Moldovans risk disappearing from globe in the next 50 years, says academician Gheorghe Paladi

The low birth rate and high migration in Moldova can lead to the disappearance of the Moldovans as nation in 50 years, academician Gheorghe Paladi told a news conference, Info-Prim Neo reports. The poverty in which the Moldovan people live favor the ageing of the population, reason that makes the young generation ignore the natality. At the end of the 80s, the birth rate was 21 births per 1,000 people. Today, this coefficient in some districts of the country does not exceed 8 births, the academician said. Alexandru Sidorenco, programs coordinator at the UN Headquarters for Population in New York, said that if the country’s administration does not take measures to stimulate natality or nothing will be done to stop the emigration, there will be no one to solve Moldova’s problems in several years. The UN representatives pledged to provide technical assistance to Moldova to solve the ageing problem and to prepare specialists in demography as there are no such in the country at present. “There should be an education institution that would prepare experts in demography, who, for their part, would monitor the demographic process at national level and would make relevant recommendations,” said Oleg Serezhin, representative of the Technical Coordination Bureau of the UN Population Ageing Program in New York. With the support of the UN and in compliance with the Plan of Moldova and of the Council of Europe, there will be worked out the so-called Green Card of Moldova’s demography that will include the results of the demographic researches carried out in Moldova. The conference was organized by the United Nations Population Fund in Moldova.