The combination of a shrinking working population and an increasing proportion of retired people in the general population as well as the problems associated with population dispersion, are expected to continue to place strains, inter alia, on Member States' education and social support structures and thus on the Union's economic competitiveness.
An cumasc de dhaonra oibre atá ag laghdú agus de mhéadú ar an gcion de dhaoine sa daonra trí chéile atá ar scor chomh maith leis na fadhbanna a bhaineann le scaipeadh daonra, táthar ag súil go leanfaidh an cumasc sin de straidhn a chur, inter alia, ar struchtúir tacaíochta oideachais agus sóisialta na mBallstát agus ar an tslí sin ar chuma iomaíochta eacnamaíche an Aontais.