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Assess the challenges for countries with the largest shares of aged populations.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Population and Settlement Geography

A society is conventionally "ageing" at 7%, "aged" at 14% and "super-aged" at 21% of population aged 65-plus — the scale that grades severity, and one Japan crossed in 2007.

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  • Ranked First: Labour-Force Contraction as the Binding Constraint
  • Ranked Second: Pension Systems Built for a Ratio That No Longer Exists
  • Ranked Third: Long-Term Care, the Deficit Money Cannot Fill
  • The Geographer's Challenge: Collapsing Settlement Thresholds
  • Judging the Policy Levers: None Sufficient Alone
  • The Slow and Finite Levers
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