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…
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
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…
30-Demographics: Where the next babies will be born in 2022
This graphic paints a picture of the world’s population, showing which countries are most likely to welcome the next 1,000 babies. Source: The World’s Population: Where Will The Next 1,000…
29-Demographics: “slowing population growth, not pandemic, at the root of U.S. worker shortage “
And just like that, UC Riverside researchers are saying the same thing as this blog: Supply chain struggles have been widely blamed for the inability to meet consumer and business…
28-Demographics: Is the decline good or bad?
Is the decline in the global fertility rate a good thing or a bad thing? Perhaps it is neither – it is what it is. The Plus Side From one…
27-Demographics: Australia seeks more immigrants to solve worker shortage
They blame the pandemic but ignore the other problem – Australia’s fertility rate is less than 1.8, meaning negative population growth from births. Australia shut its borders for more than…
25- Demographics: Pandemic policy effects on students may last decades
Just as WW2 impacted population demographics and age distributions up to the present, the policies (most of which did not work) of public health will cost society and individuals for…
24-Demographics: Portugal introduces new visa to address worker shortage
“For the promotion of orderly and regulated safe migration and in the fight against the shortage of manpower, a new type of visa has been created, specifically a visa for…
23-Demographics: Another University acknowledges fewer students
The University of Portland sees 21% of students who had made down payments for fall enrollment – disenroll. The university acknowledges that population demographics are playing a role: Some 82%…
22-Demographics: An important reason to develop international skills
We usually think of international skills as being applied when we head to other countries. But in fact, global skills will be more important than ever even if you do…
21- Demographics: Military recruiting hits demographic wall too
Military struggling to find new troops as fewer young Americans are willing or able to serve. Source: Military struggling to find new troops as fewer young Americans willing or able…