Changing demographics are affecting nearly every part of society, while efforts to turn around the decline have so far had little impact

Changing demographics are affecting nearly every part of society, while efforts to turn around the decline have so far had little impact

  • byrona@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 months ago

    Maybe they should try working their young workforce more hours? That’ll surely get them to have kids

          • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            11 months ago

            I mean things like that take time, but the rate wi increase as well shure it will be a time of problems, but especially Japan has a shit load of completely unnecessary jobs (like the guys holding glowsticks when there is also blinking lights and barrier tape clearly marking a super tiny Building site) wich could just be removed without problems and many work places wouldn’t need so many people if the old people would stop hindering digitalization and Progress… (thats kinda true for most first world countrys)

        • wahming@kbin.social
          2·
          11 months ago

          The average age isn’t getting any younger, since there are less and less births to replace the dead.

            • wahming@kbin.social
              3·
              11 months ago

              Drop the passive aggressive BS.

              Your comment would be true IF old people were dying off and the age of people wasn’t changing. You’d be replacing 80 year olds with babies. However, it’s not so straightforward when you account for the fact that there are new people joining the 80 year old club every day.

              Put very simply - if the birth rate dropped to zero today, would the population be getting younger since old people are dying off? Of course not, on the contrary the average age is getting older because there’s more people joining the 80 year olds than the infants.

  • HubertManne@kbin.social
    1·
    11 months ago

    Ummmmmm. So yeah I have not clicked to read the article but im like pretty sure tokyo is in the millions. I have not done a search for it yet but im like sure on the level that its in millions that its hard to bother putting it into a search engine. I mean its bigger than chicago. EDITED - read the article and LOL I read it as drops to 800k not drops by 800k. Its really funny if your in my head right now.