YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Young people, family, and intergenerational mindsets  267 clearly evident. In 2010, almost 80%of young people said that this was a big orverybigproblem.Unfortunately, thedecadehasnotbroughtmuchchange. In 2020, only a few percent less young people think this is not a (very) big problem(71.9%). This is evenmore tellinggiven that thepercentage of young people who think that this is not a problemat all has even fallen. Figure 7.10: The amount of young people, who consider the growing number of older people as a problem. 30% 50% 80% 90% 20% 10% 70% 60% 40% This is not a problem at all This is a big problem This is a very big problem This is a small problem 2020 2010 4.4 17.2 47.5 29.8 18.4 3.8 43.5 28.4 0% 100% Sources: Mladina 2010, Mladina 2020. When considering awareness about the ageing population as a demo- graphic and general societal problem, it is important to stress that this awareness is linked to education, with the more highly educated perceiv- ing this situation as muchmore problematic than the less educated. Inter- estingly, this is also true for women, who perceive the situation described as muchmore serious than their male peers. It is quite clear that concerns about an ageing population are linked to the distribution of wealth be- tween generations and to changes that are promised for the future on the basis of the demographic trends presented. Very few young people believe that prosperity is fairly distributed between the young and the old. To be precise, only a small proportion of young people believe this to be the case (see Figure 2.11). This means that young people very clearly associate de- mographic trends with redistributive policies andwith the redistribution ratio between the older and younger parts of the population. Again, wom- en are much more concerned than their male counterparts, and those with higher levels of educational attainment are also more likely to think that there is an unfair distribution of wealth between generations.