ever-larger part of the population. These factors are causing an extraordinary decline in the number of working-age people available to support the expanding number of retirees.

Colorado’s state demographer told the Poudre School District board that falling fertility, an aging population and weaker net migration mean Larimer County will face years of declining school‑age population, a trend that will affect district enrollment and planning.

Fertility rates have fallen and stagnated across Europe. By 1980, most countries in Europe had already fallen below the replacement threshold. Now every single European nation is below the threshold. Various reasons have been proposed for this vast decline in fertility, such as the availability of contraception and the increase of women in the workplace.

A declining fertility rate is causing Finland’s working-age population to fall. Simultaneously, retirees are living longer and forming an ever-larger part of the population. These factors are causing an extraordinary decline in the number of working-age people available to support the expanding number of retirees.

City staff told the Water Commission that updated baseline water demands are substantially lower than the 2020 projection, citing slower population growth and weaker drought rebound; six scenarios (including RHNA-driven growth and 'demand creep') will form a demand envelope to guide the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan.

Whether collectively called Africa and Asia, the Global South, developing countries, or simply the poorer parts, there is no doubt that in population terms they dominate the world. - - Asia already accounts for around 60% of the worlds population. By 2050 Africas high fertility rates are likely to mean over a quarter of the worlds population lives there.

The revised data shows that the peak of net migration was in the year to March 2023, reaching 944,000, higher than the earlier estimate of 906,000 for the year to June 2023. Net migration has since fa...

Whether collectively called Africa and Asia, the Global South, developing countries, or simply the poorer parts, there is no doubt that in population terms they dominate the world. - - Asia already accounts for around 60% of the worlds population. By 2050 Africas high fertility rates are likely to mean over a quarter of the worlds population lives there.

Assembly members discuss long-term implications of school closure and community needs for the future.

One month’s birth data in Busan hides the bigger picture: nationwide marriage waves, aging cohorts, and timing effects drove the increase, not local programs.