Around demography, a political debate which is proscribed to the delivery charge | EUROtoday

Sébastien Lecornu himself agreed on January 13: “The demographic challenge is practically a presidential campaign subject. » Recently, demographic figures have been closely scrutinized by political staff. The announcement, in January, by INSEE, of a birth rate at the lowest level since the end of the Second World War, and of a natural balance which has shifted to negative in 2025, forces the parties to take a position on this horizon: a France in which one in three people will be aged 60 and over by 2030.

Report after report, the observation is clear: the aging of the population, combined with the decline in births, endangers our social protection model, which is based on the balance between active and inactive people. In December 2025, the Court of Auditors called on decision-makers to integrate the demographic trajectory into budgetary debates, highlighting its “profound effects”. The new scenario questions the sustainability of the well being system, raises the query of the employability of seniors and the financing of pensions, using immigration, solidarity between generations, and so on.

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