A podcast discussion featuring Professor Paul Spoonley on New Zealand's declining birth rates, aging population, and the increasing reliance on immigration to sustain workforce growth, with a focus on demographic trends in Auckland and future policy responses.
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A new insight into the demographic makeup of our country. So we've got fewer births, aging population, not sure that's new. We've got a reliance on immigration to... to sustain the workforce. Fertility is at 1.55, which is a record low, and the labour shortage in 2045 we're going to be short of a quarter of a million people, which presumably we're going to have to import. In Auckland, New Zealand Europeans are going to drop below 50% in a couple of years' time. Anyway, Paul Spoonley these days is a senior fellow at Koitu, and is with us. Paul, how are you?
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