La Demografia no és la culpable

Authors

  • Tomàs Vidal i Bendito

Abstract

The future collapse of the Welfare State is being blamed on pensions and low fertility, which is just bad demographics. Europe has evolved from high to low fertility and mortality rates. Low mortality is not so much the result of ageing as of saving infant lives. In fact society is younger not older today, with 25% of the population under 20, 15% over 65, and 60% in economically productive ages. Europe is not an aged population and Welfare State problems cannot be blamed on this relatively low' proportion of aged and youth that society must maintain. Future projections are highly unreliable, depending on immigration, which invigorates society as happened in low, birth rate Catalonia. Problems with the Welfare State are of an economic, not a demographic nature.

Published

2005-11-23

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