Out-of-wedlock births in the Nordic countries, 1700s to now https://t.co/slwTAuDQ5N
Out-of-wedlock births in the Nordic countries, 1700s to now https://t.co/slwTAuDQ5N
‘Well, it’s the usual suspects: Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden. The countries where childcare is properly subsidised, where ring-fenced, properly paid paternity leave means dads are far more likely to take time out to care for their children, and flexible working is the norm for all employees. In these countries, mothers report far higher levels
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I don’t believe this is the case, but Sweden does appear to be sitting on a demographic time bomb. It is the only country in the world in which people over eighty years old make up more than 5 percent of the population (the global average is 1 percent). Almost 20 percent of Swedes are over sixty-five, making Sweden the oldest country in Scandinavia
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- Declining birth rates
- Inversion of population pyramid
- E.g., Japan