January 2025
24Jan

Is Care Affordable for Older People?

By Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development With population ageing, the demand for helping older people with daily activities – so-called long-term care – is set to increase across OECD countries by more than one-third by 2050. Older people with long-term care needs are more likely to be women, 80-years-old and above, live in single households, and have lower incomes than the average. Currently, across OECD countries, publicly funded long-term care systems still leave almost half of older people with...

January 24, 2025
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24Jan

Challenges Related to Aging Population

By Drishti The Vision Foundation The Supreme Court of India refused to entertain a writ petition that sought the establishment of a dedicated Ministry for senior citizens. The writ petition referred to senior citizens (population ageing) as a vulnerable class that deserves special attention under Article 21 of the Constitution, which ensures the right to a dignified life. Source Drishtiias

January 24, 2025
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22Jan

China Plunges Deeper Into Unprecedented Population Crisis

China's population contracted for the third year in a row in 2024 despite an uptick in births. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese Foreign Ministry by email with a request for comment. Why It Matters Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party government has been rolling out measure after measure in hopes of encouraging young Chinese to have more children. Births have overall been on the decline despite the end of the decades-long one-child policy in 2016, leaving policymakers anxious over the impact this will...

January 22, 2025
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20Jan

Pension crises ‘will start to bite’ over next decade, WEF risk report finds

Pension crises “will start to bite” over the next decade in super-ageing societies, according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Risks Report 2025. Super-ageing societies feature as a key theme in this year’s edition, which is linked to risks such as inequality and societal polarisation. A super-ageing society is when over 20 per cent of a country’s population is over 65 years old. Several countries have already exceeded that mark, such as Japan, Italy and Germany. However, many more countries across...

January 20, 2025
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20Jan

An Older America Will Be Less Prosperous, But We Don’t Have To Get Old

America is getting older. Between 1980 and 2022, the median age increased from 30 to 39. An older population will impact the country in a variety of ways, some more obvious than others. One likely yet underappreciated impact will be less entrepreneurship. A new study by Rui Zhang and Mengyao Kang published in the Journal of Regional Science finds that countries with higher shares of elderly people have fewer entrepreneurs and new businesses. The increase in America’s median age coincides...

January 20, 2025
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16Jan

The gap is widening between super-ageing and youthful populations. Experts explain the implications

The World Health Organization defines “super-ageing” societies as countries with more than 20% of their population over the age of 65 years old. From pension crises to labour shortages, super-ageing societies pose a global economic and labour market risk over the next decade and beyond, even for countries still benefiting from their demographic dividend. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025, highlights these concerns. With that in mind, we asked our in-house experts the following question: Global demographic divergence is expected to...

January 16, 2025
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10Jan

2024 Ageing Report: Economic & Budgetary Projections for the EU Member States (2022-2070)

By European Commission This report was prepared as part of the mandate the Economic and Financial Affairs Council gave to the Economic Policy Committee (EPC) in 2021 to update and further deepen its triannual projections of age-related expenditure based on new population projections by Eurostat. The work to fulfil this mandate is performed within the EPC’s Ageing Working Group (AWG). The 2024 Ageing Report provides long-term projections for public expenditure on pensions, healthcare, long-term care and education in the European...

January 10, 2025
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10Jan

The regions racing to become the “Silicon Valley” of an aging world

In 2018, when Inc. Magazine named Boston one of the country’s top places to start a business, it highlighted one significant reason: Boston is an innovation hub for products and services catering toward the aging population. The “longevity economy” represents a massive chunk of economic opportunity: As of 2020, the over-50 market contributed $45 trillion to global GDP, or 34 percent of the total, according to AARP and Economist Impact. What makes Boston such a good place to do business in aging? One important factor,...

January 10, 2025
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08Jan

UK politics needs to take a long-term view on social care

Past attempts to reform social care by both Labour and the Conservatives have failed.  The recent commission of an independent review led by Baroness Louise Casey into the state of social care provides a beacon of hope. Nicholas Barr argues that a long-term view on social care is the only plausible solution. Enjoying this post? Then sign up to our newsletter and receive a weekly roundup of all our articles. Social care in England, though a known problem, has remained chronically underfunded for decades, and has...

January 8, 2025
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06Jan

Vietnam. Declining fertility rate predicted to lead to workforce shortage

A prolonged low birth rate is forecast to directly impact the size and structure of the population, leading to consequences such as labourer shortages, rapid population aging, and population decline. Vietnam's replacement fertility rate has dropped to its lowest level in the last 12 years and is projected to continue decreasing in the coming years, according to a report of the General Department of Population under the Ministry of Health (MoH). Currently, 21 cities and provinces in Vietnam have reported low...

January 6, 2025
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