2025生育率悖论教育是关键研究报告（英文）-安联Allianz.pdf

2025生育率悖论教育是关键研究报告（英文）-安联Allianz。Money can’t buy more children. Among OECD countries, tax breaks, cash benefits and services granted for families and children corresponded to 1.8% of GDP. In the EU-27, the average share of government expenditures spend on family and children has increased from 1.6% in 2001 to 1.9% of GDP in 2023, ranging from 0.8% in Malta to 4.0% in Denmark. However, in many industrialized countries today family and children policy is not only considered an important element in preventing childhood poverty and smoothing consumption, but also as more or less subtle incentive to increase the fertility rate. The unprecedented decline in fertility rates in many countries, calls the targets of today’s family policy into question, suggesting that just spending more money does not necessarily lead to higher fertility rates. This in turn raises the question of whether it would not be more important to focus family policies on guaranteeing that every child has the same chances irrespective of the parents’ income and to push ahead with the necessary measures to adapt labor markets and pension systems to the reality of aging societies. Even more so, if today’s critics of the UN population projections turn out to be right and the world population ages much stronger than expected in the long term.