What do you think about the average age of your country
Posted by mikewazoski59@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 53 comments
Posted by mikewazoski59@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 53 comments
Helium116@reddit
Handmaid's tale came to mind looking at this map
eleutheromaniann@reddit
europe is very old.
shaikann@reddit
Count out the immigrants and its ancient
Salt_Fennel8876@reddit
Old as a cathedral!
Icy-Temperature377@reddit
especially when you google random countries in Africa, or check what our avg age was 100 years ago...
kalin23@reddit
I mean.. the medicine is so good at keeping you ill but alive, not so good at healing, but still the leap we have as civilization for the last 100 years is huge.
Radusili@reddit
My biggest fear is that there will soon come a day when the majority of the population will be in that semi-senile state that you reach soon after 50 and will fuck us young people up.
Some Japan level thing
No-Championship-4632@reddit
On the good side, wars will be less likely, aging populations don't tend to wage wars.
Te6kiGomna@reddit
Yea, they get conquered...
sstopggap@reddit
I'm of the opposite view, so many war enjoyers I know are 60+
Big-Vegetable4550@reddit
Well, sure. It’s not the 60+ people they’re going to send to the front lines, is it? (At least I hope not…)
Excellent_Jeweler_43@reddit
Quite the contrary, young people dont want to wage wars, old people are starting them though. Its not Putin, Trump or Netanyahu fighting on the frontlines yet they are very happy to issue invasions of foreign countries
Big-Vegetable4550@reddit
Soon after 50! Why you young whippersnapper, I oughta teach you a thing or two. Wait - what was I saying?
EmperrorNombrero@reddit
It iS like that in germany already.
Burtocu@reddit
In what way is Japan senile?
Radusili@reddit
Unwilling to change outdated principles even if they are ridiculous
Burtocu@reddit
sadly that's also happening here and has been happening even with young people
Halimandes@reddit
I guess they call it "The Old World" for a reason.
Beautiful-Dish-6275@reddit
Its pretty bad, on the flipside, the birth rate rose up last year and looking at the data it will increase this year as well so thats progress ig.
john_parker_alpin@reddit
Vabbe pensa all'italia che la mammina bionda diceva di riempire le culle🤣 1,14 figli. Di sto passo faranno il cicognificio!
DieserEineDude@reddit
Immigration pays off
Big-Vegetable4550@reddit
Not always - I was 67 when I moved to Croatia! 😂
Maligetzus@reddit
we went from 1.48 tfr to 1.49, going strong!
missmccreate@reddit
idgaf tbh
Inevitable_Motor_685@reddit
Grandpa Italy
task_machine@reddit
Fr in the south you see only old people complaining at the sky while the young ones usually emigrate
Volaer@reddit
Median =/= average
Icy-Temperature377@reddit
In this case it does not matter as much as in, for example, salary.
A lot less range between ages 1-75, than 0-1 billion $$$.
Several_Score_4278@reddit
I thought the Balkans were young
hubbabubbameqershi@reddit
They are, but younger people move abroad.
Several_Score_4278@reddit
It is taken from the statistics of their country. It doesn't change the situation if they work elsewhere
hubbabubbameqershi@reddit
Not in this particular sense. What I'm trying to say is that generally speaking the ethnic population is still young
Fred_Neecheh@reddit
I think that my country is slowly dieing off but no one cares because everyone else is dieing off as well. Its only the poorest countries who remain with a healthy TFR at this point
Substratas@reddit
Serbia seems quite fertile.
Fred_Neecheh@reddit
Its all under 2.1 tho. All of Europe at this point I think.
dinozavarr@reddit
Nah It’s just because people live better and longer now
Educational-Goal3785@reddit
Im not a fan of the current goverment, thus I will say that my country is dying, no births, young people are going away.
On the other hand, if I liked them I would say this is great as life expectancy is higher which indicates higher living quality.
Substratas@reddit
The median age in Albania is 44.3 years.
Source | Institute of Statistics Albania
hubbabubbameqershi@reddit
Because of immigration, we have a pretty young population if we don't count immigration.
spallettioutista@reddit
If in Italy we have the meme "vietato scopare" (literally, "prohibition tò have sex") this is the reason
crivycouriac@reddit
Italy’s fertility rate has been below 1.5 since 1984, the longest anywhere in the world
ImpressiveMud9539@reddit
Having kids is too expensive, unless you already own a house
ImpressiveMud9539@reddit
Let's lower it by having kids
Additional-Penalty97@reddit
Dont worry, we are getting there
alkorisno@reddit
All young bulgarians left once they entered the EU, in frew years that will create such a demofraphic crisis Bulgaria will cease to exist
neckke@reddit
Turska najzdravija jbt
crivycouriac@reddit
Unlike other Eastern block countries, we don’t have straightforward natural decline since the 1990s
So instead, this took a toll on our median age
FuckTheCake@reddit
Why do Slovenians breed like rabbits?
abandonedtulpa@reddit
What is that supposed to mean? Other post soviet countries with population decline since the fall of the Union have similar median ages to Slovenia.
crivycouriac@reddit
That’s a recent phenomenon. A few years ago, Slovenia was comparably even older than most of them.
smurfk@reddit
Had no idea there were people living in Mediteranean Sea. That's interesting!
Fred_Neecheh@reddit
I come from the sea people, how ignorant of you
Lothronion@reddit
I think that a population decline might be a good thing, given how by this point the Paris Climate Accord's target of only increasing 1.5 °C in the average global temperature has been failed, and it is expected to reach about 2 °C by the mid-21st century AD, if not more for a couple of decades, considering the existence of an overshot as well (surpassing a certain threshold before decreasing back). It is expected that with 2 °C at the least 10% of crops will fail, and that is assuming there wont be a runaway greenhouse effect due to knocking over a bunch of tipping points, so I really wonder how larger countries with many tens of millions of people will fair, especially in dry areas, such as Turkey and Egypt.