World. THE BIG QUESTION: Are Retiring Baby Boomers About To Crash The Stock Market? Countries. World Stock Indexes. World. US & Canada. Harvard Business Review - Ideas and Advice for Leaders. Population decline. Population decline can refer to the decline in population of any organism, but this article refers to population decline in humans.
It is a term usually used to describe any great reduction in a human population.[1] It can be used to refer to long-term demographic trends, as in sub-replacement fertility, urban decay, white flight or rural flight, but it is also commonly employed to describe large reductions in population due to violence, disease, or other catastrophes.[2] Definition[edit] Sometimes the term underpopulation is applied to a specific economic system. It does not refer to carrying capacity, and is not a term in opposition to overpopulation, which deals with the total possible population that can be sustained by available food, water, sanitation and other infrastructure.
"Underpopulation" is usually defined as a state in which a country's population has declined too much to support its current economic system. Changing trends[edit] Statistical misreadings[edit] Japan[edit] Population ageing. Population ageing is a phenomenon that occurs when the median age of a country or region rises due to rising life expectancy and/or declining birth rates. There has been, initially in the more economically developed countries (MEDC) but also more recently in less economically developed countries (LEDC), an increase in life expectancy which causes the ageing of populations. This is the case for every country in the world except the 18 countries designated as "demographic outliers" by the UN.[1][2] For the entirety of recorded human history, the world has never seen as aged a population as currently exists globally.[3] The UN predicts the rate of population ageing in the 21st century will exceed that of the previous century.[3] Countries vary significantly in terms of the degree, and the pace, of these changes, and the UN expects populations that began ageing later to have less time to adapt to the many implications of these changes.[3] Overview[edit] Ageing around the world[edit]
The Impact of Baby Boomers' Retirement on the Stock Market | Finance - Zacks. The Baby Boomer generation and the “lump of labor" theory - Market Realist. Is Baby Boomer retirement more good news for stocks and labor markets? (Part 3 of 13) Available labor: An unprecedented decline The below graph reflects the same data as the prior graph, though as a growth rate in percent of total workers since 1970. As the U.S. population has grown, and both Baby Boomers and women have entered the workforce since 1970, we’ve seen extraordinary growth in the U.S. labor pool. This bubble in the labor pool was just beginning to deflate in 2008 as the oldest of the Baby Boomer generation, born in 1946, just began to retire.
As we look forward, the Baby Boomer exodus from the workforce continues, and as we pointed out in the first graph in this series, the U.S. population growth rate has declined to 0.70% per year—less than half of the nearly 1.70% population growth rate associated with the Baby Boomer generation. Enlarge Graph Available versus unavailable workers Implications of slow population growth Overall, the shrinking labor force paints a mixed picture. As tax revenues recover, is this the end of a vanishing act? - Market Realist. Must-know 2014 US macro outlook: The crack in the debt ceiling (Part 8 of 10) Corporate profits and investments The below graph reflects the dynamics of savings and investment in the USA versus consumption and corporate profits through calendar 2013. The yellow line reflects an ongoing decline in the national savings rate from roughly 20% of gross domestic product, GDP, to 12% of GDP today.
Plus, personal savings (the green line) as a percent of disposable personal income had declined from around 10% during the Reagan years to a low of closer to 2% during the housing bubble—though personal savings have recently bounced back to near 7% as a result of the weak economy. As for investment, the grey line reflects an ongoing decline from around the 20% of GDP level to closer to 15% of GDP today, while the long-term fixed asset component of private domestic investment (the blue line) has declined from 8% levels prior to 2001 to more recent levels averaging closer to 4%.
Enlarge Graph Perhaps not.