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World Age Distribution and Sustainability
Overlay: Planners must recognize that the United States needs to have a strong immigrant population in order to provide the workforce necessary, which, when combined with technology, will maintain economic growth. The immigrant population should in total have a low median age.
Two additional aspects of population are of particular interest to program managers. The first aspect is age distribution within a country—if it has a slowing birth rate, where are the workers going to come from and how many will be available? Part of our basic economic model is somewhat of a Ponzi scheme. ...
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