>Between 1996 and 2016, the proportion of Australia's population aged 15-64 years remained fairly stable, decreasing from 66.6% to 65.9% of the total population

>Between 1996 and 2016, the proportion of Australia's population aged 15-64 years remained fairly stable, decreasing from 66.6% to 65.9% of the total population. During the same period, the proportion of people aged 65 years and over increased from 12.0% to 15.3% and the proportion of people aged 85 years and over almost doubled from 1.1% of the total population in 1996 to 2.0% in 2016. Conversely, the proportion aged under 15 years decreased from 21.4% to 18.8%. http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/1CD2B1952AFC5E7ACA257298000F2E76?OpenDocument http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/1CD2B1952AFC5E7ACA... If this is the first you've heard of the West and many Asian nation's pending Demographic Inversion, I suggest you do some research. China, Japan, most of the EU have serious issues ahead as a result of now going on three generations of birthrates below replacement level.