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That’ll be a lot of countries soon. “By 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be aged 60 years or over. At this time the share of the population aged 60 years

That’ll be a lot of countries soon. “By 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be aged 60 years or over. At this time the share of the population aged 60 years and over will increase from 1 billion in 2020 to 1.4 billion. By 2050, the world’s population of people aged 60 years and older will double (2.1 billion). The number of persons aged 80 years or older is expected to triple between 2020 and 2050 to reach 426 million” https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ageing-and-health https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ageing-and-...

postdb 4y ago
we don't really have a over population issue, unless some how we figured prolong the life span of all people in the next few decade. Countries like China will have population deflation problem in the coming decades.
- ido 4y ago
  It’s been long predicted that world population will peak by mid-century and then slowly decline.
- dangond 4y ago
  It's still possible we'll face lots of problems from having too many elderly people who aren't working, even if we won't have problems from overpopulation itself.
lelanthran 4y ago
> “By 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be aged 60 years or over. At this time the share of the population aged 60 years and over will increase from 1 billion in 2020 to 1.4 billion. By 2050, the world’s population of people aged 60 years and older will double (2.1 billion). The number of persons aged 80 years or older is expected to triple between 2020 and 2050 to reach 426 million” All of this has a statistics smell to it - why aren't they giving us the expected percentages instead of the expected absolute numbers. IME, the only time authors give numbers that don't have any frame of references is when their argument is weak or nonexistent. "Is the fooflam reliable?" "Yes - we have had only a single return of all flooflams sold"[1] [1] Neglects to mention they only sold five.
- zamnos 4y ago
  I mean, you're asking them to predict the future. And not just a few years, but population growth for the next 27 years. Not trying to predict that doesn't make it a trick of statistics.
  - xboxnolifes 4y ago
    Commenter isn't asking them to predict the future, they willingly gave their prediction without being asked. Commenter to asking for them to share the half of their prediction they are hiding.
usrusr 4y ago
Let's hope so! So much better than being the generation holding the bag when the reset happens.
kmlx 4y ago
italy in 2020: > 55-64 years: 14% > 65 years and over: 22.08% from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy

postdb 4y ago

we don't really have a over population issue, unless some how we figured prolong the life span of all people in the next few decade. Countries like China will have population deflation problem in the coming decades.

ido 4y ago
It’s been long predicted that world population will peak by mid-century and then slowly decline.
dangond 4y ago
It's still possible we'll face lots of problems from having too many elderly people who aren't working, even if we won't have problems from overpopulation itself.

lelanthran 4y ago

> “By 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be aged 60 years or over. At this time the share of the population aged 60 years and over will increase from 1 billion in 2020 to 1.4 billion. By 2050, the world’s population of people aged 60 years and older will double (2.1 billion). The number of persons aged 80 years or older is expected to triple between 2020 and 2050 to reach 426 million” All of this has a statistics smell to it - why aren't they giving us the expected percentages instead of the expected absolute numbers. IME, the only time authors give numbers that don't have any frame of references is when their argument is weak or nonexistent. "Is the fooflam reliable?" "Yes - we have had only a single return of all flooflams sold"[1] [1] Neglects to mention they only sold five.

zamnos 4y ago
I mean, you're asking them to predict the future. And not just a few years, but population growth for the next 27 years. Not trying to predict that doesn't make it a trick of statistics.
- xboxnolifes 4y ago
  Commenter isn't asking them to predict the future, they willingly gave their prediction without being asked. Commenter to asking for them to share the half of their prediction they are hiding.

usrusr 4y ago

Let's hope so! So much better than being the generation holding the bag when the reset happens.

kmlx 4y ago

italy in 2020: > 55-64 years: 14% > 65 years and over: 22.08% from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy