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Antanas Guoga, member of the Labor Party faction of the Seimas, Vigilijus Jukna, the eldest of this faction, Andrius Mazuronis, the vice president of the Seimas, Viktoras Fiodorovas, Vaida Giraitytė, Mindaugas Puidokas, Vytautas Gapšys, members of this faction, who started them , registered the amendments to this faction, who initiated them.
They hope that the adoption of the proposed project will improve the demographic situation in Lithuania and increase the birth rate.
The authors of the project note that the demographic development of Lithuania has changed significantly over the last quarter of the century, the population is rapidly declining. Although the scale of emigration has decreased in recent years, Lithuania, according to the “working class”, is among the countries with the fastest demographic disappearance not only in Europe but also in the world.
“Birth rates and increased life expectancy are changing the age pyramid of the Lithuanian population: children, young people and middle-aged people are declining rapidly. The Financial Times (FT) ranked the 20 countries with the biggest percentage declines by 2050, based on demographic projections regularly published by the United Nations, which estimate how the world’s population will change in the coming decades. Lithuania ranks second on this list, ”says the explanatory note to the document.
Observe that the population of Lithuania during 2010-2019. decreased by 347.8 thousand. – by more than one tenth.
“The proportion of people of working age in Lithuania is decreasing and the relative number of people of retirement age is increasing. In the coming decades, the proportion of older people in the total population will increase significantly due to the increased availability and quality of health care services, the increasing range of nursing services, etc. This will increase the burden on people of working age, who will have to bear the social costs of accessing a range of services in an aging society.
Not only did the number of people of working age decline, but also the number of people aged 0-15. population ”, point out the authors of the project.
According to them, the birth rate in 2019 in the country is 27.4 thousand. babies (of which 24.1 thousand (88.1%) were born in Lithuania, 3.3 thousand in foreign countries), the number of children born 20 years ago reached 34 thousand. 100.
According to A. Guoga, the number of children under 15 years of age has not decreased in the last four years in only eight of the sixty municipalities, but has increased in only two major cities: Vilnius and Klaipeda.
Under the current Child Benefit Act, each child born receives a lump sum child benefit of 11 basic social benefits. This year it amounts to 429 euros, and in 2021 this benefit will increase to 440 euros.
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