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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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
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
AND PEOPLE UNDER 18, AS WELL.................
I haven’t seen a ‘teenager’ working in a fast food restaurant in ages!..................
The geniuses who legalized abortion apparently were very bad at math. And common sense.
That was W.C......I don’t wanna waste ANY!!!
So not sure if this "headline" means much.........
Roe v. Wade. 1972. 50,000 abortions a year in America, on average. All of those babies would be 47 this year. :(
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
People used to have 10 kids so of course there were more kids.
Our society used to value children. Now they do not.
Our society also used to value seniors, now they do not.
Homicides....................19,362
Suicides.......................44,965
Overdoses...................87,265
Alcohol-induced..........34,865
Car accidents..............43,048
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..................................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.
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.
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.
And, level off there.
Why the world population won’t exceed 11 billion
Another gem - on immigration:
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.
How many 5 year olds aren’t Caucasian?
‘’undersywhy’’. Cool word. What’s it mean?
Most of that will be in Africa — the only continent in the world that is still experiencing annual births > deaths.
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!’’.
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