One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows

Re:One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows by jahnu on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:29PM (#37573278)

This animated projection of their population pyramid shows the future quite neatly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_pyramid_of_Jap...

Used on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan

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Re:One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows by 8lahaj on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:44PM (#37573459)

Wow that's pretty grim.

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Re:One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows by RGamma on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @04:02PM (#37575679)

It actually gets better toward the end as the working age/pensioner ratio increases and average age decreases (visual estimation). It's getting over the "lump" that's gonna be painful.

That said there's no way the population will actually evolve like that...

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Re:One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows by gota on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:55PM (#37573651)

2055 is going to be the roughest. Eyeballing it looks like by then the current 'lump' of 45-50 will make it above 80, with not enough replacement of younger folks

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Re:One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows by tetris11 on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:13PM (#37573908)

Dating as an 80 year old man must be insane though with all the surplus women. I bet someone will cater to that specific market.

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Re:One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows by glimshe on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @07:40AM (#37582960)

Considering that men die a bit earlier, at this point this man is looking for a nurse, not a girlfriend...

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Re:One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows by biscottigelato on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @02:14PM (#37573915)

This assumes thew birth rate holds steady at what it is today (1.1 or something?).

My suspicion is that the birth rate will actually trend lower...

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Re:One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows by sbierwagen on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:19PM (#37574975)

South Korea is already down to 0.78 https://www.npr.org/2023/03/19/1163341684/south-korea-fertil...

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Re:One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows by og_kalu on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:24PM (#37575053)

South Korea is Japan on speedrun lol.

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Re:One in 10 Japanese Now Aged over 80, Population Report Shows by rcarr on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:23PM (#37575039)

I'd also suspect it doesn't take into account that medical and safety tech is likely only going to improve. If people live longer, the pyramid is going to become even more top heavy.

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