The word “demography” triggers a glaze-over mechanism in the minds of all too many of us. Yes, populations are ageing, there are ever smaller cohorts of women of childbearing age and less children today mean less workers and taxpayers tomorrow. But surely the world is overpopulated, and the issue of world population decline is a problem for the future?
“人口統計學”這個詞在我們很多人的頭腦中引發了一種視而不見的機制。是的,人口正在老齡化,育齡婦女的數量越來越少,今天孩子的減少意味著明天勞動者和納稅人的減少。但世界現在肯定是人口過剩的,世界人口下降的問題難道不是未來的問題嗎?
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