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GDP per person of working age rose at more than double the rate of Germany, faster than Britain and close to that of the US.

There has been a strong tendency for more women of working age to participate in the labor force.

The question of how to finance the long-term care of the elderly, and disabled adults of working age, has long vexed politicians.

The net result was higher unemployment and a lower share of the working-age population employed than in the United States.

Demographers expect the size of the working-age population to peak sometime in the next five years or so, and then gradually decline.

In Denmark the working-age population is already shrinking, but a larger proportion of this smaller population is actually working.

Immigration would not, on current trends, make up the shortfall in the working age population.

Until now most of the debate about such matters has concentrated on Japan, where the working-age population has already begun to fall.

Japan's ugly demography, with a shrinking working-age population and a growing grey-haired one, helped the downward pressure on wages.

And here one is talking of a pension industry where both the employer and employee, while the employee is at a working age, contribute.

Over the coming decade the region's working-age population, which until now has been rising slowly, will shrink by some 0. 3% a year.

This study examined the drinking patterns in working-age adults and did not include individuals under age 25.

'We enjoy a demographic dividend in terms of a growing working-age population in a world that is aging very rapidly, ' Mr. Singh said.

China's growth rate is bound to slow in coming years as its working-age population starts to shrink and productivity growth declines.

A bulge of better-educated young people of working age is entering the job market and birth rates are beginning to decline.

The labour force, the share of the working-age population that either works or wants to work is growing at a strangely subdued rate.

In other Asian countries, the bulge in the working-age population that India is now experiencing brought rapid economic growth.

More significantly, the size of the workforce will shrink as the prime working age population declines.

In other words, those of working age will have to support a vastly increased number of dependants.

This dividend refers to an increase in the rate of economic growth due to an increase of people of working age.

As the country gets richer and its working-age population starts to shrink, that growth rate is likely to tail off to perhaps 8% soon.

Soon afterwards the working-age population began to shrink.

Indeed, as the share of working-age adults in the population shrinks, there will be a greater reliance on productivity to drive GDP growth.

The working-age share of the population began to fall.

Villages in the countryside have been drained of almost everyone of working age, leaving only the very old and the very young.

Three out of four peasants of working age have floated to industrial and commercial employment.

As societies grow richer, and start to move from high fertility to low, the size of their working-age population increases.

There will be a decline in the number of people of working age (15-64) in France, Italy and Germany over the next decade.

And, with a working-age population that is already shrinking, more women and older people than before are seeking work.

The number of elderly people living off pensions is rising as the working-age population falls.

But by 2030 , the CSIS predicts , the contraction in the working-age population will reduce growth by 0. 7 percentage points a year .

Methods: Participants were volunteers of working-age, free from prior mental disorders and recruited via occupational health centres.

The decline in the working-age population can be offset by making it easier for surplus labour to migrate into cities.

The number of foreigners of working age began to fall in the second half of 2009.

Average income for a household of people of working age, by contrast, has fallen five years in a row.

Over the next few decades the ratio of elderly dependants to people of working age will rise steeply, from 10% now to 40% by 2050.

If China maintains its rapid economic growth, the decline of working age population share and absolute number will trigger wages'rising.

It is probably not surprising that the group at the prime working age is most susceptible to economic variations, the authors wrote.

Europe's working-age population is about to start declining; Japan's is already doing so.

In rural areas, a sizable proportion of the working-age population commutes to the city each day for work.

What matters more than absolute numbers is the population's composition of prime working-age people versus dependents.

a. The statistic showed that the young people accounted for 25% of the population at working age across the world in 2007 .

Insurance is provided mainly to working-age urban residents, often through their employers or government agencies.

It has roughly half as many dependent children and retired people as working-age adults now.

In 1950, 5% of men at the prime working age were unemployed.

It found that the rate of employment among working-age people had declined in the past decade.

India's population, in contrast, will grow by 300 million working-age persons over the next 40 years.

Previous Asian booms have been powered by a surge in the working-age population.

In a few years the working-age population will peak.

As things stand, the rural areas bear the cost of raising children to working age.

As the working-age population rises-as it did, for instance, after the baby boom-asset prices rocket because of increased demand.

The ratio is the proportion of people too young or too old to work to the number of working-age adults.

Generally speaking, aging of the population will lead to relative decline of working-age proportion in the population.

Eventually the bulge of energetic, working-age people becomes a bulge of dependent, elderly ones.

The number of adults of working age without children who live in poverty has changed little in a decade (see chart).

Transportation, commuting and child care costs weigh on working-age Americans.

Only 58% of the world's working-age women were involved in the paid workforce compared with an average of 83% for men.

Slums however also often include large numbers of unemployed people of working age, and children who are not attending school.

These will come mainly from making working-age benefits for poorer households stingier.

As a whole, working-age adults 18-64 also saw increases in poverty, as well as whites and Hispanics.

Employment rates in Slovakia, Hungary and Poland hover at or below 60% of the working-age population, compared with Denmark's 77%.

Unemployment remains high, and a shocking 1. 5m Poles of working age are not economically active.

The period of greatest potential, when the working-age population is disproportionately large, is not open-ended.

This comes amid pressure from rising wages as China's working-age population begins to decline.

China's great "demographic dividend" (a rising share of working-age adults) is almost over.

Western Europe's working-age population is already shrinking, though not as fast as Japan's.

In industrialized countries, the number of people reaching retirement age is growing, while the number of working age people is declining.

However, that's only about as fast as the working-age population grew.

Even in China, with its one-child policy, the ratio of retirees to the working age population will be less than 30 per cent in 2025.

The last decade has witnessed a decline in the share of the world's working-age population (aged 15 years and older) that is in work.

In South Asia, in contrast, the share of the population of working age will continue to rise until 2040.

Within two generations the number of people of working age increased by 37m and Japan went from ruins to the world's second-largest economy.

Among those of working age, women earn just 77% of their male counterparts.

Businesses needed to bring more old people and women into jobs, to counter the decline in the working-age population.

Add those to the mix and about one in four men of prime working age lacks a full-time job.

Almost two-thirds of working-age women with dependent children work.

That matters because it means the working-age population will shrink. It could also drain savings as the elderly tap their nest eggs.

During the boom years, a big influx of working-age foreigners helped to increase Britain's overall output.

This is a microcosm of China's broader worries about ageing and the coming rise in the number of dependants for each working-age adult.

Do all employees currently meet the minimum legal working age?

The working-age population taxes itself to support its parents, in the hope and expectation that its children will do the same.

The overall population will start to grow faster than that of working age.

About half of all working-age Americans experience chronic back pain at some point.

When Labour took over, more than 5m working-age adults subsisted on state benefits.

Yet the proportion of working-age taxpayers will be only about half as big as now.

South Korea is already getting older fast, and even China's working-age population is forecast to start declining from 2015.

As recently as 1990, working-age Japanese outnumbered children and the elderly by seven to three.

The participation rate, the share of the working-age population in the labour force, remained stuck at 64. 2%, the lowest since 1984.

Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of vision loss in adults of working age (20 to 65 years) in industrialized countries.

Median income for working-age families was actually $2, 100 lower in inflation-adjusted terms in 2007 than it had been in 2000.

Indeed, the US's working age population will have grown by about 30 per cent, whereas China's will have dropped 3 per cent.

America's labor force is 154. 4 million people strong, or about two-thirds of the working-age population.

In 2009, people over 65 were outnumbered ten to one by the working-age population.

second, the ratio of old people to the working-age population, or the old-age dependency ratio.

Children are scarcer, the elderly are not yet numerous, and the country has a bulge of working-age adults: the "demographic dividend" .

The working-age population will shrink so quickly that by 2050 it will be smaller than it was in 1950.

If current trends continue, the ratio of working age people to retirees will fall from six today to two in 2040.

Methods The age, working age, diploma and professional title of refresher physicians were analyzed in our hospital from 2005 to 2009.

So many Americans have given up the search for a job that only 58 percent of the working-age population was employed in July, a 28-year low.

By 2050 the country will have almost as many dependents as working-age adults, and half the population will be over 52.

In 1990 almost six people of working age supported each retiree.

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The United Nations predicts China's working-age population will peak in 2015 and plunge by 23 percent by 2050.

Many European countries fail to make the most of their working-age population, even as that population is poised to shrink.

In 1995, just before the economy started to lose steam, the working-age population hit its high point, at 87m.

The population of working age will continue to rise for several decades, whereas in China it is expected to fall .

Many people lack educational qualifications (23. 2% of working-age residents, compared with a national average of 12. 4%).

Russia's working-age population will fall by 17m.

The crux is in the working-age population, aged 15-64.

Working-age Brazilians have an average of 4. 1 years of schooling, compared with six in China.

In addition, India's prime working-age population will overtake China's in 2028.

Under the revised formula, working-age poverty increases even higher, to 14. 8 percent.

It has around eight people of working age for every person over 65. By 2050 it will have only 2. 2.

Today, there are three working-age Europeans for every one over 65.

That is especially important when people of working age are taken.

By 2050, there will be seven over-65s for every ten working-age adults.

The share of the working-age population has soared from 47% in 1975 to 64% in 2010.

S. and, in 2050, there will be about 248 million working-age Americans -- and 860 million Chinese.

A widening age gap exists between the older populations in the West and the large working-age populations in developing countries.

The working age population will shrink by 23% from 2015 to 2050.

It is projected to add 35 million working-age persons by 2050.

In 1950, there were 12 people of working age for every person age 65 or older.

The ratio of Japanese aged over 65 to those of working age rose from 14% in 1980 to an estimated 34% in 2008.

In 1970 there were 75 dependents for every 100 adults of working age.

The vast majority of people who reach working age during a downturn still look for a job.

UN projections show that, in 2050, for every 100 Americans of working age there will be 35 people over 65.

Between 2000 and 2007 the number of dependants per 100 working-age Egyptians fell from 69 to 55, according to government statistics.

The growth in the working-age population is expected to drop from an annual rate of 1. 3% in 2005 to 0. 1% by 2015.

Unemployment. Only 46 percent of the working-age population has a job.

Today, there are about 948 million working-age people in China and about 202 million in the United States.

Consider, for example, the situation among men of prime working age.

In 1985, 15-year-olds to 29-year-olds made up 47 percent of the working-age population in China.

By then, there will be 438 million Chinese aged 60 or over, or 61 for every 100 adults of working age, up from just 16 in 2005.

For example, the share of working-age women in the labour force rose by 11 percentage points between 1990 and 2010.

Study on the relationship between bone mineral density and working-age, blood lead and blood calcium

The working-age population is falling at a faster rate;

having no proper job despite being of working age, hiding in the daytime and going out at night;

The OECD expects Japan's dependency ratio (of working-age to retirement-age citizens) to fall to 1. 2 by 2050 and Germany's to 1. 6;