elder-dependency ratio. yup, that will do you in, especially once you have gotten rid of the 30 million pesky testosterone-crazed unmarried men by going to war. so there will be 5 ancient hans being supported by one working han. social security ki jai.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Shahryar
From: Shahryar
| August 3, 2009 China's future will be hobbled by old ageIts one-child policy has given China a rich country's problem: a rapidly ageing populationRosemary Righter Beware what you wish for. Birth control was one of the resounding policy successes of the last quarter of the last century. In the early 1970s, women worldwide were bearing an average of 4.3 children; populations in some of the poorest countries were doubling at breakneck speed and demographers were predicting that the world would contain 16 billion or more people before the demographic express hit the buffers of famine and war. |
No comments:
Post a Comment