How reinvention can help countries facing demographic decline

How reinvention can help countries facing demographic decline

Demographic decline—an increasing problem across much of CEE and the Baltics—need not signal permanent retreat. Rather, it offers the perfect moment for reinvention. It’s no secret that demographic decline is quietly reshaping much of Central and Eastern Europe. Bulgaria’s population, once nine million strong, is now below seven million, shrinking as swiftly as Latvia’s, which has seen a fifth of its people vanish since 1991. Ukraine, battered b…