Graying Planet: Top Countries with the Highest Ratio of Elderly to Working-Age Adults (msn.com)
What this chart means – in Japan, there are 51 people over the age of 64, for every 100 working people less than age 65.
Where governments provide benefits to those over age 64, paid for current labor taxes, they will have less funding to pay for an increasingly large population over age 64. The “experts” of the past few decades did not think this through – and in part, we can think arrogant experts like Paul Ehrlich and his Population Bomb which set government policies in motion for 50 years – even as the U.S. fertility rate had fallen below replacement level by 1973.
