Germany : In 2050 every 3rd person will be 60 or older in Germany

The quantitative relation between older and younger people will change considerably in Germany in the next few decades. As envisaged by the most recent co-ordinated population projection of the Federal Statistical Office, half of the population will be aged over 48 and one third be 60 or older in 2050. Besides, the number of inhabitants in Germany will decline in the long term despite the assumed rates of immigration from abroad. This was reported by the President of the Federal Statistical Office Johann Hahlen in Berlin today when he presented the results of the Office’s 10th co-ordinated population projection until the year 2050. Today, Germany has about 82.5 ;million inhabitants. In accordance with the « middle variant » of the population projection which the following results are based on, the population figures will – after a small increase to 83 ;million – decline from 2013 down to the 1963 ;level (slightly more than 75 ;million) by the year 2050. The « middle variant » is based on the following assumptions: constant birth rate of an average 1.4 children per woman, increase in the life expectancy of a new-born boy to 81.1 ;years and of a new-born girl to 86.6 ;years by 2050, and an