Germany’s birth rate fell to the lowest level in more than a decade last year, adding to concerns about how a shrinking workforce may dent the country’s economic prospects.

Germany’s birth rate fell to the lowest level in more than a decade last year, adding to concerns about how a shrinking workforce may dent the country’s economic prospects.

Figures released Wednesday by the Federal Institute for Population Research (BIB) showed that German women were having 1.36 children on average in fall 2023, compared with 1.57 in 2021.

    • nehal3mEnglish
      18·
      8 months ago

      I know how capitalism works, which is the complaint. If we have to sacrifice a liveable world to make the economy work, then it doesn’t work.

        • nehal3mEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          We live on the same planet, they don’t have a lifeboat. Also, as mentioned by someone earlier in the thread, it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. If we’re gonna live I imagine we’ll have to figuratively eat the rich. Literally if we don’t.