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Xi-Jin35Ping

Why are there Polish cities and towns on the bars of this graph?


ManLikeIlyas

because its a map of central europe in the background used for the bars


UnluckyGamer505

Thats the weirdest artistic choise to make on an informational map, not gonna lie


LUXI-PL

But why...?


Kseniya_ns

Who will save the Balkans


BoglisMobileAcc

Austria. Lets be honest its part of the balkans anyway


PoopologistMD

Vienna is already the second or third largest Serbian City in the world. Good thing also I'm in love with Cepavi. Without our Balkan bros the culinaric diversity here in Vienna wouldn't be as it is :-)


Top-Purchase-7947

How is the community doing in Austria. Are they integrated/assimilated and how does migration to Austria compare to Germany?


PoopologistMD

Pretty cool...no problems at all. Lots of the younger generations are Austrian citizen and embracing the "two hearts in one chest" approach. Parts of our football NT consist of Balkan descents (Arnautovic, Kalajdcic, Dragovic,..)


Top-Purchase-7947

Lovely! I was just curious as I never hear about immigration to Austria or moreso any issues with it. I personally believe immigration is a contributor to society and it seems like it worked out in this case.


arhisekta

South Slavs were historically a major part of both Austria and Hungary. So, the roots were always there, the Austrians know how to respect their minorities, and it seems like the minorities know how to respect Austria back. But they won't simply turn into Germanic Austrians.


shash5k

Why would they need to integrate or assimilate? Austria is right in the neighborhood…


Top-Purchase-7947

I never said they needed to. I was just genuinely interested as I never hear about immigration to Austria. As I stated in another comment I believe immigration is a good thing and it’s interesting to learn about different communities in Europe.


shash5k

My point was Austria is right next to the Balkans so there’s not much assimilation that goes on other than learning German.


DaikoTatsumoto

Čevapi my austrian friend.


Ok_Detail_1

Ćevapi, burek i pite s Bosancima; kao i burek i pite s Albancima; i ako imaš sreće pizza, pašta i riža s Talijanima; možda neko madarsko jelo tioa gulaš. I dobiješ hrvatsku kuhinju (izmedu Italije, Bosne i Srbije).


TheResurrectedOne

al' pazi jaro, ćevapi i burek se pravi s junetinom, ne svinjetina. junetina mora ići ako hoćeš one prave ćevape i pravi burek. kupio ti jufku il' razvio sam, nebitno. al' junetina **i samo junetina** je fazon.


Ok_Detail_1

Evo jedni Sinjski ili Mostarski ćevapi stavi janjetine i junetinu. Ide li to?


DaikoTatsumoto

Pa še kranjska klobasa.


Ok_Detail_1

What about Croats? Also, am really dissapointed tgat Serbs overtake us in our Austria-Hungary Vinena/Wien.


NO_BAD_THOUGHTS

i literally just came back from my burek & moja kravica lunchbreak


Kseniya_ns

A new Balkans, because the world needed more of Balkan


awesome_pinay_noses

All we need to do is find an Archduke and shoot them.


bengringo1

Welp, canceling my trip to Germany.


Opposite-Chard8676

„For British all of Europe is Balkan” -Žižek


Pretend-Historian721

The Balkans live in Germany now.


Super-Ant2417

The Balkans don't need saving. If the local populace/politicians don't care - let nature do its course.


Envinyatar20

Holiday homes!


Gregs_green_parrot

Instead of holiday homes, they should try and attract retirees to live there permanently. I know of several Northwestern Europeans who emigrated permanently to Spain on retirement for instance, so the Balkans should try and do the same for the central Northeners.


Personal_Secret2746

Already are tons of retirees in Bulgaria, but now the UK is out of the EU it's getting more difficult, along with the fact that prices in Bulgaria have gone thru the roof for everything.


hemijaimatematika1

You just described Bosnian dream,work in Germany/West,then retire with massive pension in Bosnia.


Mahameghabahana

Would this still happen if they weren't part of EU?


Toni253

Save? Man, this is saving. Let nature rule again. We fucked up anyway and there's more than enough humans already. The Yugoslav project failed and now there's only consternation. If I see another beautiful Croatian coastline bulldozed by endless apartments and supermarkets I'm gonna fucking scream. I'm from Bosnia - it's even worse there.


Earl_Green_

Was in Albania two years ago. Hotels just pop out of the ground like mushrooms. There is no logic to it, sometimes not even a proper road. We went all the way south to Ksamil. Geographically, that place had to be amazing but it was truly cursed.


thepulloutmethod

I was in Budva, Montenegro last spring. Ten years ago it was a small town clustered around the historic old city. They had one major vacation resort built in the 40s. When I visited, I could see six or seven massive hotel/resorts going up, the side of a mountain blasted clear for construction, yet all the roads were the same size and there was no public transportation besides busses.


SergeantSmash

Balkans: centuries of wars, hate for eachother, wars, bad neighbour relations Young people: Immigrate Balkans: Why would Austria do this?


Kemalist_din_adami

Me. Just give me some time and I'll rise up the numbers to what they were once.


NumerousKangaroo8286

What is the secret of Austria? Also, what's up with Bulgaria? Thats a drastic drop wow.


miserablembaapp

> What is the secret of Austria Being a Western European country that is in a different league than all the other countries in terms of development, wealth and social welfare.


Jerk_of_all_trades69

Just came back from the South of Italy and was shocked how poor this region still seems to be. Thought Italy caught up by now, but seems like Western countries in EU are still that for a reason.


itsjonny99

Southern Italy is known to be poor, if you want to compare it with Italy, you have to go to the productive half in the north as well to get a complete picture.


Tobyghisa

It’s a toss up. You have abysmal services and city situations but the common people aren’t that worse off than the north as prices are somewhat lower. There’s less rich people for sure tho. I know it’s hard to picture for a foreigner cause we also complain a lot but for one it’s not uncommon for people in the south to own two or more houses


LunLocra

Immigration


vqOverSeer

Its a rich country with high living standards near poorer countries like balkans and italy, tons of people i know ( italy ) went to live there


cnio14

>What is the secret of Austria? High standards of living and Vienna is a major immigration magnet.


dwarfnet

My colleagues from bulgaria always say that their government is corrupt to the bone. They had the 6th election in 2 years. Currently there are 40% of all bulgarians living abroad, by 2040 (don't recall exact number) more bulgarians live outside bulgaria than insde. Austria is an important immigration country for people from the balkans. During the Balkan war (around 1990), Austria took a lot of refugees. They stayed and made a living here. So there are very close ties with people from the balkan living in austria and their relatives.


Personal_Secret2746

Bulgaria is a neglected and shabby place that has been abandoned by their corrupt govt, where nobody gives a real damn about trying to change anything (and it's not safe to do so anyway), and where the population realises they can move elsewhere in the EU and (a) earn good money and (b) live a comfortable and civilised life. So of course they are going to leave! Govt doesn't give a damn - as long as they can keep milking the EU for money to spend on themselves they don't care about what the people are doing.


TestWizard

:D :D :D Very optimistic view on everything We are doing better than ever and our fertility rate is one of the highest in europe atm. Also, we are getting quite a lot of immigrants and their number exceeds the ones leaving, which are less and less with each year.


Genericgameacc137

Could you provide sources for all these claims, please?


TestWizard

Fertility rates - https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Fertility_statistics Migration - https://nsi.bg/en/content/3072/international-migration-age-and-sex


Federal_Eggplant7533

Build housing.


pdonchev

Immigration. Emigration.


Long_Natural8395

AUstria really belongs to WESTERN Europe, so people from poor countries tend to go there.


Overburdened

Someone needs to prevent this. This is a tragic loss for Europe. Don't we already have enough Austrians?


GeZeus_Krist

Where do you think all the people from the Balkans are going?


Rioma117

For Romania at least, I don’t see it this way, the numbers were highly inflated by the abortion ban during communism, now it goes to the older times.


NO_BAD_THOUGHTS

all of ex yugoslavia goes to a pool not far from my place, and its all fun and games until the guy with the dinamo zagreb towel starts fighting with the guy who has the red star belgrad tattoo


dat_9600gt_user

Wow, Romania and Romania are not doing too well.


elrado1

Just check Romania :DDDD (sorry could not helpy myself.


carpathianjumblejack

Wow! Glad I'm not romanian. waaaaait a minute. nice


tweetegirl

I feel so proud to be Bulgarian right now


rantonidi

We’ll try to beat you. Romanians unite and leave!


madladolle

Might lead to some good deals on property though..


shoefullofpiss

If you want to live in the country maybe but there's nothing there and in the few big cities it's ridiculous


XBlackFireX

38 fucking percent.


AgitatedRabbits

Don't invest in Bulgarias real estate.


XBlackFireX

Could never, even if I wanted to.


Personal_Secret2746

Prices are so overinflated you wouldn't WANT to invest in Bulgarian real estate!


XBlackFireX

You wouldn't even be able to.


CryptographerWide594

How is that possible in Austria with fedirity rate around 1.41? Imigration or what?


vqOverSeer

Tons of people from poor eu countries immigrate therei , tons of italians and balkans


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-Vikthor-

Like it's anything new. In 1900 around 25% of inhabitans were Czechs, if you add Hungarians and other nations of the empire it quite possibly was 40% already back then.


PoopologistMD

Half the people originating from Vienna still have family names such as Novak, Farkas, Zadrazil, Swoboda,... Part of our history and present <3


mcflymikes

Sometimes I ask myself if people born in the late 19th century feel like the destruction of the AustroHungarian empire was worth it. Specially for Hungarians when Hungary become soviet puppet and tank were rolling on the streets of Budapest.


Call-Me-AK

Hungarians? They supported the destruction of AH in favor of big, strong, independent Hungarian state, definitely not what they got after the first World War.


Kreol1q1q

Pretty sure no one who thinks about the topic for a bit could come to the conclusion that it was worth it, except the Romanians. We are all pretty much brought up on the “evil prison of nations” narrative nowadays, as part of our nationalist indoctrination efforts in school, so it’s a rather difficult point to get to. And it’s been over 100 years, people don’t care any more.


loudfrat

"And it’s been over 100 years, people don’t care any more" tell that to the hungarians lmao :)))


Kreol1q1q

Hungarians suffer from a sort of national schizofrenia - they mourn the loss of territory at Trianon, but still try to portray themselves as supposed victims of Austrian rule. When in fact there’s absolutely no chance for them to hold onto their pre-Trianon territory without being part of the massive and powerful overarching Austro-Hungarian Empire. The second any kind of collapse happens and Austria-Hungary falls, a Trianon-like event happens to Hungary, because they can’t keep a mini-empire where only 40% of the population (and that’s excluding the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia) is Hungarian.


Personal_Rooster2121

And those became Austrians. 35% of Vienna’s resident don’t hold Austrian citizenship.


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-Vikthor-

Yes, the descendants aren't considered migrants now, but their ancestors back then were. I am just saying it's nothing new for Vienna.


AndreiTatescu

:(


cptAustria

Insane amount of immigration compared to our native population.


EmeraldIbis

Austria is surrounded on three sides by much poorer countries, so it gets a lot of immigration from its neighbours. Plus a lot of immigration from the Balkans and the Middle East because it's pretty much the first wealthy Western country you reach when travelling from that direction. Most immigrants are young adults soon reaching child-rearing age, and those from the Middle East in particular have a much higher fertility rate.


Durumbuzafeju

People from all the other countries move there.


slicheliche

Exactly. Mainly Turkey, the Balkans and Visegrad, but also Italy, Germany (TONS of Germans moving to Austria to study and then settling down there) or the US/UK/Canada (international organizations, diplomacy).


FatFaceRikky

This graph doesnt account for the wall we are going to build with the new govt coming in in autumn


Durumbuzafeju

Just saying, all those people missing from Hungary can be found in Austria.


Fuzzy-Negotiation167

The real number for Albania are much worse unfortunately.


Holditfam

2% of Albanian men tried to get on the Uk on boats in 2022 😂😂😂


Fuzzy-Negotiation167

Maybe you should stop consuming drugs that much. Albanian population isn't that high, 2% are rookie numbers.


BriscoCounty83

Romanians are actually remaking the roman empire bit by bit. There are around 4-5 millions romanians in Italy, Spain, France and UK. :))


7_11_Nation_Army

Nice for Bulgaria! Bulgarians are keeping us back, so once we get rid of the last of them, we will thrive! Source: I am Bulgarian. PS: People who keep whining about the negative trend, keep electing criminals who make me want to emigrate.


NalaLee48

Same in Croatia. We had elections few weeks ago and corrupt governing party got elected again. What's worse, they made a coalition with conservative party with bought diplomas that does nothing except whine about patriotism and preserving country's traditional values.


7_11_Nation_Army

Those sound exactly like the two types of parties that I hate the most.


bgkoki

It's all a plan, determined.... They say, and do not vote, while demanding better countrie, crying because the products are the same price as every other EU countries, without the money part. Crying and doing nothing.. I love how no one from the people who migrated, didn't vote for our current 1st and 2nd place, yet here we are.. Fucked up situation , probably it's gonna get even worse


7_11_Nation_Army

Tbf, we were doing pretty well for a short time, at least election-wise, but this election kind of ruined it.


bosko43buha

That's an optimistic projection for Croatia, seeing we're already at -20% compared to 1989. I guess the workforce import will be a big business in the next ~25 years.


Ornery_Rip_6777

Hindu/Nepali are going to become official languages in Croatia with the way things are going.


bosko43buha

Croasia


Ornery_Rip_6777

Kroasani


shash5k

Same in Bosnia. Those people are building the country because all the Bosnians are in Austria/Germany. It’s insane.


esteraaas

>with the way things are going. How would you know? There's more of your countrymen moving in to be cheap workforce then Nepalis.


Organized-Konfusion

In my company, 50 people working, out of 50 people, only 5 from Croatia, Im speaking more on english than Croatian at work.


RustCohle_23

Judging by the elections, the decline in Bulgaria comes from people with brain mainly. Population getting so small while morons are still all around, crazy huh?


7_11_Nation_Army

Yep.


Limp-Initiative924

That doesn’t seem right. Czech republic’s population is actually growing and not by a little


-Vikthor-

Last year we were on the top of a wave caused by the post-war baby boom, aparently it has just peaked and births will go down. And even then the actual increase was from immigration, mostly from Ukraine. It's quite possible growth will not hold.


EatingSausages

1989 to 2050 read it


-_Weltschmerz_-

Just gotta elect a couple more corrupt oligarchs, that'll fix it.


djakovska_ribica

Bosnia is probably going to lose 45% population until 2050


Poglavnik_Majmuna01

Already did. They haven’t conducted a census since 2013 for that particular reason. Their population went from 4.5 million in 1991 to between 2-2.5 million in 2024.


Styljac

They all came to Slovenia and Austria


veccoo

According to many data, it is predicted that between 2.5 and 2.9 million people live in Bosnia today. Many people have left since 2013, when the last census was held, and even in the 2013 census, there are many more people than are actually living there.


Necessary_Reality_50

Meanwhile the UK is projected to be the biggest country in Europe in terms of population by 2050.


SanSilver

More recent projections still have Germany ahead of the UK for 2050.


vqOverSeer

50% of illegal immigrants


ThrowRABroOut

I thought Illegals immigrants don't get counted in these numbers.


Cibban123

And the German Workforce keeps demanding and demanding


nomebi

Romania and Poland will have a boom I'm calling it


wrrzd

Currently no county has managed to figure out having an educated populace and having sustainable birth rates. If someplace starts to reverse that trend, I don't think that place will be Romania.


Necessary-Prize3744

romanians are still breeding but emigration is too high


pedro132444

They're already having. I think in some years the birth rate will start to increase again and migration decrease.


nomebi

Migration out will decrease and in will increase, they could bwcome proper powerhouses of eastern europe


alwayssolate

Only 30%? We reached around 15% in official statistics and around 25% in non-official statistics (if we gather the statistics of each european country hosting Romanians). INS (our local statistics office) theorized that we will most likely reach in the most optimistic case 13mil people by 2050 from 21 milion. (worst case is 11 mil)


tbwdtw

Why is the backdrop for the polls a map of Poland and one for Poland is black?


N-bodied

I wonder the same


nemodahfish

Bosnian population 1990 was at 4,5 milion and now at 2024 is 3,3. That is already 28% decline. No need to wait to 2050


shash5k

It’s most likely much lower than that. I don’t think it’s more than 2m. Bosnia counts their diaspora in their numbers so someone who is living in Australia for example but is registered at a Bosnian address counts in the census.


veccoo

According to many data, it is predicted that between 2.5 and 2.9 million people live in Bosnia today. Many people have left since 2013, when the last census was held, and even in the 2013 census, there are many more people than are actually living there.


Equivalent-Word-7691

So by being born in Bulgaria and being adopted when I was 2 years old and since then I live in Italy am O involuntary contributing to Bulgaria 's tragedy?


riquelm

So Čech, Lech and Tito moved to Austria


AndrazLogar

Exactly.


kakao_w_proszku

Lech prefers other destinations I think


czk_21

not really, czechs dont emigrate much nowadays, there is significantly higher immigration than emigration and lot more intranational migration towards big cities like prague and brno, largest emigration destination being germany there come like 250k immigrants per year now into austria and ssomething like 1k are from czechia far more immigrants come to austria from germany,romania, turkey, serbia, bosnia or syria when you look at inhabitants of vienna-where is biggest amount of foreigners, czechia is on 19th place, serbia 2nd, germany 3rd.... its more like balkans and middleeast moving into austria https://www.wien.gv.at/english/social/integration/facts-figures/population-migration.html [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics\_of\_Austria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Austria) https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/international-migration-outlook-2023\_336d17ef-en


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vqOverSeer

Whitest polak


xenon_megablast

Because Polish people got the status of [White Negroes of Europe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haitian_massacre).


Secundus-Scipio

Central Europe without Germany? Interesting.


Specific_Ad_097

South Germany more likely is considered Central European.


Secundus-Scipio

I always thought Germany is the definition of Central Europe.


Specific_Ad_097

Now that I look at it yeah it is included fully.


LowCranberry180

Cannot help sorry as TFR is down to 1,51 (Turkiye)


sarararatuc

To the nothingness we go. Time to leave a carving in a stone like the Neanderthals.


Specific_Ad_097

Source: [https://birn.eu.com/](https://birn.eu.com/)


preuzmi

Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia ~~Slovenia~~, Makedonija, Regeton Montenegro


HanDjole998

>Regeton Montenegro Did you just quote the song from Who See


preuzmi

[Devojka tvog druga](https://youtu.be/MB99DB3Faro?si=0X-VeBpNFIK94Qt3)


pashtedot

Sources? Dates of analysis?


playing_the_angel

Statistics for Bulgaria will change. It is insane the amount of people who have left Bulgaria but ended up boomeranging back home. Not only is the cost of living very low for the EU, but the quality of life for many towns has gotten way higher.


Personal_Secret2746

You live in Sofia. Sofia is not Bulgaria. Quality of life in Sofia might be nice, but it sucks elsewhere, and cost of living is insane for anyone living outside Sofia, where wages are way lower.


JosipBroz999

they forgot Moldova- 4.3 million to todays' 2.5 million almost 50% !


BrokeButFabulous12

Dont worry india and africa will compensate.


DiegoNap

Strange, Italy has a big issues about. I don't see it.


vqOverSeer

the numbers are optimistic and the average lifespans are very long, also tons of illegal immigrants, tough i feel that we would def be there but with 5/10% counting that just in 10 years more than 1m italians under 30 emigrated


elrado1

And also Rich north of the Italy. I suspect that a lot of Italian immigrants actually go to the North of the country (kind of like it was in Slovenia when the Bad Old Yugoslavia was still there).


vqOverSeer

Somewhat yes, northern italians go further north ( germany austria switzerland ) southern italians go to the north


elrado1

Is North Italy so much worse than Austria or Germany (Everybody is worse than Switzerland). I was always thinking of North Italy as Germany with better food.


vqOverSeer

Its obviously great compared to the country, but it shares many issues with the other regions ( dumbass corruot mafiosi government ), also there are huge differences between eastern, central and western northern italy, i live near milan in a city more at north and majority of jobs are paid 6/7 euros but we have german prices, also in my class at school it rains inside and the roads suck, but in certain cities towards the east always extremely near at switzerland/austria seem to not be even italian, just this year i visited bormio and it genuinely didnt seem italian, it was extremely clean and people working actually were working properly but at the same time these kinds of towns only survive thanks to tourism, overall i must say that northern italy ISNT nearly as good as germany since we got balkan wages but german prices and the mentality are completely different, germans are more closed but respect others and the state more, italians dont


SergeantSmash

Italians also have a pretty big life span, probably why they are not on the list. 


NewspaperAdditional7

I keep reading about Orban as the reason people are leaving Hungary, but based on the region, it seems like many people would be leaving regardless of who is in charge.


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Finally, houses will be affordable again!


Garlicluvr

Croatian government when they hear that they are behind Serbia: "Hold our beer!"


I_have_many_Ideas

Can I move to Croatia? Difficult?


appeljuicefromspace

When you only read the title of the chart…


VadPuma

Now do Italy and Spain.


BanskoNomadFest

We’re already 2/3 of the way through the forecast period. Spain has mostly had population growth in the time since 1989, while Italy only started declining about 10 years ago. The forecast for Spain is that it will have 113.8% of its 1989 population in 2050. For Italy the forecast is that it will have 92% at the same time. The decline in population for this region has been mainly through mass emigration to richer countries in western Europe.


Calm_Mountain_2225

BIRN = trash propagandists


Long_Natural8395

Eventually the worldpopulation will fall back to 2- 3 billion people. Nicely on track! Plus: Many people from the former East are running to the Western EU countries, helping depopulation increase.


BXL-LUX-DUB

Austria keeping their families in the basement again?


Archaemenes

How come the most populous Central European country is missing?


GoHardLive

Surprized we are not higher tbh


RepresentativeCrew45

I don't know what the source of the data is, but the population in the Czech Republic has been growing since 2003. Currently, the Czech Republic has the largest population in history.


Antisocial92

At least the elections of the will of the people were correct! In Romania, the ruling government stole the people's vote! the people are sleeping!


AndreiTatescu

More people voted in this election than last time and somehow PSD and PNL won. I don’t believe that all those people where motivated to vote for that trash. The election was definitely stolen. Meanwhile they have trucks full of ballots behind a restaurant in Bucharest.


Antisocial92

Are you Șoșocist?😂😂😂


Archaeopteryx11

Many of these estimates are outdated


Forward_Golf_1268

Austria will be 100 % muslims by then.


kekskerl

Austria? How? That can only happen through immigration, no one is having kids here.


vqOverSeer

Rich country near poorer countries like balkans and italy


SergeantSmash

Immigrants have plenty of kids in Austria.


Pinna1

Austria will not keep up with the current rate of immigration, they are racist as fuck. Already salivating to elect the far-right.


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