According to calculations by the German Economic Institute (IW), the number of people in work has currently reached its highest level. From now on it will steadily decrease. This emerges from a study by the German Economic Institute (IW), which is available on t-online. According to the calculations, the working-age population aged 15 to 64 will fall from 53.1 million today to 50.1 million in 2035. These figures already take into account an assumed annual net immigration of 420,000 people by 2023 and 320,000 people per year by 2035.
“We are heading for a dramatic situation,” said study author Holger Schäfer t-online. In order to cushion the forecast decline, an annual increase of 400,000 employees is needed. If you take into account that more than a million people in Germany emigrate every year, almost 1.5 million people would have to immigrate every year. At the same time, Schäfer warned: “We have to say goodbye to the idea of only bringing fully trained specialists to Germany. Whether qualified or unskilled: We can be happy if enough people immigrate at all.” They could also be trained here on site.
