April 25, 2024

IN BRIEF: China’s age problem; Swiss transplant blunder

Mumbai
  • After decades of the one-child policy, China may become “the first major country to grow old before it grows rich”, say US analysts for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “In Europe, the elder share of the population passed 10% in the 1930s and will not reach 30% until the 2030s, a century later,” the report says. However, “China will traverse the same distance in a single generation.” This will burden China with nearly 400 million elderly who will have no support unless pension schemes are launched soon.
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