Pirate island's plunging population shows Greece's demographic decline
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Greece faces a "national risk" as a result of population ageing, as evidenced by the closure of the Ministry of Education as a result of "low numbers of students to very low or non-existent levels."
Pirate island's plunging population shows Greece's demographic decline
The two boys are the last primary school children on the far-flung eastern Aegean island, 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the Turkish coast. "When I was a boy, the school had nearly 70 children," 77-year-old Manolis Mitikas, owner of Thymaina's portside cantina, mused over a game of backgammon. Like the rest of Greece, the former pirate hideout is facing the effects of an ageing population. The education ministry said it was shuttering 43 nurseri…
In the courtyard of the school of the tiny Greek island of Thymaina, in the Aegean Sea, two children continue.
This islet of the east of the Aegean Sea, where children are missing, has now become the symbol of a country that closes its schools to the shovel due to the ageing of its population, perceived as a "national danger". Visit on site. In the courtyard of the school of Thymaina, in the Aegean Sea, two children ...
On this ten-square-kilometre stone lost in the Aegean Sea, there are only two children in the school. Everywhere in Greece, the fall of births pushes the... Read more In Thymaina, two cousins are the last pupils of an empty island appeared first on Le Singulier.
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