Toshihiko Fukui Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Europeans are really dying out!

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

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

The point of our demographics is that we're not having as many children and the population is stagnant, if not declining. So without immigration, we're not going to have the population.

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.

As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.

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

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

I think ageing demographics is a bigger issue in China than people think. And the problems it creates should be become evident as early as 2016.

This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.

The biggest development in reproductive biology is the birth-control pill. Nobody ever talks about it, but look at the consequences: demographics; aging populations; the sinking population of Europe, Japan; immigration. It's incredible.

If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

I think America may be growing up and accepting the fact that the bulk of life exists beyond 50. Because demographically... the vast population is over 50.

It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.

We have so many people retiring that we do not have enough people paying into the system to be able to provide the benefits for those collecting those benefits.

When the social security age was first established as 65, most people didn't live to be that old.