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- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmit.online
- Government data released ahead of Japan’s “Respect for the Aged Day” showed that the country’s population aged 65 and over had risen to an all-time high of 36.25 million.
- According to Robert Feldman, chief economist at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities, the data fuels concerns about demographic shifts and a labor crunch in the country.
EDIT FOR THE DOWN VOTERS:
https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023
Has it really, though? Or are they mostly unreported corpses still collecting pensions? And screwing up the data our doctors are using to tell us about “healthy living”?
Didn’t you see this the other day in the news?
https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023
Feel free to come at the story from another source, it’s legit peer-reviewed research. Of course my choice of “mostly” was exaggeration with humorous intent.