[proxy_user]

By 2020, almost 30% of the Chinese population will be over 60.

Of those under 60, about 60% will be men and 40% women.

That doesn't sound very promising. How do things look in India?

[mylife]

China has a shortage of workers?
Who'd a thunk it?

[Roy Tucker]

You're on to something because on the One Child Policy (now being relaxed for the well-to-do)in China, there is a huge gender disparity (more males than females). Finding female workers for the fiddly little factory jobs is getting harder. Labor costs in China are rising rapidly.

Mind you India needs to lift it's game and open up to foreign investment a lot more if it is going to catch China.

[Prost1]

If the Yangtse River corrects itself again before then, then all the numbers are wrong.

[diesel00]

By 2020, almost 30% of the Chinese population will be over 60. Of those under 60, about 60% will be men and 40% women. That doesn't sound very promising. How do things look in India?

Asians are more family oriented. Old people will be taken care of by their immediate offsprings, the government will only have to play a limited role. Thus the burden that China's aging population will have on the Chinese economy will not be as large as predicted, in fact it would likely force the offsprings to be more productive. Once the "boomers" die off, China's economic situation would be drastically improved as its offspring population are much more educated. The generation gap between the current Chinese "boomers" and their offspring is incredibly large. Ultimately a leaner population is not to the disadvantage of a crowded country like China.