EU POPULATION FALL – HIGHER EDUCATION IMPACT EUROPEAN COMMISSION
June 1st, 2006
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
FIGURES from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat have shown how sharply some populations in Europe will fall by 2050, potentially creating serious excess capacity in higher education institutions. Germany and Italy illustrate this most starkly. Eurostat projects that Germany's 2005 population of 82.6 million will fall to 74.6 million in 2050; and while there were 58.2 million Italian residents in 2005, there will be just 52.7 million in 2050. And it is the education sector that will be hit first and hardest, because in ...
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