The best solution to the economic problems of population ageing is for people to work longer.
The study does not identify the specific causes of these job-related attacks or whether firefighters have an overall greater risk of dying from heart problems than the rest of the population, but does note the unique hazards of the profession.
Development groups are nervous about attempts to define a hierarchy of global problems with population at the peak.
And you can see that in urban areas all across the country where communities that may have been hollowed out when manufacturing left, or were having problems because of an aging population, suddenly you see an influx of immigration, and you see streets that were full of boarded-up buildings, suddenly they're vibrant with life once again.
Mr. RAFEAL RICARDO JIMENEZ DAN (Deputy Interior Minister, Venezuela): (Through translator) The fact is that confronted with a hugely deteriorated society, with profound inequalities and growing poverty, the first efforts of the government were directed towards resolving the problems with nutrition, health, and education of the population.
Within the initiative of Joint Programme targeted at creation of new income generation opportunities and promotion of improved agricultural practices, 24 rural farmers and dehkhans (small farmers) in target areas were selected to form a network of agriculture extension agents (rural consultants) responsible for provision of consultancy services to rural population and solutions to the problems they might face in application of new agricultural practices.
"Rising fuel prices and the increasing concentration of the population in urban areas is bringing about serious logistical problems for the delivery of food, " he says.
However, it does nothing to address the underlying problems of rising health costs in an ageing population.
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Perhaps 15% of the population have such problems, mainly women.
However, Russia has also made a great deal of under-appreciated progress in addressing these problems to that point that its natural population change is noticeably better than the largest member of the European Union.
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The building of more freeways in relatively low-population areas will not solve the congestion problems in the cities where the concentration of buyers is located.
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Given Japan's fascination with gadgets, perhaps it's no surprise that the country is turning to technology for help with one of its most vexing problems: an aging population.
The departure of such a large portion of the male population causes extra social problems at home.
Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said the government was looking for radical solutions to the "chronic problems" of congestion and rising traffic levels due to population growth and under-investment.
The death penalty is also more common in some places than others: Texas imposes it about 40 times as often as New York, a state of comparable population and with similar crime problems.
For example, if 20 percent of check engine light problems reported came from a certain vehicle but it made up only 10 percent of the vehicle population it would have an index of 2.00 (20 percent divided by 10 percent).
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The Welsh government says a quarter of Wales' population will experience mental health problems at some point.
It points to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, which in 1999 concluded that a mere 0.6% of America's adult population had serious problems with gambling.
In the future, will population decline present a host of economic and political problems some of which will be very serious?
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Mr Sharif's own reforms, such as sharp cuts in tax rates, although generally welcomed, still fail to address bigger problems: not least increasing tax revenue in a country where less than 1% of the population pays any income tax at all.
This, the inevitable result of a pay-as-you-go system in an ageing population, is the cause of the programme's long-term financial problems.
Dr. Yamashita, of Fukushima Medical University, said that, though radiation exposure for the general population has likely been low, evacuations and fear of radiation could lead to problems such as increased consumption of alcohol and stress-related illnesses.
Sam Zell, the chairman of Equity Group Investments, opined that Europe faces problems stemming from both its sovereign bureaucracies and its aging population.
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Overall, 4.5% of adopted individuals had drug-abuse problems as identified by Swedish medical, legal and pharmacy records, versus 2.9% of people in the general population.
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