We generated the highest economic growth rate in the Balkans, which means new jobs, higher wages and greater opportunities for the young. We provide free textbooks for schoolkids, because education is the foundation of demographic growth, the Prime Minister said. The Prime Minister outlined the dire statistics, showing that the number of newborns per year dropped from 50,000 in 1950 to just 16,000 now. I want to send a message to all Macedonian citizens: founding a family with multiple children is the highest patriotic act of a people for its homeland. Regardless of the ethnic or religious background, the large family means future.