17 Countries Facing An Economy Crushing Demographic Crisis

Business Insider ^ | 04/19/2011 | Gregory White

[SeekAndFind]

Economies across the developed world are facing the threat of an aging population, increasingly reliant on a shrinking working age population, according to data from the OECD.

While instances such as Japan are well known, the problem is endemic across Europe, with many countries seeing their dependency ratios, that is the amount of workers per retirees, shrink as we approach 2050.

That has the potential to cause serious funding problems for everything from social security, to pensions, to health care across the developed world, and wreak havoc on countries fiscal policies.

We've ranked the OECD countries projected to have the worst dependency ratios by 2050.

Note: We've listed all the countries in the OECD that are worse than the average dependency ratio projected in 2050. Retirees are individuals 65 years an older. Working age people are those age 20 to 64. The 2050 ratios are projections, and could change due to an increase in the birth rate, immigration, or the retirement age.

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[UCFRoadWarrior]

Whenever I read these type of articles....it sounds more and more like a Liberal Whinefest to bring in Legal and Illegal Immigrants into countries

This “too many old people” issue has been around for years.

You do not solve it by bringing in more people (The falsehood pushed by Illegal Alien Amnesty supporters here in the USA)....you solve it by keeping your nation’s wealth from leaving the country

The number one way to keep a nation’s wealth is to end Free Trade as it is practiced today. Too many western countries practice this Free Trade, which long-term redistributes wealth from their nation to another.

We already see signs of this wising up in Europe....very liberal Finland now has a pro-Finnish party with the most seats in their Parliament...a party pro-Finn and not Free Trader pro-EU

I predict, as the economic situation gets worse in western nations, that you will see more Economic Patriotism in nations...and less Free Trade.

[PapaBear3625]

Those socialists in Western Europe are in for a rude awakening if they think that young Muslims are going to be paying ridiculously high taxes so graybeard whities can have a comfortable retirement.

The young muslims are disproportionately on welfare themselves. The crisis will come MUCH sooner, like within the next few years, as the Welfare States collapse. Portugal and Greece are teetering, Spain and Italy are next. Their only way out will be to cancel the welfare state, at which point the recipients will riot.

[MinorityRepublican]

Iran has a lower birth rate than USA.