This may well be the case for Japan, which has a rapidly aging population.

One is Europe's aging population.

An aging US population will cause social benefits to rise rapidly, pushing the debt to more than 100 of GDP and accelerating its rate of increase.

Indeed, given Europe s accumulated public debt and its rapidly aging population, maintaining the status quo would serve only to intensify economic crisis, threatening the euro s very existence.

Europe and Japan are both facing difficult challenges, including rapidly aging populations and sputtering economies.

We who live in rapidly aging societies, such as Western Europe or Japan, still need immigrants.

The aging population is straining the public pension and healthcare systems beyond sustainability.

Aging Metabolic syndrome affects 44 of the U.S. population older than age 50.

On this view, an aging population means a fatter population in the United States, China, Japan, and much of Europe.

Fiscal consolidation will weigh on growth prospects for two generations to come, and the welfare state as we have known it in Europe since World War II will have to be transformed, especially given a rapidly aging population.

First, with its birth rate well below replacement level, Japan s population is aging and shrinking.

Japan s aging population mutes the potential impact of both the wealth effect and animal spirits.

China s government finally appears to be acknowledging the urgent challenges presented by the country s aging population.

Moreover, China s aging population, and its strategy of boosting domestic consumption, will negatively affect global savings.

In China, labor inputs have fallen as a result of declining fertility and an aging population.

The PRC s population is aging, real wages are rising, and growth is moderating toward more sustainable rates.

This could be related to both the policies for documentation for rural workingwomen and to the aging of the population, in particular the female population.

In developed countries, too, many advocate a greater role for the state, in order to ensure that promised social benefits are delivered to rapidly aging populations.

Given Japan s aging population, there is a natural increase in the social security budget of 1 trillion per year.

However, challenges remain, due to our aging population and the increase in the number of vehicles on our roads.

In 2003, this ratio dropped to 42 , still a high value, but it reflects the process of population aging.

In 1950, the Mozambican population was of about 6.5 million inhabitants, having increased rapidly.

The number of deaths is projected to increase due to higher smoking rates and an aging population in many countries.

Most Europeans and many in other parts of the world live in rapidly aging societies. Nurseries and schools are closed while retirement homes and hospices spring up everywhere.

The population has increased rapidly in recent years, in 1990 it was slightly over 18,000.

Just as Europe s population is aging and will be shrinking, that of much of the developing world is young and growing.

Incidence and prevalence of diabetes in Manitoba is expected to continue to increase due to an aging population, enhanced screening, etc.

The population growth rate surged as the mortality rate dropped more rapidly than the birth rate.

Ireland s population decreased rapidly, from 8.2 million in 1841 to less than 4.5 million in 1901.

Given economic stagnation, the political system s weaknesses, the aging of the population, and resistance to immigration, fundamental change will not be easy.

It is not necessarily bad for Asia s traditionally high savings rates to fall after all, consumption typically rises with an aging population.

In many of the most severely affected areas, one other thing is apparent a rapidly growing population.

As the demand for donor organs continues to rise, in large part due to the aging population, the supply has remained relatively constant.

The population is aging at an accelerating rate, and the net flow of working age citizens into the labor force has turned negative.

With a rapidly aging population and a shrinking workforce, tax revenue will contract, while expenditure on pensions and health care will expand, undermining the fiscal position. Various estimates by private sector economists and World Bank officials suggest that the government s accumulated net implicit pension debt could balloon to 75 110 of GDP.

Moreover, even if it never had a financial crisis, Japan would have been plagued by adverse demographics, as its population is both aging and shrinking.

This raises the question of whether Japan s current problems sluggish growth, high public debt, and rapid population aging presage a similar trend across East Asia.

Europe is aging and will lose 20 million people by 2030, while the southern Mediterranean has a dynamic young population that desperately needs job opportunities.

Despite the high rate of HIV AIDS infections, Malawi s population, like that of many developing nations, is growing rapidly.

Cairo is expanding so rapidly that a population census would be valid for just a quarter of an hour.

Aging, the Final Frontier

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The rapid aging and decline of Japan s rural population is fundamentally shifting Japan s approach to food. The MAFF is wistfully abandoning the cherished goal of food autarky.

And, in advanced countries, a larger female labor force can help to counteract the impact of a shrinking workforce and mitigate the costs of an aging population.