Demographic economics

Bulgaria is expected to have the world's highest population decline rate between 2015 and 2050, a UN report shows.

According to the latest figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), which were published on Friday, the Bulgarian population decreased by 0.6 % in 2014.

The population measured 7 202 198 people at the end of 2014, which represented a decrease with 43 479 people compared to 2013.

AGERPRES special correspondent Florentina Peia reports: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said that there mustn't be "an undifferentiated" attitude concerning the migration from Romania to Germany and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said that "poverty migration" isn't significant from a numeric point of view, showing that our country is confronted with a difficult phenomenon, namely

Internal migration made Turkey. Families packing up and leaving their hometowns was one of the major building blocks of our growth model. But no more, according to the new World Bank report on Turkey’s transitions. Turkey is now reaching its limits regarding urbanization via internal migration.

Life expectancy at birth has risen in Greece to reach 80.7 years compared to an EU28 average of 79.2 years, according to a new OECD report.

An oasis of prosperity in struggling Europe, Germany is now the favored location for immigrants on the continent, who continue to skirt crisis-hit southern states, the OECD said in a report Dec. 1.
 
Germany has become the main destination for people freely moving between European Union nations and is also the world's largest recipient of new asylum seekers.

After Croatian education minister Vedran Mornar said the country should tackle its ‘brain drain' problem by obliging state funded students to either stay in the country or return the money, students responded by saying that the government should create job opportunities instead.

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A recent research by the Migration Observatory at Oxford University reveals that 1.3 % of Eastern Europeans living anywhere in Europe, including in their native countries, are now residing in the UK.

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By Roula Salourou

The demographic threat is evolving into one of the social security system’s biggest, both in Greece and the European Union in general.

The latest EU report on the bloc’s aging population showed that the prospects are particularly concerning in Greece, as the current ratio of one over-65-year-old for every three people of working age will shift to 1:2 by 2040.

The explosion in the world's ageing population presents herculean challenges for health systems, especially in poorer countries, the UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Nov. 6.
      
As people live longer, the need to care for long-term, age-related health problems will grow, it said.