Changing demographics are affecting nearly every part of society, while efforts to turn around the decline have so far had little impact
Maybe they should try working their young workforce more hours? That’ll surely get them to have kids
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The old people are not gone. Japan is the society with the oldest average age. One in three people there are over 65.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/elderly-oldest-population-world-japan/Removed by mod
And at this rate Japan will be a young country around 2080. You are correct, just a bit early.
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The average age isn’t getting any younger, since there are less and less births to replace the dead.
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Drop the passive aggressive BS.
Your comment would be true IF old people were dying off and the age of people wasn’t changing. You’d be replacing 80 year olds with babies. However, it’s not so straightforward when you account for the fact that there are new people joining the 80 year old club every day.
Put very simply - if the birth rate dropped to zero today, would the population be getting younger since old people are dying off? Of course not, on the contrary the average age is getting older because there’s more people joining the 80 year olds than the infants.
Ummmmmm. So yeah I have not clicked to read the article but im like pretty sure tokyo is in the millions. I have not done a search for it yet but im like sure on the level that its in millions that its hard to bother putting it into a search engine. I mean its bigger than chicago. EDITED - read the article and LOL I read it as drops to 800k not drops by 800k. Its really funny if your in my head right now.
I read it as drops to 800k
That would be a little terrifying.
I blame Gojira.
