See, without explanation as to why the trends beyond 2010 or 2012 continue on that upwards slope the data is USE dot LESS.
There are explanations that you can search out for yourself, to satisfy yourself.
What I still see is worst case speculation presented as "fact" to promote a political agenda. Before you try to say the UN isn't political let me put my drink down so I don't spray it all over the screen laughing.
Politics is politics, even as found in academia. The UN is a political body just as the Bureau of Labor Statistics is for the U.S.
"United Nations" is NOT the name of a scientist or statistician and statistics are BS unless they are accompanied by a document detailing exactly how they were collected and applied. Speculative analysis reporting is even more BS unless the report is properly supported with SOW used, and so forth ... you know, things you should already be familiar with given your profession.
Again, this data shows that the graph you posted that I keep calling "bupkis" is just that. It had
dependent populations at 70% of working populations by 2050, something that would not seem realistic when it goes to age 64 and given the statement above that only
22% will be age 60 or higher (which would make that <20% age 65 or higher) and fertility rates of 2.5 (in 2005, projected to drop to 2 by 2050).
Did you read the graph?
The 70% dependency ratio is for developed countries, only.
Quoting from post 3302
http://appraisersforum.com/showpost.php?p=2283846&postcount=3302
The 22% applies to the total world population. Makes a difference? :laugh:
Too bad you don't bother to read, you just make bogus claims.
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