Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

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

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

Hong Kong needs population growth to cope with a rapidly ageing 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

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

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

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

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

We obviously have to honor the commitments that have been made to the people who are already retired or near the retirement age. But we need to tell the truth about the fact that when we set the retirement age at age 65 in America, life expectancy was only 62.

The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.

In an ageing society, it makes sense to support older adults to develop new skills, prolonging their working lives.

A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

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.

Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession.

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

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.

When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.

People are going to be living quite soon for 100 years. Our idea of how a family works no longer applies. It's no good saying you're going to have children for 15 years and then you're going to retire and have hobbies, because you've got 40 more years to go after 60 and you're in good health until 90 or something.

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.