The shrinking world: what falling birth rates do to economies built on growth

Shrinking labor pools increase worker bargaining power and wages as the demographic dividend ends.

The global population over sixty-five has tripled since nineteen fifty, straining the intergenerational welfare contract.

Semiconductor research now requires eighteen times more staff than the nineteen seventies to maintain innovation rates.

Japan uses high-value automation and robotics to sustain its economy despite a shrinking workforce.

Seventy-year-olds in twenty twenty-two matched the cognitive abilities of fifty-three-year-olds from the year two thousand.

Global population peaking by the twenty-eighties could reduce carbon emissions and environmental pressure.