The National Institute of Statistics
\n(INS) has confirmed the warning signal it issued last December after the
\npublication of a yearly report on Romania’s demographic dynamics comprising
\ndata on the number and the structure of population as well as on its natural
\nand migratory displacement. On Monday the INS announced that 3000 less
\nchildren had been born in November than in October, while 520 more dead had been reported. All in all, the natural
\ngrowth was on a negative trend and the population decreased by more than 7000
\npeople in a single month. <\/p>\n
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The number of children within a family has also
\ndiminished as more and more women nowadays decide to have children when they
\nare older, the number of marriages has decreased, while divorces are on the
\nrise. The process of depopulation has stepped up in the past 25 years after the
\nfall of the communist dictatorship, being triggered by the opening of borders,
\nwhich eased migration; about three million Romanians are currently living
\nabroad. Although the migration phenomenon has lately diminished, it made a
\nsignificant contribution to depopulation because most of the migrants were
\npeople with ages between 25 and 34, which heavily bore on the birth rate. After
\n1989 the number of Romanians dropped from 23.2 million to 19.9, completely
\nreversing the situation back in the communist time when an abortion ban led to
\na demographic growth of 26%. <\/p>\n
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Of course the INS president Tudor Andrei
\ndisapproves of the brutal intrusion of the communist state into the family
\nlife, explaining that such rapid effects could be obtained only in totalitarian
\nsystems. Romania’s modernization process also entails a series of negative
\ndemographic phenomena the Western societies already dealt with in the past
\ndecades. However, according to Tudor Andrei, there are western countries, like
\nFrance for instance, which has seen a population growth of 13% in the past 25
\nyears. The INS president looks into the causes that made possible such a growth
\nrate. <\/p>\n
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Tudor Andrei: There are fiscal measures directly targeting people with
\nchildren: building more kindergartens and other facilities in which children
\ncan get education at the same time allowing parents to have an active life
\nshortly after the birth of a child; there is also a third category of measures
\nsuch as tax exempton applying to certain categories of families.<\/p>\n
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In turn, the director of the Centre for
\nDemographic Research of the Romanian Academy, Vasile Ghetau said that a survey
\nshould be conducted among young people in order to find out why an increasing
\nnumber of couples did not want children anymore and what might convince them to
\nreconsider their decision. <\/p>\n
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