Thursday, April 13, 2006

Lebensraum; I've got your Lebensraum

I don't think this is quite the Lebensraum they were looking for, but they have it now.
BY 2030, people over 65 in Germany, the world's third-largest economy, will account for almost half the adult population, compared with one-fifth now. And unless the country's birth rate recovers from its present low of 1.3 per woman, over the same period its population of under-35s will shrink about twice as fast as the older population will grow. The net result will be that the total population, now 82m, will decline to 70m-73m. The number of people of working age will fall by a full quarter, from 40m today to 30m.
Some pictures of Europe's future here.

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