📢 文末扫码进群，免费领取双语精读版Developed economies need to be better prepared for a drop in younger workers.Financial TimesDemography24 Feb, 2024 | 625 words | ★★★☆☆By the end of this century, almost every country in the world could have a shrinking population. Although people are living longer due to advances in healthcare and a decline in poverty, they are also having fewer babies. Over the past 50 years, the global fertility rate — the total number of births per woman — has roughly halved to 2.3. In most advanced economies it is already well below the replacement rate of 2.1, where the population replaces itself from one generation to the next, taking into account mortality. Developing nations are on a similar downward trajectory.The upshot is a decline in the working-age population across the developed world, which will bring significant social, economic and political costs if left unaddressed. Some blame a dystopian outlook among millennials
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