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Fewer children, older population, Serbian minister warns
Increasingly fewer women are choosing to have children and the population of Serbia is getting older, Minister Slavica Djukic Dejanovic said on Thursday.
The Serbian government’s web site quoted her as saying that 1,000 less women gave birth to a first child in 2017 compared to 2016, adding that emigration of young people is one of the causes of the problem.
The state has to deal with those migrations of young people of an average age of 28, the minister in charge of >> Pročitaj celu vest na sajtu N1 televizija << population policy said. She said that one fourth of the young people leaving the country have university educations.
We can’ t stop migration but we have to improve communication with those young people who leave the country and so that they will share their knowledge and experience with us here after they achieve their professional success abroad, she said.
The average age of the population of Serbia today is 43 compared to age 33 in 1967, the minister said.
