The World in 2015: Global population and the changing shape of world demographics
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Animating the changing shape of the world population pyramid. For more multimedia content from The Economist visit our website: http://econ.st/1xqEZhX.
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Just gotta destroy hospitals, solves everything. Old people spend so much money to live just a few days more. They need to be less selfish and support the young people more. E.g. invest their money on the future of the world, not the future of themselves. Think about this. Retired people don't contribute much to society if they're in hospital. They can contribute by teaching maybe but really, they're using the world's resources without any reciprocation. This is what fucks the world up, especially for us younger people. If us younger people start to think less selfishly and live our lives to the fullest while we're young, we'll be happy to die when we're older and there will be no way to get an upside down pyramid. I don't know how to explain it. But basically I'm saying: People shouldn't strive to live for so long because it is unnatural to do so and detrimental to society.
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let's lower retirement age
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We need World War 3!
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Our Maximum Age Is 120 Only..
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Failure to mention that all of the growth is coming from the poorest social groups across the planet.
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Have more babies people!
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This estimate seems kind of true, but as estimation goes anything is possible.
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wow
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in 2:57 the economicst said buuuuuuut.
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Christianuep I'm with you. The world has not a rat plague but an man plague.
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Well I been telling people for years that our planet is over populate but many of them tell me that I am a moron because we don't even cover most of the planet, I told him that you don't need to cover every single inch there's also other species and parts of the planet that also required space, we are not the only ones here....
I work on the road a lot and it just kills to see wild life wondering on highways, mayor roads, going to neighborhoods disturbed and disoriented such as deers and their baby deers, coyotes, etc... and somethings finding them dead on the side of the road... we need to put a stop to all this... -
When is the next episode? I've been waiting for so long
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Geriatrics are living longer up to 100 these days. Pretty crazy and also a problem.
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The politics of nations will have to change, as many of the policies operate under the assumption we have a pyramid based population.
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Less people - better. Humans destroy natural world, turn forests into deserts. If this species continues to grow in numbers, it will be the end of this world
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In my opinion, the change is due to many chronic diseases from environment issues. So, why not have an illustration of geographic areas that are affected by this evolving environmental and social elements facing the underserved populations!!!
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We need a war to save us!
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until a new flu kill all childrens and old people
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china has a higher male life expectancy than europe?
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I am very curious about the software that produces those terrific graphs and animations. What is it?
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