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Re:No Babies? -- Causes for the aging population of Europe by Someone on Sunday October 03, 2010 @05:55AM (#1752442)
Because of their one-child policy, China will also have an aging problem in 30 to 40 years time. Theirs may even get more of a problem, as their replacement rate may be (Chinese statistics are inaccurate, so it is hard to tell) lower than that in Europe.
Re:No Babies? -- Causes for the aging population of Europe by philwelch on Sunday October 03, 2010 @02:49PM (#1753308)
I remember hearing that China's one-child policy only applies in the cities, not in the country. If China's rural population urbanizes they won't have a demographic problem--in fact, the one-child policy explicitly makes room for the rural population to urbanize, which is a big component of development and industrialization.