Pensioners
According to Serbia’s latest Health Statistics Yearbook – published on March 1 by the Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut Institute for Public Health – Serbia’s population is aging and has reached a record low in birth rates for the past decade.
As cited by the Politika daily, the Yearbook explained that the median age of Serbia’s population increased from 40.2 to 43.4 over the last three years, ranking the people of Serbia as “as one of the ten oldest nations in Europe.”
The report further explained that the number of “women of childbearing age,” i.e. between 15 and 49, has dropped by 2.4 percent – which has not only reduced the potential for more births in the country but has also decreased the number of “actively working individuals” between the age of 15 and 65.
Every fifth Serbian citizen is over 65, the daily stated, adding that, between 2002 to 2020, the percentage of children in the general population dropped from 16 to 14.3 percent.
Population aging has been recorded across Europe. According to Eurostat, the median age in the European Union was 44.4 in 2022, which is two years more than in 2012.
While seniors comprise 21 percent of the population in Serbia, individuals over 65 account for 23 percent of the population in Greece, Portugal and Finland, and a quarter of the population of Italy.
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