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Demographics and population

  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    What, me? Retire? Just because I’m 80?

    Older workers are sticking around and that is no bad thing

    Illustration of an older woman drinking coffee while working at a laptop. A pair of spectacles, some books and a picture of a child are on her desk
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    News in-depthChinese society
    More Chinese women graduate but jobs and equal pay still elude them

    Women under-represented in Stem subjects at university and afterwards are quizzed about plans to start a family

    Graduates at Wuhan university
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Chinese society
    China to raise retirement age for first time since 1978

    Beijing battles demographic crisis and pressure on pension system by keeping population in workforce for longer

    Two elderly men play Chinese chess at a park in Beijing
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    UK public finances
    UK government finances are on an ‘unsustainable’ path, watchdog warns

    Demographic pressures and the costs of climate change will weigh on the public finances, says OBR

    An elderly woman holding pound coins
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Enuma Okoro
    How can women navigate later life?

    There is power to be gained in living on one’s own terms

  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    News in-depthIran
    Iran’s urban youth falling out of love with marriage

    Religious chiefs push for more weddings and more children to avert future population decline

    An Iranian woman shops for wedding dresses
  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    Making old age better is possible — and necessary

    The UK government needs to look abroad for inspiration

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a younger person’s hand with a butterfly on a string, reaching out to the hand of an elderly person
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Reader callout: are you concerned about social care costs?

    Care home costs have been rising steeply

  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Japanese society
    Japan woos military recruits with bigger steaks and better beds

    Military tries to reverse recruitment shortfall as population shrinks and ages

    Soldiers at an army garrison on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Frieze Seoul 2024
    Korea’s Generation MZ art collectors come of age

    Driven by fashion and the fear of missing out, millennials and Gen-Z members are hungry for artworks under $50,000

    View inside an art storage room. On a table at the front is a white sculpture of Winnie the Pooh in front of a jar of honey. Bright paintings can be seen on moveable shelving units
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Anne-Marie Slaughter
    For business, DEI should be an economic priority

    Regardless of your political stripe, adapting to demographic change is essential

    Annie Carlo-Blasi, queen of Little Italy, standing beside grocery store in Chicago, Illinois, 1914.
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Working It19 min listen
    What managers get wrong about Gen Z

    Chloe Combi spoke to 20,000 young people so you don’t have to

  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Inside BusinessEleanor Olcott
    What Shein’s supply chain says about the future of Chinese manufacturing

    Factory workers are deserting the garment industry as the population ages

    Workers producing garments at a textile factory that supplies clothes to fast fashion e-commerce company Shein in Guangzhou
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    The one advantage of an ageing world

    The chaos that was normal in the 1960s is rarer now

  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Simon Edelsten
    If populations are declining — how can investors make the most of it?

    An ageing, shrinking population will add to pressure on wages and pensions — but there are opportunities

  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Why is New York shrinking?

    Look over here, like I live in hell? I’m running wild like rats in Taco Bell

  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Why Hungary’s lavish family subsidies failed to spur a baby boom

    The country led by Viktor Orbán spends 5% of GDP on trying to raise birth rates, but increases have levelled off

    Burjan Bence and his wife Julia Scharle play with their three children front of their house in Budakeszi near Budapest
  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
    Edward Luce
    Pennsylvania is slipping from Trump’s grasp

    Kamala Harris gains ground with crucial Hispanic voters in swing state that could decide 2024 US election

    Donald Trump dances as he departs after speaking at a rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania
  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
    Albert Park
    Asia’s ageing population could deliver a ‘silver dividend’

    Over time, investment in healthcare can ensure a healthier older generation that is more productive and requires less care

    Smiling elderly Japanese people wearing facemasks
  • Friday, 16 August, 2024
    Inheritance
    How do you plan to deal with the Great Wealth Transfer?

    FT Money wants to hear about your experiences

    Different generations of a family on a beach
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Working It
    How Gen X mentors help Gen Z staff to thrive

    Younger workers expect career support, and your older staff may be the best people to offer it

    A woman stares at her laptop looking bored
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    China’s milk producers target adults as population ages

    Intense competition forces companies to seek out new areas of growth in one of world’s biggest dairy markets

    An elderly man shops for milk formula in a supermarket in China
  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    What has surprised me about childlessness

    There are some perverse outcomes amid all the fun

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    The Latino swing voters who could decide the US election

    A demographic that historically leaned Democrat is slowly drifting to the right. In a tight race, this shift could seal the party’s fate

    Montage: Alberto Olivares, left, and Claudia Alcazar, right, are among the Starr County residents who support the Republicans
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Anjana Ahuja
    Rising rates of cancer in young people prompt hunt for environmental culprit

    That many of the cancers are gastrointestinal offers clues and could point to microplastics

    A man stands in the middle of red circle amid an even darker shade of red beyond that
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