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A diminishing population only has negative consequences for an economy in the short term, right? In the end, less people means less money needs to be made to su
by blux 11y ago
A diminishing population only has negative consequences for an economy in the short term, right? In the end, less people means less money needs to be made to sustain a certain standard of living.
- jacquesm 11y agoIt has a huge impact on long term quality of infrastructure and an immediate impact on social security (pensions especially). Infrastructure needs a certain population density in order to be maintained and since countries usually do not give up territory when their population drops the number of people available as a tax bas dictates that if the quantities of infrastructure remain the same that the quality should decrease. Canada would be lot more efficient for instance if it moved all of its population to the west coast but of course that's not an option for many practical reasons.
- jotm 11y agoIt's not diminishing for Germany thanks to immigration...