In 2021, there were 17 people aged 65 and over for every 100 people aged 20 to 64 (this is the so-called “old-age dependency ratio”); by 2050, there will be 29 for every 100. So far ...

We hear a lot of chatter in the business media about productivity these days—specifically how it could decline in the U.S.

This increase in the so-called old-age dependency ratio (OADR) means fewer working-age people to pay for the health and pension benefits of a growing older population. Recently, the growing OADR has ...

The relevance of declining birth rates to left-wing concerns, like welfare-state sustainability, is more complex than ...

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The Economic Survey 2024-25 on Friday made a case for scalability of pension coverage to bring more people under the social ...

In 2021, there were 17 people aged 65 and over for every 100 people aged 20 to 64 (this is the so-called “old age dependency ratio”); by 2050, there will be 29 for every 100. So far ...