Debate on Sweden's low birth rate: Is immigration a solution?

All political parties and politicians seem obsessed with Sweden's low birth rate. In the long run, it is said to lead to fewer and fewer people working and paying taxes and eroding welfare. With an aging population, it is also said to be difficult to find personnel for care.

But is it a real problem? There are lots of people from other countries who want to come here and work and contribute.

From a social economic point of view, it must be cheaper to give new arrivals language teaching and education for a few years, than newborn children who only cost money for at least twenty years before they can become working taxpayers. Now if the native Swedes are not so eager to bring children into the world.

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