Falling birth rates and the case for the working robot

Though China gets most of the attention, there are two dozen other countries that also face projections their populations will halve by 2100, leaving a shrunken workforce in many nations.

Though there are projected declines in the overall world population by 2100, there will still be plenty of hungry people in the poor countries eager to move to the rich ones—and a growing shortage of labour in the rich countries, writes Gwynne Dyer Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 19, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—Birth rates are falling fast in all the world’s more prosperous countries, but the generation now in their middle age have not yet grasped what that means for their later years. If they end up needing some sort of assisted living, either at home or in...

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