China’s working-age population will fall 23% by 2050
2016年7月25日 · The age-dependency ratio measures the ratio of dependents – those younger than 15 or older than 64 – to the working-age population. Globally, the percentage of the population that is of working age has been in decline since the mid-1960s, as this chart from the World Bank shows. In China, it has already dropped from over 80% in 1966 to 37% ...
China's population shrinking on reasonable assumptions
2022年7月26日 · China's population is on track to decline for the first time since the great famine of 1959-1961; The country’s total fertility rate decreased from 2.6 in the late 1980s – well above the 2.1 needed to replace deaths – to just 1.15 in 2021. Researchers predict China's elderly population will overtake its working-age population around 2080.
How will China's shrinking working-age population affect growth?
2016年1月22日 · The number of working-age people in China fell by 4.9 million last year, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics. The record annual drop brings the number of people aged between 16 and 60 to 911 million, and illustrates a trend in which fewer young workers are entering China’s workforce, while the number of retirees grows.
China is trying to delay its retirement age. Here's why
2022年5月3日 · China is planning on raising its retirement age as its working-age population shrinks. But the idea is unpopular with both younger and older workers. Existing pension systems are significantly underfunded and rely on contributions from current workers to …
US joins climate coalition, China working age population to fall …
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Japan’s workforce will be 20% smaller by 2040 - The World …
2019年2月12日 · Japan’s shrinking working-age population is a demographic timebomb. Image: OECD Compared with the 65.3 million working-age people in 2017, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry expects there to be just 60.82 million in 2025 and only 52.45 million in 2040.
Can we solve the world’s ageing population crisis by 2035?
2023年6月19日 · Based on the United Nations 2022 World Population Prospects, 30% of the population in China, an estimated 400 million people, will be aged 60 and over. Declining birth rates will lead to a declining working age population, resulting in China’s growth being reduced by 1% every year from 2035-2050, according to the Shanghai Academy of Social ...
Empower Africa’s youth to create jobs, growth and peace
2024年1月9日 · In the coming era, sub-Saharan Africa is expected to account for 90% of the growth in the world’s working-age population, and the region’s working-age population is projected to be larger than that of both India and China. This development is in the context of projected population declines in much of the world, including China, Germany and ...
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2023年9月21日 · China: The era of negative population growth The legacy of China’s one-child policy (in place between 1980 and 2015) was laid bare in 2022 when the country’s population fell by around 850,000 , its first drop since 1961 and the start of what the National People’s Congress called “ the era of negative population growth ”.
China needs 11.8m workers. Here's how to close its labour gap
2021年7月16日 · The Jinan survey team of the National Bureau of Statistics once randomly selected 366 households in suitable age groups in the city. Among the surveyed subjects, respondents in the 20-25 age group do not have any willingness to have three children and just 6.5% of respondents in the 25-30 age group are willing to have three children.
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