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According to data from the Department of Statistics, during the last 25 years 883 thousand people left Lithuania and did not return to the country. our citizens.
According to the former Minister of Health, Professor Gediminas Černiauskas, these figures do not promise anything good, since it is recorded that the number of people leaving the country continues to grow in the last six months.
Gruzhevsky: In the future, there will be more people of retirement age than workers.
According to Professor B. Gružveskis, Lithuania is the oldest country in the world: “Not only in Europe, but also in the world,” he says.
Therefore, according to him, it must be taken into account that in order to collect pension income, the country needs to ask itself the question of whether we have enough taxpayers to achieve this objective.
“When the generation I represent leaves, the situation in Lithuania will stabilize. We can only stop this with the help of migration,” he says.
According to the professor’s calculations, if 15 thousand people leave the country every year. of citizens of working age, it will be observed that the number of people of retirement age is increasing every year, although the percentage of people who work and retain the state is decreasing. “It just came to our knowledge then. When 30,000 people come to us, it is a well,” says B. Gruževskis.
Half emigrate due to low income
According to the data provided by B. Gruževskis, most of the compatriots who emigrated mention that they left the country because they received very little income there: “50 percent. all emigrants ”, says the teacher.
The other 25 percent. notes that the desired job could not be found and that 15% leave due to unsatisfactory wages.
“In fact, there is no work and the wages are low. People could work as engineers, electricians, but the salary is not satisfactory and indicates that there is no work, although the real reason is low income, ”says B. Gruževskis.
The remaining 25%, according to the professor, points to other reasons for emigration – studies, career, family, etc .: “This point is difficult to avoid, because it is an expression of a normal, healthy, European life.”, Says B Gruževskis. This last point does not indicate that the conditions for those who have left are not good enough in Lithuania.
How many can return to Lithuania and how to do it?
Practice has shown that we can have 20 thousand more. population, says B. Gruževskis.
“And those 20 thousand. It is a clear political indicator,” he said.
This objective, according to him, can be achieved by promoting immigration on four principles: diaspora, re-migration, attraction of talent, attraction of highly qualified labor force.
The first point is that the diaspora, according to the professor, is already in use, but it does not have much impact: “Those who wanted to return have already returned,” he says.
Re-migration is the most promising element. The re-emigration method is expected to attract more than 100,000. citizens returning to Lithuania.
“In fact, from the first and second points we can get 90 thousand. in the period until 2026, if the situation does not deteriorate and we maintain the microeconomic stability that we have today in Lithuania ”, says the professor.
The talent attraction program would not attract much, but this method is very necessary for investments and the internal recovery of the country: “Virtually all countries have a very strong program at this point, Lithuania does not have such objectives,” says B. Gruževskis.
The last point is to attract highly skilled labor from foreign countries.
The professor pays special attention to the program for Belarusian and Ukrainian citizens.
“We have a lot of highly skilled workforce. There must be comprehensive assistance: bills, accommodation. You need to work differently with Ukraine, so the principles should be different. You need to institutionalize with it,” he says.
“The longer people stay abroad, the less likely they are to return.”
According to the professor, the simplest way would be to attract to Lithuania people who live in foreign countries for up to 5 years. Probably between 30 and 40 percent. citizens would return to Lithuania if they were provided with favorable living conditions.
People who have lived abroad for more than five years or who have a family abroad are less likely to recover. It is likely that even if all the conditions are created for them, only 10-15% would like to return to Lithuania. our compatriots.
“The longer people are abroad, the less likely they are to return,” says the professor.
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