Resumen de Japan's ageing population points to our global future
The announcement that Japan's population fell by almost a quarter of a million in 2013--the fifth consecutive annual fall--brought warnings that the country may be in terminal decline. The stagnation of the last decades is a symptom of problems brought on by demographic change, according to Reiko Aoki, an economist at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, in 2013. The proportion of Japan's population that is dependent on those of working age isn't unusual, he says, its just that it has almost twice as many over-55s as children.
