Many European countries fail to make the most of their working-age population, even as that population is poised to shrink.

尽管许多欧洲国家的人口已经开始减少，适龄劳动力人口的就业却仍不充分。

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After rising by 1.3% a year during the decade to 2005, the population of working age is expected to increase at an annual rate of 0.7% until 2015, and then shrink by 0.1% a year until 2025.

在到2005年为止的十年中人口的工作年龄每年增长1.3%，此后预计将每年以0.7%的速度增长到2015年，然后每年减少0.1%到2025年。

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While China is about to see its working-age population shrink (see article), India is enjoying the sort of bulge in manpower which brought sustained booms elsewhere in Asia.

ECONOMIST: China and India