Next year is the last year that Europe's population is set to grow, as it is expected to start declining in 2026, with just one in 25 people living in the EU by the turn of the century, statisticians ...

The fertility rate has plummeted to 1.10, far below the replacement rate of 2.1. Women are delaying marriage and having ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In February 2025, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced that mothers with two or more children would be exempted from income tax ...

Europe’s demographic challenges are becoming a ticking time bomb for the region’s economy, with Morgan Stanley delivering a grim prediction for its effects on GDP. Morgan Stanley says Europe’s aging ...

[Vienna, August 26 2024] – Since the end of the last Ice Age, growth of human population was far from uniform, marked instead by periods of rapid expansion followed by sharp declines. The reasons ...

EUROPEAN residents far outnumber Spaniards across entire swathes of Spain’s southern coastline, new data has revealed, as ...

Let’s start with a very simple truism: You can’t have prosperity without people. Human beings are the most valuable resource, because it is human ingenuity that creates, captures, and cultivates all ...

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vol. 21, The causes and consequences of depopulation (2023), pp. 69-80 (12 pages) Much of East Central Europe today faces the double challenge of having a ...

A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, has shown that Europe has adapted better to low temperatures than to high ...

France’s civil Maginot Line has just been crossed. The government has essentially fallen. Massive budget deficits, way over European Union limits, forced the Macron government to propose spending cuts ...

(CNN) — The oldest known plague victims date back to around 5,000 years ago in Europe. But it’s never been clear whether two cases, one in Latvia and one in Sweden, were isolated and sporadic or ...