Riadalom és tennivalók – új népességfogyási vita a régióba
Panic and what to do about it – a new debate in the region about population decline

Summary/Abstract: Previously most societies in Central Europe were confident that if their demographic policies functioned well they could stop their populations from ageing, and maybe even from declining. At least until the end of the 1980s, decision-makers and intellectual public opinion believed that if such policies worked and if families acted responsibly, then demographic changes would be manageable. Since the end of the 1990s, however, it is evident that even non-expert decision-makers are aware that the ageing of society cannot be stopped merely by demographic means. The fundamental debate flaring up again today is about the role immigration might play in the fight against ageing. This forecast for the coming decades was prepared for The Analyst by the director of the Sociological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

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