Robert Bandanza
September 3rd, 2006, 12:02 PM
Germany | 03.09.2006
Aging Germany Seeks to Prevent a Grayer Future
Germany is getting older, but gray hair and wrinkles are the least of its worries. The younger generations is so much smaller that rural infrastructure, the housing market and equal living standards are at stake.
The demographic decline can already be felt in eastern Germany. In addition to lower birth rates, jobseekers who can't find work there have been taking off and trying their luck elsewhere.
Some five million people lived in the state of Saxony just after German reunification in 1990. Today, there are only 4.3 million people,and in 2020 there are expected to be only 3.7 million, which represents a total population decline of 25 percent.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2149764,00.html
Aging Germany Seeks to Prevent a Grayer Future
Germany is getting older, but gray hair and wrinkles are the least of its worries. The younger generations is so much smaller that rural infrastructure, the housing market and equal living standards are at stake.
The demographic decline can already be felt in eastern Germany. In addition to lower birth rates, jobseekers who can't find work there have been taking off and trying their luck elsewhere.
Some five million people lived in the state of Saxony just after German reunification in 1990. Today, there are only 4.3 million people,and in 2020 there are expected to be only 3.7 million, which represents a total population decline of 25 percent.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2149764,00.html