The Looming Population Bust

[Unkotare]

Japan's population shrinks as elderly make up 25% ? Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion


"Japan’s population has shrunk for the third year running, with the elderly making up a quarter of the total for the first time, government data showed on Tuesday.

The number of people in the world’s third largest economy dropped by 0.17% or 217,000 people, to 127,298,000 as of Oct 1 last year, the data said. This figure includes long-staying foreigners.

The number of people aged 65 or over rose by 1.1 million to 31.9 million, accounting for 25.1 of the population, it said.

With its low birthrate and long life expectancy, Japan is rapidly graying and already has one of the world’s highest proportions of elderly people.

The aging population is a headache for policymakers who are faced with trying to ensure an ever-dwindling pool of workers can pay for the growing number of pensioners."



Every developed nation is facing this prospect. It is merely a matter of different timetables. The world will be dealing a new set of challenges that have gone too long without due consideration as generation after generation has been distracted by the false crisis of 'overpopulation.' The wise would do well to watch carefully what Japan does in the next few decades and learn from both successes and failures.

 

[Toro]

It's a big problem.

They can delay it if they get more women in the workforce, which is what Abe is trying to do.

 

[Unkotare]

No developed country will be able to avoid it for very long, and most underdeveloped countries are catching up fast.

 

[waltky]

Granny wonderin' how all dem people gonna get fed?...

Global Population Predicted to Reach Nearly 11 Billion by 2100
September 18, 2014 ~ A new study says the global population is growing faster than expected and projects the number of people globally will rise to just under 11 billion people by 2100.

The study, which is an extension of a 2013 United Nations report, says growth is unlikely to stabilize this century. About seven billion people currently inhabit the planet. For the past 20 years, population experts have predicted the population would grow to nine billion before it begins to level off and possibly decline. But the new projections that estimate 11 billion people by 2100 factor in government data and expert forecasts of mortality rates, fertility trends and international migration.

The new study also says Africa is likely to see the largest increase in population — from about 3.5 billion to 5.1 billion people — during the next 85 years. United Nations Population Division Director John Wilmoth, one of the study's authors, says researchers previously anticipated population trends in Africa would follow patterns in other countries, increasing at a slower rate as birth control use became more widespread.

People wait to receive food and supplies from an aid distribution point set up inside a makeshift camp at Mpoko Airport in Bangui

But that has not turned out to be the case. “The level of contraceptive use has continued to increase but slowly — more slowly than expected — and fertility therefore has been falling less rapidly than expected, and the population therefore continues to grow more rapidly than we expected,” he said. Research conducted jointly by the United Nations and the University of Washington anticipates the population of Asia will peak at five billion people by 2050, up from 4.4 billion people today.

Wilmoth says the strain of feeding the rising global population is likely to be less than might be expected. “The relatively good news is that the world has been winning the race between population growth and food production," he said. "If you look back historically over the last 50 years, certainly for the world as a whole and for most individual countries and regions, the increase in food production has outpaced the increase of population.” The latest global population estimates, contained in a report published in Science, flesh out the most recent U.N. population projections released in July.

Global Population Predicted to Reach Nearly 11 Billion by 2100

 

[pismoe]

GOOD , Japan would probably be so much nicer with less crowds !!

 

[Dogmaphobe]

The wise would do well to watch carefully what Japan does in the next few decades and learn from both successes and failures.

Well, the one thing Japan is doing differently than Europe is to preserve itself as Japan.

Many European countries are in a headlong rush to destroy themselves through the importation of huge numbers of those who wish to impose their own barbaric ways.

I applaud Japan for wishing to remain Japan.

 

[pismoe]

excellent post and thinking Dogmaphobe !!

 

[Unkotare]

Japan's population shrinks as elderly make up 25% ? Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion


"Japan’s population has shrunk for the third year running, with the elderly making up a quarter of the total for the first time, government data showed on Tuesday.

The number of people in the world’s third largest economy dropped by 0.17% or 217,000 people, to 127,298,000 as of Oct 1 last year, the data said. This figure includes long-staying foreigners.

The number of people aged 65 or over rose by 1.1 million to 31.9 million, accounting for 25.1 of the population, it said.

With its low birthrate and long life expectancy, Japan is rapidly graying and already has one of the world’s highest proportions of elderly people.

The aging population is a headache for policymakers who are faced with trying to ensure an ever-dwindling pool of workers can pay for the growing number of pensioners."



Every developed nation is facing this prospect. It is merely a matter of different timetables. The world will be dealing a new set of challenges that have gone too long without due consideration as generation after generation has been distracted by the false crisis of 'overpopulation.' The wise would do well to watch carefully what Japan does in the next few decades and learn from both successes and failures.

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[pismoe]

good to EXCELLENT news fer Japan Unkatore !!

 

[Unkotare]

Shortsighted fools can't understand what they read.

 

[pismoe]

I only read the head line [scare line] , any problems due to shrinking population will have to be dealt with but humans - Japanese are very resourceful and adaptable and smart so they'll be fine Unkatore

 

[pismoe]

and they'll have a nicer country to boot , less crowded equals more freedom .

 

[R.C. Christian]

Don't worry, people like Ezekiel Emmanuel have a solution once the person is of no more use to the collective.

 

[Unkotare]

and they'll have a nicer country to boot , less crowded equals more freedom .

You're an idiot.

 

[Unkotare]

"Japan’s demographic dilemma grows more urgent by the year. Last week the government passed the nation’s largest-ever budget—a mammoth $937-billion package swelled by welfare and pension spending. Japan is already weighed down by one of the world’s largest public debt burdens. With its inverted population pyramid, where will it find the tax base to repay this debt, and to care for its growing population of elderly?"


Japan s demography The incredible shrinking country The Economist

 

[pismoe]

Thanks fer the reply Unkatore , seems to me that eventually the old Japanese people will die , so problem solved with pensions and welfare to old people . Are you old and over the hill Unkatore , is your old age the reason for your concern with dwindling supply of people to provide you with a pension ??

 

[Unkotare]

Rain Man the illogical buffoon is stuck on repeat.

 

[pismoe]

hows it going ' forest UNKATORE gump ' ??