Demographics 37: What does “Aging population” actually mean?
I have seen this phrase “aging population” appear in the media for years, probably decades. It’s confusing as it applies that we are somehow making more old people. What they…
36-Demographics: Differences of Young versus Old – and how to pay for it?
The young tend to spend more on products. Think of buying a home and then needing to (eventually) add furnishings, kitchen utensils, laundry machines and so on. The old tend…
35-Demographics: Huge social benefits programs do not increase fertility rates
Nonsense – this issue is global and not just the U.S.: The most important reason for America’s deepening baby bust is that it has become much more difficult for millennials…
34-Demographics: Emerging Europe’s population may decline to early 1900s levels over coming century
Source: bne IntelliNews – Population decline to take Emerging Europe back to the early 20th century
22-Demographics: An important reason to develop international skills
I added a big update to this post so adding this link as a new, updated quick look: 22-Demographics: An important reason to develop international skills
Public health: They did everything right but still got Covid
Why mitigations and lockdowns were mostly useless: For more than two years I basically lived like a hermit to avoid just this scenario. Sure, after getting vaxxed and boosted I…
Media notices disease model projections mostly worthless
Predictions about the pandemic rarely age well. In the United States, the pandemic appeared to be winding down in May 2021 amid a vigorous vaccination campaign, only to get wound…
33-Demographics: Shortage of health care workers
This is all over the country: Similar scenarios are playing out all over Oregon. A lack of qualified healthcare workers, which began before the pandemic and worsened after COVID-19 hit,…
32-Demographics: India schools see decline in enrollment
Schools in India also seeing a decline in enrollment due to decline in births: According to the study, enrollment is a function of population, therefore a reduction in the number…
31-Demographics: Media catching on to the population decline
The Demographic Outlook: 2022 to 2052 | Congressional Budget Office (cbo.gov) Previous analyses of Census Bureau estimates make plain that the nation’s population growth has ground down to a historic…