... MEMBER STATES AND THE DEPENDENT ELDERLY | 3 • Second, there is the group with the oldest populations among the 10 new states: Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The proportion ... Of the other six countries, Latvia and Estonia have experienced the largest negative net migration rate (-10% and -7.4% between 1990 and 1995 respectively, and -4.7% and -2.5% between 1995 and ... Lithuania and Poland. For the most part, the poor wages on offer explain the low number of nurses in these countries. NEW EU MEMBER STATES AND THE DEPENDENT ELDERLY | 11 Finally, although the...