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flag Greece closes 700+ schools in 2025 due to low birth rates and youth migration, threatening rural communities.

flag Greece is closing over 700 schools in 2025 due to plummeting birth rates and youth migration, especially on rural islands like Lemnos, where villages such as Thanos face near-empty classrooms with only one or two students. flag The population on Lemnos has dropped from over 27,000 in the 1950s to about 16,000, fueling a cycle of depopulation that threatens schools, healthcare, and community life. flag With no neonatal intensive care on the island, pregnant women must travel for care, and doctors report births have declined sharply. flag The national fertility rate remains well below the 2.1 replacement level, endangering the long-term survival of rural communities and their cultural fabric.

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