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?
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?