Similar trends, different problems
The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data on Australia’s population composition and whether its population has grown in the last 12 months paints a positive picture of the country’s population growth. However, things are not quite as a shallow look at the data recommends.
In Greece, the demographic reality is so grim that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis himself said: “Demographic collapse is becoming an existential gamble for our future”, while referring to a “national danger in progress”.
The real picture in Australia
In the last 12 months, Australia’s population has seen a record increase of 624,100 people to over 26.6 million (a 2.4% increase). However, this increase is due to the huge volume of immigrants entering the country.
The so-called ‘natural population growth’, i.e. the number of births minus deaths, has fallen to its lowest level for more than two decades! Deaths rose by 3.6% and births fell by 4.1%.
The tragic demographic situation of Greece
Births in Greece have been gradually declining over the last 67 years. In 2022, the last year for which the Hellenic Statistical Service has a complete statistical picture, births were down by 10.31% compared to the previous year.
Deaths, which amounted to 2.82 million in 1994-2019, are estimated to range from 3.40 million (unfavourable scenario) to 3.25 million (favourable scenario) over the next 26 years (2024-2049).
Low birth rate: A problem for the West
As demographer Byron Kotzamanis notes, “Changes in the value system across Europe have moved us away from the traditional family model of years past. New values and new models of a limited family began to spread in our country, marking a drop in the scale of priority both morally and socially.” Of course, something similar happened in Australia and in Western countries in general.
As a “solution” a positive immigration balance is proposed in 2024-2049 (1.0 to 1.3 million more inputs than outputs). It is the ‘solution’ that seems to ‘save’ Australia, as the data cited above attests.
But is this the path that Greece should follow?
To scaremonger by talking about the “conquest” of Greece by races of different ethnic, religious, cultural, etc. origins is not scaremongering of a nationalist and reactionary type. It is a conclusion that is reflected in the statistics. It is a reality that fits perfectly with the ongoing Australian identity but, according to many, is leading to the certain “death” of the Greek race.
