Toshihiko Fukui Quotes

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.

Europeans are really dying out!

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

Year by year, we, the citizens of Russia, are getting fewer and fewer…. We face the threat of becoming a senile nation.

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

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?

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

There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

While prosperity and longevity arrive together, they cannot be treated the same. With greater wealth, people in Asia may not have to work as many hours as they do now. But living longer means they will have to work more years, not fewer.

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

Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

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.

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.

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

It's extremely hard for the economy to grow when the workforce is shrinking.

A country which does not create children is destined to die.

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

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

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.