The Economics of Graying Populations
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Demography, the study of populations, always carries the undercurrent of economic power dynamics. India stealing China's thunder as the most populous country on the planet has coincided with (or perhaps fuelled) Indian President Narendra Modi's push to rival China as the world's factory floor. For most countries, however, population growth is no longer a given -- in fact it's quite the opposite.
Governments are fretting more openly about their aging populations. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said earlier this year that the country is "standing on the verge of whether we can continue to function as a society."
Source Fool.com
