George Schultz 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.

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

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

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

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.

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

Out of the 1.2 billion people in India, one-third of them are between the age of 1-14 and by 2030, India will have a dynamic and youthful workforce of about 700 million with an average age of 35. This is expected to constitute a substantial proportion of world's workforce.

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.

Demography is destiny.

Demographic transformations are dramas in slow motion.

Demography drives the economy.

I don't feel that 40 is anything these days. Our life expectancy is so much greater that maybe 50 is the new 40.

The happy problem of our time - longer life.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

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.

People over 100 are the fastest-growing group in America. People soon will be working 'til 100 - some because they have to - and living 'til 125 or even 135. What do I know, I'm just a weatherman, but I've made a hobby of studying this, and it's phenomenal.

Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.

Who are benefits promised to, overwhelmingly? Well, they're promised to older people. And if you have a society like Europe that is upside down where there are a lot more older people than younger people, you have economic calamity.

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

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.

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.

I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.

Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.