​This Is The Chart That Keeps Japanese Policymakers Up At Night – Tyler Durden

This Is The Chart That Keeps Japanese Policymakers Up At Night Japan has a demographic crisis that started in 2017 and picked up steam in 2020 and will accelerate from there into at least 2050… as a high life expectancy and a low birth rate has created an unprecedented aging population. As a simple and effective measure of that ‘crisis’, we look at the old-age dependency ratio measures the number of people over the retirement age of 65 for every 100 working-age people. The higher dependency ratio means fewer workers are supporting a growing number of retirees, which strains social…  — Continue at ZeroHedge News : Read More