Abstract (eng)
“Education is the key”, not only to economic and social improvements of a society, but also in demographic processes, like mortality, fertility and migration behaviour. The schooling of the European population played a major role in the Demographic Transition of its nation states from growing to ageing societies in the last 200 years. Additionally, recent studies highlighted the impact of education on the age composition and the size of a population, and therefore on the prospective potential workforce and retired population.
This diploma thesis shall outline the potential impact of educational structure and education policy goals on the future age structure and population size of the European Union and Candidate Countries by setting up different Multi-state Population Projection Scenarios. Those get underlined by assumptions about the influence of demographic processes and political objectives on the prospective path of fertility, mortality, migration and education.