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Germany fades.(Scan: Short news and commentary)(migrant workers )
Reuters reported recently that 150,667 Germans left their country for good last year. Over the last decade and a half, around 2 million Germans have emigrated. Experts say that if undocumented migrants are added to these official figures, the actual flows are even higher.
The main impetus for the flow is Germany's stultified economy. Unemployment hovers around 10 percent, and there has been little economic growth in the country for more than a decade. The top destination for German emigrants is the U.S., which has long benefited from German talent (about a quarter of America's white, non-Hispanic population is of German origin).
"I won't go back," says 45-year-old business consultant Karin Manske--one of approximately 70,000 Germans currently living in Southern California. "I love the adventurous spirit here. You can start a business on a shoestring and work hard to succeed."
The outflow of Germans over the last 15 years is the equivalent of about 7 million Americans moving abroad. But it's even more significant because, in Germany today, children are not being produced to replace these adults. Under current German birth rates, every 100 productive adults will leave behind, at the end of their lives, only about 70 children. Start with that population shrinkage from low fertility, then subtract ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Germany fades.(Scan: Short news and commentary)(migrant workers )