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"According to Eurostat, none of the EU Member States has a positive population replacement rate. Only a few, including Great Britain, France and Ireland, have steadily increasing populations. In truth, some say that the European countries characterised by population decline – Germany, Italy and Spain – have reached the point of no return in demographic terms. According to some demographers, these countries have fallen into a ‘low fertility trap’.
The reasons behind a low birth rate are the fact that not having children and families with just one child is becoming the norm and this results in the cultural institutionalisation of ‘zero growth’. In the developed world, delaying having children is among the main causes of the low fertility rate, while access to contraceptives has allowed the adult population to exercise greater control over when they have children. Ever increasing numbers of men and women are aiming first of all to establish themselves at work, putting off having children until later.
We are already aware of the many, possibly dramatic, repercussions of population change. I would like to point out one, which is a liability for our national economies: the ageing of the population. The result of this is that an increasing number of old people depend on an increasingly meagre workforce."@en1
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