{"id":23388,"date":"2020-01-13T08:40:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T08:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=23388"},"modified":"2020-01-13T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T14:49:54","slug":"the-worlds-fastest-shrinking-populations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/the-worlds-fastest-shrinking-populations\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The United Nations warns\u00a0Southeast Europe faces a dramatic population drop.<\/p>\n

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A recent United Nations (UN) study<\/a> revealed that of\u00a0the world’s\u00a0fastest-shrinking populations, 90% of them are located in East and Southeast Europe as poor job prospects and inadequate social services are causing young people to seek opportunities abroad, threatening economic growth in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cFewer children and high outmigration means that populations of the countries of Southeast Europe are getting smaller and older, and unlike in Western Europe, immigration is not being pursued to fill the gap (…) However, a promising way forward for addressing these trends … is to identify strategies leading to strengthening of human capital and thus turning current challenges into opportunities\u201d said\u00a0Allana Armitage, Director of the U.N. Population Fund for Eastern Europe and Central Asia to Reuters.<\/p>\n

Latvia is emblematic of this trend. According to Global Risk Insights<\/a> and Politico EU<\/a>, since accession to the European Union in May 2004,\u00a0it has lost one-fifth of its population. Latvia\u2019s population has steadily decreased from a peak of 2.66 million at the end of Soviet rule, to 2.38m in 2000. Now it has dipped below 2 million. This is a scene replicated in neighbouring Lithuania, which has one of the world\u2019s fastest declining working-age populations.\u00a0One million Bulgarians have also departed<\/a>\u00a0their homeland since the fall of the Soviet Union, predominantly to other EU member states; and the UN projects this could\u00a0continue for many years to come<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Armitage also said that under current conditions it may be difficult to reverse emigration and low birth rates.<\/p>\n

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