And get this, Japan is expected to lose 40% of its working age population by 2050.
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Over the next 40 years, Germany will lose more than 30% of its working age population too.
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Meanwhile, the total working age population - those aged between 15 and 64 - will fall by 20m.
Yet now that demographic patterns are set, we know the working age population will level off in three years.
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.
Its workforce is shrinking: incredibly, the working age population is likely to fall by around a third between now and 2050.
The latest figures show that unemployment in the Falkirk areas stands at about 2, 872 - or 3% of the working age population.
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.
Today, about 58% of the working age population has a job.
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Since June 2009, when the recession ended, the working age population has grown by 4.8 million, while the number of Americans working or looking for work has declined by 0.9 million.
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Given that people who move to Russia tend to be of working age, the working age population has stabilized in contrast to earlier expectations of a rapid contraction in the labor force.
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By 2015, their population will be so large, that unless the US economy grows like an emerging market, tax revenues from the working age population will unlikely be able to cover the social security and medicare expenses of retired persons.
You might think, then, that if we looked at the average number of hours worked by all those of working age - dividing the total number of hours worked by the working age population - Germany would come out on top.
Like the U.S., China is expected to have a high population of retirees and a smaller number in the working-age population.
The red line is the percentage of the working-age population in the labor force.
Since 1997, inactivity has stuck at just over a fifth of the working-age population.
In the 15 members of the European Union the working-age population will start to fall after 2010.
Barely more than 4% of the working-age population is jobless, and inward immigration is expanding the labour force.
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.
China's growth rate is bound to slow in coming years as its working-age population starts to shrink and productivity growth declines.
One obvious consequence will be pressure on the social-insurance system, including health care and pensions, as the working-age population shrinks dramatically.
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.
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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The elderly on Medicare and the poor on Medicaid use more medical services, and therefore are at greater risk for poor care, than the working-age population.
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The unemployment rate actually rose, to 9.1%, in May: the rate of job creation is barely keeping track with the natural increase in the working-age population.
In September 2011 about 16% of the working-age population in Wales claimed out-of-work benefits, compared to an average of 13% in Great Britain, according to Welsh government statistics.
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