I wonder how much age and general ossification are playing a factor. Germany is essentially the oldest nation in the world at the median (very close to or beyo

I wonder how much age and general ossification are playing a factor. Germany is essentially the oldest nation in the world at the median (very close to or beyond Japan's figure). The median closing in on being 50 years old, is going to tend to crimp the output of the labor base vs the population scale (active workers vs retired ratio). The only offset to that is either extreme productivity increases (have to make your remaining workers far more productive), or immigration. I rarely hear anything about the kind of high-skill immigration efforts that, for example, Canada is known to pursue the past few decades. Germany should be a tech juggernaut.