China has already experienced a tremendous population shift from its farms and rural areas to the cities in search of higher paying jobs.
This significant shift in population mix can fuel further growth in annuity sales for companies like MetLife.
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Selection can shift a population from life in the trees to life on the ground by tiny steps but only if the right kind of variation is available.
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We believe that continued high levels of population growth, demographic shift and growing middle-class in Asia Pacific region will continue to offer DuPont an expanding market for its Agricultural based products over our forecast period.
And the aging of our population is an even more dramatic shift than its increasingly tan hue.
The business depends on exports for 50% of its business, and the other 50% may not be so secure given that a stronger yen and an aging population are leading some companies to shift production out of Japan, including the likes of Toyota Motor.
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Subdivide the African population, as some taxonomists propose, and perceptions of scarcity may shift.
"I suppose that 10% mortgage rates, red ink at the companies or a major shift in demographics (immigration, household formations, aging population) would get me to change my tune, " he says.
The first is the ever-more-pronounced shift in the burden of disease among the U.S. population from acute to chronic conditions.
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.
While the shift is partly the result of the bulging U.S. Latino population over that time, it also reflects a changing U.S. job market.
Nationwide, nonwhites are expected to become a majority of the population within a generation, and schools are at the cutting edge of that historic shift.
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