Issue The plan's three-track population strategy: overcome low fertility, adapt to structural change and ease regional imbalance

Summary

The plan sets the overarching goal of sustainable growth through a full-scale response to the population crisis. It seeks to address low fertility, ageing and regional imbalance on every front in order to secure both social sustainability and new drivers of growth. The strategy is organised into three tracks covering overcoming low fertility, responding to structural population change and easing regional population imbalance. Related national tasks include creating an environment in which it is easier to have and raise children, responding to changing family structures with tailored support for retirees, and a labour transition that responds to demographic, digital and climate change. Support for areas at risk of depopulation appears among the balanced growth tasks, and all of these remain government goals.