Only 29% of the voting-age population bothered to vote at the last gubernatorial election.
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The red line is the percentage of the working-age population in the labor force.
And get this, Japan is expected to lose 40% of its working age population by 2050.
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Since 1997, inactivity has stuck at just over a fifth of the working-age population.
Only 13% of the state's voting age population voted in primary elections two years ago.
Over the next 40 years, Germany will lose more than 30% of its working age population too.
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In the 15 members of the European Union the working-age population will start to fall after 2010.
Meanwhile, the total working age population - those aged between 15 and 64 - will fall by 20m.
Meanwhile, since 2000, the white school-age population dropped 4 percent, and the white population shrank in sixteen states.
Barely more than 4% of the working-age population is jobless, and inward immigration is expanding the labour force.
Yet now that demographic patterns are set, we know the working age population will level off in three years.
Western Europe's working-age population is already shrinking, though not as fast as Japan's.
Much of the working-age population gets subsidized insurance because employer-paid health insurance premiums are not treated as taxable income.
And with the deaths concentrated in the working-age population, each new case adds to a widening circle of economic hardship.
As economist John Lott noted at FoxNews.com on October 5, the working age population grew by 206, 000 last month.
The forecast is that the working age population (15 to 64 years old) will decline by almost half to 44 million.
Like the U.S., China is expected to have a high population of retirees and a smaller number in the working-age population.
China's growth rate is bound to slow in coming years as its working-age population starts to shrink and productivity growth declines.
Its workforce is shrinking: incredibly, the working age population is likely to fall by around a third between now and 2050.
One obvious consequence will be pressure on the social-insurance system, including health care and pensions, as the working-age population shrinks dramatically.
They make up one-fifth of the school-age population in the United States and will be 30% of the adult population by 2050.
The latest figures show that unemployment in the Falkirk areas stands at about 2, 872 - or 3% of the working age population.
Out of a voting-age population of 2m, only 130, 000 caucused in 2004.
Between 2010 and 2050, the ratio of those age 65 and over as a share of the working age population will almost double.
With the working age population on the rise, it said employment levels before the downturn would not be regained until at least 2020.
This is troubling news for America, where the over-65 share of the voting-age population will rise from 17% now to 26% in 2030.
As the country gets richer and its working-age population starts to shrink, that growth rate is likely to tail off to perhaps 8% soon.
In the college-age population in general, moreover, homicide is the second leading cause of death, while on college campuses it remains a rare event.
Today, about 58% of the working age population has a job.
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The number of people over 65 will be equivalent to 60% of the working-age population in Europe in 2050, compared with only 40% in America.
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