The landscape for older workers has changed dramatically in recent decades. Governments
have made cuts to public pension programs, private pensions have shifted from defined …

BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017
(GBD 2017) includes a comprehensive assessment of incidence, prevalence, and years …

Background Population estimates underpin demographic and epidemiological research and
are used to track progress on numerous international indicators of health and development …

BACKGROUND: With a growing share of older people in almost every population,
discussions are being held worldwide about how to guarantee welfare in the immediate …

Fear of population decline, censuses to warn of it, and pronatalist and other policies to avert
it are almost as old as states themselves. Rulers and states in the past and present, and …

ABSTRACT A prolonged working life is crucial for sustaining social welfare and fiscal
stability for countries facing ageing populations. The group of older adults is not …

Demographic trends in Japan are producing a declining population that is rapidly growing
older. With a total fertility rate of around 1.3 children per woman, the population has already …

BACKGROUND Demographers are increasingly interested in connecting demographic
behaviour and trends with 'soft'measures, ie, complementary information on attitudes …

This paper analyzes some of the important impacts of Japan's unprecedented population
aging on its postwar economy, by drawing heavily upon the computed results of the NTA …

In contemporary Japan, the utilization of healthy elderly persons in economic production is
one of the most urgent policy matters. In this paper, we have measured the untapped work …