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Laugh till you cry wrote on Nov 7 th, 2018 at 4:50pm: This photo has less derelict buildings than others in the article. Please forgive me: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2014/11/10/the-steep-decline-of-...[url]https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp-content/uploads/sites /35/2014/11/Depopulation_PASKOVA_030.jpg[/url] Quote:The steep decline of Bulgaria’s population in its post-Soviet era
By Nicole Crowder November 10, 2014
It was the gripping decay of airports, schools, and businesses that once stood as pillars of prosperity that grabbed Bulgarian-born photojournalist Yana Paskova. After the fall of the Berlin wall and communist rule in Bulgaria in 1989, much of the country’s infrastructure and jobs also weathered away, and with them, the population steadily declined over the next 25 years. Paskova recently revisited Kanitz, a small Bulgarian village along the Serbian border to document just a fraction of the impact depopulation has had.
Bulgaria has the most extreme population decline in the world — mostly due to post-1989 emigration — combined with a high death rate and low birth rate. There are so few people of child-bearing age here that population statistics project a 30-percent decrease by 2060, from 7.2 million to just over 5 million. In other words, Bulgaria’s population declines by 164 people a day, or 60,000 people a year; 60 percent of them aged over 65. Experts on distribution of E.U. funds cite the high concentration of investments and resources in certain regions at the expense of others as a contributing factor.
In 2012, depopulation pushed 172 towns to the verge of extinction, and completely erased 24 from Bulgaria’s map. I explored one such village on the Serbian border. Of approximately 50 houses, only three were populated, totaling its inhabitants to six. I was also grabbed by a regional airport, now completely defunct, a former tobacco factory, and an abandoned school. As depopulation further saps the nation of its men and women, these visions of severe structural and industrial decay sadly become increasingly common – and so, with each visit, I witness more and more of my country vanishing.
Photos and text by Paskova. Paskova’s project is supported by a grant from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Another very weak point. You can see that in any country.
England: Over a million households in England are unable to heat their homes adequately, despite having one or more members in work, a leading British think tank warns. Sobering research by Policy Exchange, a think tank working for improved public services and a more buoyant economy, revealed 1.1 million households across the nation are plagued by fuel poverty despite having at least one working individual. This figure amounts to half of all fuel poor homes in England. Policy Exchange’s study indicates fuel poverty is a complex issue affecting a diverse range of people from pensioners to low-income workers. Soaring energy bills and swathes of energy inefficient homes increase the problems. Between 2003 and 2013, consumer gas prices have risen by 128 percent. https://www.rt.com/uk/221099-fuel-poverty-one-million/— Fifth of UK population now in poverty amid worst decline for children and pensioners in decades
Nearly 400,000 more children and 300,000 more pensioners are now living in poverty than five years ago, during which time there have been continued increases in poverty across both age groups – prompting experts to warn that hard-fought progress towards tackling destitution is “in peril”. Another threat to poor households are rising costs, which have seen people in the poorest fifth of the population experience a higher rate of inflation than the rest of the country in every year since 2003 except 2010, the report states. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/poverty-britain-joseph-rowntree-...— The poor children in the UK:
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