After our time, I mean. Not like this is really news or anything, but the German Federal Office for Statistics has just announced that a third of all Germans will be 65-years-old or older in the year 2060 (not in the year 3000 as Conan O’Brien might have you believe). The German population will keep on shrinking too, from 82 million today to around 70 million in 2060.

No force in the universe can stop this process or something, not even if the German birth rate were to pick up, which, as we all know, won’t. Of course one could consider officially opening up the flood gates and welcoming newcomers to Germany with open arms and having them become Germans and all that but that would be tantamount to letting Ausländer into the country so, like I said, no force in the universe can stop this process. Old people really don’t like Ausländer here, you see. And this constitutes a so-called vicious circle or something.

“Ein Faktor zur Dämpfung dieser Entwicklung ist die Zuwanderung nach Deutschland.”