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. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2005-11-23 Issue Vol. 13 (1996) Section Articles License Aquesta obra és subjecta —llevat que s'indiqui el contrari en el text, en les fotografies o en altres il·lustracions— a una llicència Reconeixement - No comercial - Sense obres derivades 3.0 Espanya de Creative Commons, el text complet de la qual es pot consultar a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.ca. Així, doncs, s'autoritza al públic en general a reproduir, distribuir i comunicar l'obra sempre que se'n reconegui l'autoria i l'entitat que la publica i no se'n faci un ús comercial ni cap obra derivada.
