Manmohan Singh Quotes

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

The changes taking place in the age structure of the countries around the world are stunning.

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health.

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

The aging and decreasing population is a serious problem in many developed countries today. In Japan's case, these demographic changes are taking place at a more rapid pace than any other country has ever experienced.

The biggest drag on global growth in the coming decade will be demographics in the developed world.

The so-called East Asian economic miracle of the 1980s was due in large part to parents in the region deciding to have fewer children.

In a society in which the median age keeps advancing, we have no choice but to keep redefining youth.

If fertility drops much below 2.1 babies per woman, the population will shrink unless it is offset by higher immigration. For this reason, a demographic cloud hangs over China. It may be the first country to grow old before it grows rich. ... Its fertility rate is below two and its working-age population will start to decline around 2015.

The happy problem of our time - longer life.

The only acceptable way to solve ecological problems is if you can persuade people to have fewer children. In the Victorian times, there were families of 15 children. Someone like Edward Lear, he was the last of 21 children. And so what we have to think about is offering people the alternative choice. And in the West, that's what's happening. The birth rate has been dropping steadily and still is. I'm wanting human beings to be better off so they don't view children as an insurance for the future.

On the Continent and elsewhere in the West, native populations are aging and fading and being supplanted remorselessly by a young Muslim demographic.

The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.

China had managed to reduce their fertility to a large extent because of basic expansion of women's education, not because of the one-child family.

I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly

The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.

It remains to be seen which program will cause greater societal damage: China's one-child policy or America's one-parent policy.

Do you think pandas know they're Chinese and they're taking the one child policy a bit too seriously?

Europe's demography is developing towards a smaller working population in an ageing society.

Brexit and Trump are a generational revenge. This may partly be against millennial certainty and superiority, and, indeed, ageism; and it may be a natural part of population dynamics - not only are more people getting far older than ever before, but they are older for longer than they are young.

But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me.

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

I think more and more people are recognizing how much adults and elders are actually needed. That's a gift of the sibling society.