Human overpopulation

A special parliamentary committee sounded the alarm Tuesday over Greece's shrinking population, stressing the need for measures to boost birth rates and to ensure "healthy aging" so as to minimize pressure on the health and social security systems.

According to a demographics report it presented in Parliament, Greece's population could drop to as low as 8.3 million people by 2050.

A special parliamentary committee on Tuesday presented a report on Greece's demographic predicament which foresees the country's population shrinking to as low as 8.3 million people in 2050.

Fertility rates in Greece, that is, the average number of children Greek women have, dipped from 1.5 to about 1.3 during its eight-year economic crisis (2008-2016), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its World Economic Outlook, issued on Wednesday.

A bleak future lies ahead in terms of demographics, according to the Hellenic Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology, which projects that Greece's population by 2050 will be older and reduced by anything between 800,000 and 2.5 million people. 

The US Business Insider published a paper devoted to ten countries with serious demographic problems.

A special place in the material is also dedicated to the demographic crisis in Bulgaria.

The population of Bulgaria, the European Union's poorest member, may soon become as low as it was in the aftermath of World War II, Bloomberg reported.

Turkey's total fertility rate, the average number of live births that a woman has, fell to 2.07 per woman in 2017, according to data released by Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK).

About 20 to 25 percent of the Bulgarian population will disappear by the year 2040 - this is what the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences forecasts for the demographic development of Bulgaria, the study will be presented by the government at the parliament.
 

They are also offensive to women, Mihajlovic, who is a member of the Coordinating Body for Gender Equality, and of the Government's Council for Population Policy, said on Wednesday.

These slogans "publicly shame women" and show a lack of understanding of their role in Serbia, but also of the demographic circumstances, she said.

The number of births in China fell last year even though the world’s most populous country has relaxed its one-child policy to allow all couples to have two children.

Figures shows that the country's population grew to 82.8 million in 2017, more than 3 million higher than in the numbers announced in December 2016. Along with the population increase, marriage and divorce rates also rose in Turkey, Daily Sabah writes.