The population of western Europe is aging steadily, and the region’s birthrate is well below the replacement level, but Europe’s elderly are exceptionally healthy. That means they could be more productive for longer than their predecessors were. If western European governments learn to tap this potential, healthy aging could become the region’s next great economic [...]

go to permalink....

What Olmert fears is graphically illustrated by the numbers. According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, its population is 7,282,000, of whom 20.1 percent are Palestinian Arab citizens. On the West Bank and Gaza, an additional 4.2 million Palestinians live.
Hebrew University demographer Sergio DellaPergola projects that by 2020 Jews will compose only 44 percent to [...]

go to permalink....

THE United Nations Population Fund projected last week that Russia’s population will drop from 142 million today to 100 million in the next 40 to 50 years. The agency’s report praised recent government efforts to increase birth rates and extend lives. But not enough is being done to counter stark demographic forces: an impending decrease [...]

go to permalink....

Germany’s population is shrinking, with serious consequences for the country’s economy and pension system. Can Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen persuade Germans to breed? By David Gordon Smith in Berlin more…

SPIEGEL Interview with German Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen: ‘A Dangerous Breeding Ground for Right-Wing Extremism’
Rage Against the Baby Machines: Germany’s Neo-Housewives Spark [...]

go to permalink....

Demographics another headwind
China has undergone over a generation of the one-child policy, which has served to restrict her population growth. The law of unintended consequences raised its head along the way.
The population is aging rapidly. The accompanying chart shows that the UN projects the proportion of China’s elderly population, which is defined as those over [...]

go to permalink....

It has been three decades since China’s one-child policy was introduced as a temporary measure to slow the country’s population growth. But there’s rising opposition to the policy amid criticism that it’s creating another demographic crisis.
The trends are exemplified in the city of Shanghai, which has the lowest birth rate and the highest proportion [...]

go to permalink....

At current trends the average age of people in the European Union will be 49 years by 2050. Combining this with a low birth-rate could mean serious long term implications. It could lead to lower tax receipts as fewer people are of working age and increasing health costs for an aging population. Encouraging immigration and [...]

go to permalink....

Russia’s brutally high levels of mortality, along with anemic fertility levels, fashion a second “exceptional” demographic trend for the country: depopulation. In the 16-plus years since the end of the U.S.S.R., Russia has recorded over 12 million more deaths than births. Net immigration has only partially compensated for this deficit. Consequently, Russia’s population dropped from [...]

go to permalink....

I have worked more than 40 years examining and interpreting American and international social and economic data. To me the evidence seems clear. There is no collapse in sight. The United States will become vastly more powerful in the decades to come.
My primary reason concerns demographics. The first U.S. Census counted 3.9 million Americans. The [...]

go to permalink....

Putin was, in fact, mostly speaking to the audience gathered before him in the Kremlin, telling the richest and most powerful people in the land to keep calm. According to his message: the demographic crunch will be solved, the state will be strong, and the economy will grow and “innovate,” making Russia a world leader [...]

go to permalink....

Russia’s health ministry predicted on Wednesday that the birth rate in Russia would equal the mortality rate by 2011.
“By 2011 the mortality rate should be equal to the birth rate,” Social Development and Health Minister Tatyana Golikova said.
In the first eleven months of 2007 the mortality rate in Russia was 14.7 deaths per 1,000 live [...]

go to permalink....

The demographic catastrophe presently decimating American Jewry is not in dispute. Without numbing you with statistics, the basic facts are absolutely clear and chilling. The 6 million Jews in America will probably number no more than a couple of million by midcentury. This would make the Jewish percentage of the American population about the same [...]

go to permalink....

Changing demographic trends will impact the future of international relations, according to the latest issue of Public Policy and Aging Report (PP and AR). Several hotbed areas in the world that offer the motive and opportunity for political violence are due to stabilize by the year 2030. Countries such as Iraq, Pakistan, and Saudi [...]

go to permalink....

China’s position as the world’s major supplier of low-cost labour could be eroded by an ageing population, the authorities have warned.
There are six workers for each retiree in China, but that could narrow to two-to-one between 2030 and 2050, the National Committee on Ageing says.
Read More…

go to permalink....

Lanzhou exemplifies a more insidious, possibly more dangerous threat to China’s development than financial imbalances, environmental disasters or unemployment: The People’s Republic has too many men. Today, roughly 120 boys are born in China for every 100 girls, perhaps the worst gender imbalance in modern human history. Within 15 years, the country may have 30 [...]

go to permalink....

Who cares about Vicky? Well, young women like Vicky are reeking demographic havoc all over the planet. These party girls are too busy to have a family, and all of us will ultimately pay the price.
Her friend Vicky Yang is hunched over a borrowed laptop, downloading an e-mail from a pesky client on her cell [...]

go to permalink....

The Carrie Bradshaw lifestyle (Sex and the City) is showing up in unexpected places, with unintended consequences.
Three demographic facts are at the core of the New Girl Order. First, women—especially, but not only, in the developed world—are getting married and having kids considerably later than ever before. According to the UN’s World Fertility Report, the [...]

go to permalink....

“A terrible demographic crisis is taking place,” said Nikolay Petrov, a specialist on Russian society at the Carnegie Center in Moscow. “Over the next 20 years, Russia will need 20 million immigrants to compensate for the labor shortage. This is the first time in which the population and labor force are declining together. It will [...]

go to permalink....

The birth rate reached a 15-year high in Russia in the first six months of 2007, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev stated at a traditional Monday meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with government officials. According to Medvedev, 142,000 babies were born between January and June 2007, a record number since the collapse of [...]

go to permalink....

The central question this study raises and that Americans must answer is what costs and benefits come with having a much larger population and a more densely settled country. Some foresee a deteriorating quality of life with a larger population, including its impact on such things as pollution, congestion, loss of open spaces, and sprawl. [...]

go to permalink....

By 2020, 37 million Chinese men would be unable to find wives if trends continue
BEIJING, China, August 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Recent demographic reports are showing that the ratio of males to females in China is spiraling out of control. If the increasing imbalance, caused primarily by sex-selected abortions and infanticide, is not remedied, it [...]

go to permalink....