All of the countries of Southern Europe are facing either stationary or declining populations. Spain and Andorra both have no projected population change from 2003 to 2050. Malta is expected to have an 8% decline in population, and Italy is projected to have a 9% decline.ll of the countries of Southern Europe have approximately 30% of their population in the age ranges of under age 15 or over age 65. In Greece and Italy, the rate is 14/19, with 14% of the population being under age 15 and 19% over age 65.
Jeff Bezos: If you go back in time 18 years, I was driving the packages to the post office myself, and we were very primitive. Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon, with an estimated worth of at least $25 billion.
Amazon.com is a huge online retailer which does almost $60 billion a year in sales. But it doesn't pay its executives high salaries, as Fortune's Adam Lashinsky notes in his recent cover story :For example, Jeff Wilke, who runs Amazon's North American consumer business, one of its largest, earned a salary last year of $165,000. That reflected a $5,000 raise from the previous year.Save one peer with an ancient employment agreement, no one at Amazon makes more than Wilke.Lashinsky doesn't name that executive, but a quick glance at Amazon's proxy statement tells us it's Diego Piacentini, Amazon's senior vice president for international retail.iacentini makes $175,000 a yearâ$10,000 more than Wilke. Formerly Apple's general manager for Europe, he was hired in 2000 by Joe Galli, a former Black & Decker executive who had a brief stint as Amazon.com's COO.