Demographic Resilience versus Pronatalism
Demographic Resilience versus Pronatalism

Summary/Abstract: During the latest edition of the conference organized by the UNFPA (the United Nations Population Fund) in Sofia, on December 1st-2nd 2021, the main topic put forward for consideration concerned “demographic resilience”. The stated purpose of this ministerial conference was to reframe current discussions pertaining to demographic tendencies so that they would more clearly evidence both the need to adapt current societies to an ageing population and the necessity of providing more efficient support to youth and families who wished to have and raise children, emphasizing neither pronatalism nor sounding an alarm, as current Central and Eastern European public discourse has often done. Likewise, the conference proceedings underlined the need to base population policy on empirical evidence, direly necessary to understanding current demographic changes.

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