• killingspark@feddit.org
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    6 hours ago

    Hm. That doesn’t seem to match this graphic. I heard that on the last “Lage der Nation” Podcast they did. I’ll see if I can find the source the references there

    Edit: found a german source here: https://www.bpb.de/themen/soziale-lage/demografischer-wandel/196643/auswirkungen-des-demografischen-wandels-auf-die-sozialsysteme/

    Weil die Geburtenquote hierzulande aber gut vier Jahrzehnte bei rund 1,4 Geburten pro Frau stagnierte, ist inzwischen jede Generation ein Drittel kleiner als noch ihre Elterngeneration.

    This says every generation is about 33% smaller than the one before it, which would make the ratio stay pretty unbalanced

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      Migration. The 20-30 age group is the most likely to move and a bit older is also the normal age to have children. So basically people move to Germany have children and stay. This makes the entire pyramid somewhat stable. Obviously this requires Germany remaining intressting as a migrat destination.

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        Wouldn’t this be reflected in the pyramid I posted above?

        Afaict migration helps to stabilize the ratio, but is seemingly not enough improve it. To do that we would need to have more migration than we currently do.