Aging Before Affluence in China

Population aging is a universal law of economic development and its accompanying social transformation. But China is unique, because it has arrived at a late stage of demographic transition at a relatively early stage of economic development.

BEIJING – Just how fast is China’s population aging, and what does a lower proportion of working-age people mean for the country’s economic development? Can – and should – anything be done, particularly to the country’s “one child” policy, to slow the trend?

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