Posted on 03/31/2016 2:17:26 PM PDT by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) - Sometime in the next four years the global population of human beings who are 65 and older will surpass those under 5 for the first time, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau.
“For the first time in human history, people aged 65 and older will outnumber children under age 5,” says the report, entitled “An Aging World: 2015.”
“This crossing is just around the corner, before 2020,” says the report.
“These two age groups will then continue to grow in opposite directions,” it says. “By 2050, the proportion of the population 65 and older (15.6 percent) will be more than double that of children under age 5 (7.2 percent).
“This unique demographic phenomenon of the ‘crossing’ is unprecedented,” says the Census Bureau.
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It's the Baby Boom, riding that demographic bulge through the pages of history. -- Joel Mabus
Some of us Boomers fought and died in Nam so that you could say ignorant things.
and so many of those old people will never be grandparents.
When my daughter was a baby, old ladies used to sometimes stop me in the grocery store, with a sad, hungry look in their eyes. They had to get a little “baby fix” by smiling at the baby. Then they would tell me about their children who didn’t want children, and their despair about it.
It was then I realized how powerful babies really are.
I think that is a very astute observation.
My first thought - don’t let Billy Gates and Zuckerburg hear about this! Those 2 eugenic freaks will devise some plan to off millions...
no, population control by euthanasia. Watch how the pro euthanasia propaganda goes viral. Or just read about the law in Canada...
No disrespect intended. I am a boomer. I have many friends and family some here some not that served there too. I just meant the birth rate for true American Citizens has declined and the end of the living boomer era will come to an end. Please back off.
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