In the last four decades, the share of Alaskans 71 and older has increased several times over, from just over 1% to close to 8%.
For now, Alaska has about 11,000 fewer jobs than it did before the pandemic, wrote Wiebold. Despite that, the worker supply is still short. And job openings in the state hit record levels last year, she wrote.People leave the workforce for a variety of reasons, including to care for children or ailing relatives, or maybe they’re going back to school and training for a new career. Fewer people moving to Alaska is another factor, she writes.
In the last four decades, the share of Alaskans 71 and older has increased several times over, from a little over 1% to close to 8%.Alaskans 15 and younger have fallen from about 29% of the population to about 22%.Lower birth rates in Alaska, though still above the national average, is one factor for the drop in children, said David Howell, the state demographer, in an interview on Thursday.
Alaska’s birth rate over the last decade has fallen to 1.9, about two-tenths lower than what’s considered necessary to replace the population over the long haul, he said.The number of births annually has fallen to 9,400, down nearly 2,000 births from six years ago. “In addition to the fertility rate, you have a lot of millennials aging out of the prime birth years” and now getting into their 40s, he said.In the 1980s and 1990s, younger people were moving to Alaska, starting families and sometimes bringing children with them, said Howell.
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