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The birth rate in Sweden is low and falling. Whatever they're doing to keep demography sane doesn't seem to be working. Like most developed Western countries, t
by nradov 2y ago
The birth rate in Sweden is low and falling. Whatever they're doing to keep demography sane doesn't seem to be working. Like most developed Western countries, their current approach relies more on high levels of immigration. Essentially they have outsourced the hassle and expense of having children.
https://population-europe.eu/research/policy-insights/why-are-birth-rates-sweden-falling https://population-europe.eu/research/policy-insights/why-ar...
- fifilura 2y agoIt is true. But that also means that the cost will not be there. I'd claim it did work for some time (from the 1970s to the 2000s) because it allowed the transition to a society where women did not have to choose between children and a career. I am not sure what is the reason for lower birth rate now. Maybe that young people have gotten used to that you always have a choice.
- piva00 2y agoRelatively to the rest of Europe is still on the upper echelons so some of the policies do work. The issue is: without hope for the future there's not much the State can do to push people into having kids. We live in an age of hopelessness, I don't have my parents optimism from the 80s, I'm starting to approach 40 and every 5 years something happen to chip away on the little hope I still have.