Abstract:
Overpopulation is a major social problem in developing countries on other continents and Europe is experiencing a demographic decline. The effects of the expected process are, on the one hand, related to the ageing of the population and, on the other hand, to the accompanying shortage of adequately qualified workers. The ageing of the population entails additional, enormous costs for the functioning of social policy, as more and more people remain in post-working age. These people not only do not work, but receive pensions in pay-as-you-go systems, i.e. those in which the working generation pays pension contributions, financing the payment of current pensions. It is expected that in 2060 there will be only two people of working age per person of post-working age. All this is on the one hand the result of the growing average life expectancy of the population. A high level of economic development in the EU promotes the efficient use of modern healthcare and proper nutrition.
