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There are more people older than 65 than younger than 5 for the first time... changing the world
markets.businessinsider.com ^ | Feb. 20, 2019, 09:06 AM | Rebecca Ungarino

Posted on 02/21/2019 10:47:49 AM PST by Red Badger

The world's population is aging while many countries' birth rates fail to keep up. There are now more people over the age of 65 than there are under the age of five - a dispersion that's never occurred before, according to Deutsche Bank. The data point is part of a broader trend with widespread consequences for productivity, inflation, and global growth, economists say. Fund managers are taking notice of "secular stagnation" conditions often associated with persistent low inflation and low growth, and adjusting their allocations accordingly.

The world's population isn't getting any younger. In fact, it's getting much, much older. And that has sweeping implications for global growth, economists contend.

There are now more people on Earth older than 65 than younger than five for the first time, according to a Deutsche Bank analysis of United Nations data, Haver Analytics data, and the firm's global research.

The extreme data point underscores a broader economic trend that some economists are warning clients about: declining fertility rates lead to an aging population, which is thought to usher in depressed productivity, labor-force participation, and stagnant inflation. More indirect results of declining birth rates may also have an impact on macroeconomic factors like homeownership.

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To: Da Coyote

In my Catholic Church on a military base there was one child at Sunday mass last week. Full house too

That is not abortion

That’s birth control


21 posted on 02/21/2019 11:21:49 AM PST by stanne
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To: Roccus
You convinced me.
At 74, it's time for me to blow my money on wine, women and good times.

No, no, no. The line is “I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.”

-- W.C. Fields

22 posted on 02/21/2019 11:21:58 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: I want the USA back

AND PEOPLE UNDER 18, AS WELL.................

I haven’t seen a ‘teenager’ working in a fast food restaurant in ages!..................


23 posted on 02/21/2019 11:23:03 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

The geniuses who legalized abortion apparently were very bad at math. And common sense.


24 posted on 02/21/2019 11:30:21 AM PST by LouAvul (Socialism is the logical conclusion of liberalism. Anarchy is the logical conclusion of socialism.)
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To: Yo-Yo

That was W.C......I don’t wanna waste ANY!!!


25 posted on 02/21/2019 11:30:35 AM PST by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: webheart
Infant mortality (for those 5 yrs and below) was also much higher in past decades / centuries.

So not sure if this "headline" means much.........

26 posted on 02/21/2019 11:36:09 AM PST by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Red Badger

Roe v. Wade. 1972. 50,000 abortions a year in America, on average. All of those babies would be 47 this year. :(


27 posted on 02/21/2019 11:36:14 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: Roccus; airplaneguy
At 74, it's time for me to blow my money on wine, women and good times.

you got that right ... already informed my kids there will be no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow ... dream on, fly high, airplaneguy

28 posted on 02/21/2019 11:37:58 AM PST by TheRightGuy
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To: webheart
Correction:

People used to have 10 kids so of course there were more kids.

29 posted on 02/21/2019 11:39:45 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: Red Badger

Our society used to value children. Now they do not.


30 posted on 02/21/2019 11:40:32 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Our society used to value children. Now they do not.

Our society also used to value seniors, now they do not.

31 posted on 02/21/2019 11:41:28 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger
I watched one of Steven Crowder's last videos on abortion. He gave the stats on deaths in 2016 (not including cancer deaths):

Homicides....................19,362

Suicides.......................44,965

Overdoses...................87,265

Alcohol-induced..........34,865

Car accidents..............43,048
_______________________________
..................................209,505 total

Abortion accounts for 4 times the rate of all of these kinds of death combined:

Abortion ....................926,240

That is a whole lotta murdering going on.

And it IS murder.

32 posted on 02/21/2019 11:43:12 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: cuban leaf

We have 95 million people between 16-65 out of the workforce. Automation is increasing productivity and eliminating jobs, especially low skilled ones.

Immigrants grow old as well. We could increase legal immigration to 3 million a year from the current 1.1 million and it would have a negligible effect on our aging population.


33 posted on 02/21/2019 11:47:42 AM PST by kabar
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To: airplaneguy

Which ties in with one of my concerns with the stock market and as the older generation continues to move forward and cash out - will demand drop enough to impact stock prices overall?

I could definitely see real estate prices being impacted... unless the millenials start to make more purchases then they have to this point.


34 posted on 02/21/2019 11:51:03 AM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: kabar
...and to 11 billion by 2100 according to current projections.

And, level off there.

Why the world population won’t exceed 11 billion

Another gem - on immigration:

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs

35 posted on 02/21/2019 11:51:16 AM PST by C210N (You can vote your way into Socialism; but, you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Red Badger

Blacks have the highest abortion rates. The black population would be twice what is now, 40 million vice 80 million. Hispanics have the second highest abortion rates.


36 posted on 02/21/2019 11:52:52 AM PST by kabar
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To: Red Badger

How many 5 year olds aren’t Caucasian?


37 posted on 02/21/2019 11:56:41 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: stanne

‘’undersywhy’’. Cool word. What’s it mean?


38 posted on 02/21/2019 11:59:45 AM PST by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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To: kabar

Most of that will be in Africa — the only continent in the world that is still experiencing annual births > deaths.


39 posted on 02/21/2019 12:00:13 PM PST by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: Red Badger

I’m 62. I’m changing the world. I know I’m changing the traffic pattern where I live, I know that. I’m that guy who drives 45 mph in the fast lane with my left blinker going all the time. yup, that’s me. “Hey you kids get off my lawn!’’.


40 posted on 02/21/2019 12:01:36 PM PST by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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