How demographic change is shaping our future? | Silke Uebelmesser | TEDxFSUJena

What changes will we face in 20 years? In which ways will this demographic change matter? What should we do now, if we are soon fewer and older? Silke Uebelmesser turns our attention toward these and other intriguing questions.

Silke Uebelmesser is Professor for Public Finance at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and Research Professor at the Ifo Institute, Munich.
Her research covers a wide range of topics in the domain of public economics. These, in particular, comprise issues related to social policy, education and migration policy. In her work she is interested in inquiring the implications of globalization and the demographic change for the sustainability of public activities.

[devondevon]

6:27. On your pyramid graph in 2015, the ratio of workers to retirees was 2.7:1, but in 2035 (15 years from now), it will be (according to your graph) 1.66: 1 meaning just 1.66 workers will be working for every 1 retiree or 16 workers per 10 retirees. And if you look at the ratio of workers to non-workers (retirees + children+ some college students etc), it looks even worse.

[geoffreyharris]

Ok. Want to see the population decline as there are too many people in the world by perhaps a factor of 100.