Demographic decline: Greece faces alarming population collapse

Empty villages, disillusioned young workers, and government officials scrambling for solutions: this is the stark reality Euronews uncovered in Greece, where the country is bracing for a major population collapse fuelled by plummeting numbers of births, mass emigration, and low fertility rates.

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[csanadvarga]

dont worry the 6 day work week will help Greece to collapse faster. 6 day work week with 11% unemployment a joke

[cravingtuna]

"Mr Primeminister our population is collapsing and no one wants to have kids. How should we respond?"
"Increase the working hours"

[DomnulSarb]

>Population: collapsing
>Land and house prices: skyrocketing

Something isn't adding up according to a little concept known as "supply and demand"

[nickjacobs]

No surpises. I live here. After 10 years of economic depression and class war against the population, people cannot afford kids. People cannot even afford to have relationships. The working class is tired, impoverished and angry, with no end in sight.

[r.c.]

nothing helps birthrates like high housing prices, low wages and high working hours

[homyce]

A Canadian friend of mine born in Canada to Greek parents. He speaks the language on a native level, visits Greece once a year, obsessed by his homeland too much that the furniture of his apartment is all in blue and white. He even goes to the Greek Orthodox church every Sunday! Despite all this, he has been waiting for years to get Greek citizenship, which he wants to move there permanently. Then they complain about declining population!

[村上りんね]

Same in Japan. There are just elders in rural areas.
Only Tokyo is continuing to soak up young people as nutrients.

[JobzeyJobzey]

Meanwhile many Greeks who live in Post Soviet countries are waiting for years to get chance to get Greek Citizenship, process is taking 10 years, if you want to attract immigrants, then first give chance to Greeks from Diaspora to come to Greece.
I've applied for citizenship since 2015, up untill now process is going, during covid the ministry didn't even worked properly.
Greek Bureaucracy is main reason for this

[phoenixhenson]

I think its the Politicians fault for raising the cost of living so much for locals while they live in a bubble unaffected

[Pajaa]

this video literally could have been made ANYWHERE in Europe….

[vasts]

Low wages, expensive rents, high bills, lack of investments, 6 day working schedules, constant deterioration in public education and health care, unemployment and a government which is not only useless but also does not give a sh!t and pretends to wonder why the young well educated Greeks seek their future abroad, or even if they stay in Greece, will have just one child because they cannot support financially a bigger family. And all of this after 15 years of looting the Greeks with taxes, low cost labour and sell outs of public property (airports, public businesses, harbours, natural resources, etc). Greece is not only struggling with demographics, but with poverty, anxiety and depression.

[fridaber]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Make it affordable to have kids and have decent standard of living and we will have kids. The biggest reason people are delaying kids is wage stagnation coupled with astronomical real estate costs. People just don't have financial security anymore.

[ssergium.]

An 8 day work week would probably help!

[twlee]

6-day workweek doesn't help either

[CreativeCrumbles]

You know what’s crazy… we have more billionaires now than ever… so it’s not a lack of resources, it’s a few people hoarding most of the resources

[richardsheppard]

In Greece an empty derelict house is advertised for 60-100k euro while the same property in Northern Italy woll cost you 1 euro. They rather hold out for crazy unrealistic prices so the villages die out. Shame.

[godtable]

My grandmother once told me, that we are rich compared to them in the past. And I told her she has no idea of the wealth she had in her hands back then. They didn't have almost any money, that's true. But they had freedom and a community supporting them. Most of the houses back then were build by family and relatives. Most had a piece of land and some animals to sustain themselves. And as a cherry on top, at my grandparent's village they had a tradition of caring for the elders and unable to work. The did that by Gothenburg the strongest men of the village and have them working on fields dedicated to the community with extra hours of work. I don't know if it's better or worse, but it's certainly different.

[Thom_Yorky]

Just returned from Crete last night. My relatives are having the same problems. Low pay, work many hours, and their kids are going to college with the hopes of moving for a better life.

[mohammedabdullah]

The real population of Greece is not 10 million, but less than 8 million, a third of whom are elderly, as the number of births last year was 70k

[matrixberzins]

It's a problem not only for Greece but for all of Europe! Some will say that countries like Ireland, UK, France, Germany and few more don't have such problems - but they have - the birth rate is low and they keep up they demographic only with immigrants from Africa and Asia!