September 2026
15Sep

Japan centenarian population reaches 100,000 as welfare costs rise

The number of centenarians in Japan now exceeds 100,000 for the first time, a milestone that highlights the country’s remarkable longevity as well as the mounting costs of caring for its rapidly ageing population. The number of people who are 100 years old or older climbed to a record 107,677 as of Sept 15, according to a Health Ministry report released that day. The tally has risen sharply over the decades, from just 153 centenarians when records began in 1963...

September 15, 2026
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10Sep

US’s Solo Aging Crisis Is Here

Most people spend decades planning for the financial risks of retirement. Almost no one plans for the social ones. Yet the risk that derails the final chapter of life is rarely running out of money. It is running out of people. Roughly 28% of Americans age 65 and older now live alone, according to Census and KFF Health News data, up from about 10% in 1950. More than 38 million Americans of all ages currently live alone, the highest share...

September 10, 2026
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08Sep

Ageing Well for Indigenous Peoples: Closing the Health Equity Gap

On August 10, International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was observed–a day to honour the cultures and traditions of Indigenous populations. There are an estimated 476 million Indigenous people globally, living across 90 countries and representing more than 5000 different cultures. Despite the vast diversity in social, cultural, economic, and political characteristics, Indigenous peoples face similar adversities, rooted in common histories of colonialism and oppression that removed ancestral lands and aimed to destroy cultural identities. Indigenous populations worldwide...

September 8, 2026
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07Sep

South Korea. Prepare for era of extreme aging

Korea is on course to have the world’s oldest population by 2060, overtaking Japan. The projection is more than a demographic curiosity. It is a warning that one of the world’s most advanced economies is approaching an unprecedented test of its pension, health care, labor and fiscal systems. According to a 2025 report from the U.S. Census Bureau, the share of Korea’s population aged 65 and over is projected to rise from 20.3 percent last year to 41 percent in...

September 7, 2026
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01Sep

Global pension asset allocations and debt markets

Pension fund investors have been typically viewed as some of the most dependable investors in global bond markets. Their long-term obligations make government and corporate debt a natural fit: bonds offer predictable income which matches future retirement payments, and support relatively stable portfolios. However, that relationship is changing. Recent research has shown that demand shifts by pensions move asset prices and that they in turn respond to yield curves. For example, Aldunate et al. (2025) show that Chilean pension...

September 1, 2026
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01Sep

Australia. Age pension dependence down

Australians are relying less on the age pension to fund their retirement as their super balances grow, according to Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) research. The study revealed about 56 per cent of people aged 65 or over now receive a full or part age pension compared to 70 per cent in 2012. Average superannuation balances for people aged over 15 were $202,644 for men and $164,206 for women in 2023/24, up from $192,119 and $154,641 in the previous...

September 1, 2026
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01Sep

Asia’s aging population will redefine retirement, care—and independence

Over the next decade, Asian families will transfer an estimated $10 trillion—nearly twice the size of Germany’s GDP—to the next generation. Yet there’s a nuanced story emerging behind that headline figure. As people live longer, they’re rethinking how preserve their own independence while still passing enough wealth to their children. Asia is the fastest-aging region in the world. Fifteen percent of its population is over the age of 60; that share is projected to rise to 26% by 2050, according...

September 1, 2026
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August 2026
31Aug

An aging population in China inspires a new industry: Adult children for hire

Available for rent to a lonely grandparent: the companionship of an adult child. In China, where a low fertility rate and a rapidly aging population are swelling the number of lonely elders, young men and women are hiring themselves out as “shared” or “outsourced” children. These surrogates, mostly in their 20s and 30s, provide companionship rather than specialized medical care, visiting, chatting, helping clients set up smartphones or accompanying them to medical appointments. Advertisements abound on Chinese social media, where rates...

August 31, 2026
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28Aug

Healthy Longevity as Regenerative Capital: AI-Enabled Prevention, Senior Re-employment, and Climate Risk

By Jules SADEFO KAMDEM Population ageing and climate change jointly threaten the functional capacity that sustains autonomy, labour supply, productivity, and fiscal resilience. This paper develops a continuous- time, age-structured model in which healthy longevity is a regenerative form of human capital. Cohort health is exposed to biological depreciation, a standardised heat-stress state, diffusion risk, and marked compound-Poisson losses. Prevention, climate adaptation, education, and effectively accessible artificial intelligence can offset avoidable depreciation. AI is accumulated as a depreciating capital stock...

August 28, 2026
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26Aug

The Most Important Longevity Term You’ve Probably Never Heard of

What if there was a single metric that could capture every aspect of your health — how strong you are, how clear your vision is, how sharply you think? That’s the goal of intrinsic capacity, a holistic measure of what someone’s body and mind are capable of. “It’s not really a sexy term,” but it makes sense from a scientific perspective, said Dr. John Beard, a professor of productive aging at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health who helped...

August 26, 2026
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