Here, too, places benefit from having a fairly old population.
Like much of Western Europe, Germany faces a large rise in the proportion of old people in its population.
Below is a plot of the historic minimum wage and the percent of all 16-19 year old individuals in the population that have a job.
But much of the projections made by this committee and other bodies that have looked at the issue of the ageing population assume old age automatically means an individual becomes a burden.
Italian governments have tinkered with the pensions system on three occasions, but have shrunk from the drastic overhaul that is needed to save Italy's greying population from old-age penury in the generation ahead.
The population is also relatively old, so health care, hitherto a Democratic subject, has been an important issue.
You can find strong statistics, and useless investment signals from butter production in Bangladesh, the US population of 9 year old kids, and now, in a dramatic breakthrough, relating average penis size to GDP growth, a key measure of stock market returns around the world.
Half the population are under 40 years old but they hold only about 15% of all financial assets.
But that is less than 0.7% of the population, and most are old.
Over 40% of the Saudi population is under 14 years old with 18% between 15-24, so similar events are plausible.
Some sort of limit on annual spending, perhaps based on population plus inflation like the old Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) in Colorado, also could be successful.
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It means our putative 24-year-old faces a future of a small working population supporting a large number of elderly people.
Nearly 20% of the population is less than 15 years old, and they'll be hanging around for a while.
The forecast is that the working age population (15 to 64 years old) will decline by almost half to 44 million.
Migrants from Java, they were dispersed as part of the Indonesian government's decades-old transmigration program, designed to ease Javanese population pressures by encouraging relocation to the outer islands.
From fishermen to homemakers, from pre-schoolers to dropouts, from teachers to municipal workers - not forgetting the very young, the very old and the marginalized - the entire local population in the Municipality of Agoo in La Union, the Philippines, has the chance to become literate or upgrade their skills thanks to its municipal authority.
According to estimates, by 2030, nearly 20% of the U.S. population will be over 60 years-old.
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Without huge improvements, according to a decade-old official estimate, by 2050, when its population will be a shade under 1.7 billion, India will run short of water.
On the other side of the world, China's National Bureau of Statistics recently announced that the share of population aged between 15 and 60 years old declined for the first time in 2012.
But the demographic challenges of the Big Orange and the Windy City pale compared to those faced by many cities in the old industrial Rust Belt, which have either lost population or posted only weak increases.
In a country in which half the population is less than 30-years-old, Ireland seems to be teeming with start-up entrepreneurs or people with aspirations to become a startup entrepreneur.
It is nice to see that RIM continues to do so well with an old product line outside of the US. The largest population of the planet lives in the countries that RIM is most dominant.
National competitiveness is a slippery and sometimes incoherent idea, but a coherent version is to take it to mean a population with the human capital to adapt when old jobs go away, and shift quickly out of dying industries and into growing ones.
They keep bumping into old school friends, realising that they were joining a sizeable population of migrants from the borough.
Real town meetings--I mean the old-fashioned kind in which a town's voting population meets annually to bicker, gossip, elect councilmen, vote on bond issues--are anachronisms today, surviving only in a few eccentric backwaters of Ye Olde New England.
Plovdiv has all the services and attractions of a major population centre, but it especially takes pride in its old town.
Congress began trying to provide old-age insurance for something close to 100% of the population as early as 1939, before the first Social Security benefits were paid.
In that spell, the old have accounted for more than 90% of Lichfield's net population growth.
But it could also slow down the ageing of the population and, by changing the ratio of young workers to old people, give time for the creation of a decent social-security system.
In some places, "the wolf is coming back, nature is taking over, so to speak, and it's really literally only old people" left, says Harald Wilkoszewski, a political scientist with Population Europe, a collaborative network of European demographic research centers.
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