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The large share of elderly, inflation-averse voters may hinder the political attractiveness of higher inflation, consistent with empirical evidence that aging leads to lower inflation. [62] Japan's aging is a major factor in the nation bearing one of the highest public debts in the world at 246.14% of its GDP.
The number of senior citizens living alone in Japan will likely jump 47% by 2050, a government-affiliated research institute said on Friday, underscoring the heavy burden the country's demographic ...
The number of elderly living in Japan's retirement or nursing homes also increased from around 75,000 in 1970 to more than 216,000 in 1987. But still, this group was a small portion of the total elderly population. People living alone or only with spouses constituted 32% of the 65-and-over group.
In developed countries, the number of centenarians is increasing at approximately 5.5% per year, which means doubling the centenarian population every 13 years, pushing it from some 455,000 in 2009 to 4.1 million in 2050. [103] Japan is the country with the highest ratio of centenarians (347 for every 1 million inhabitants in September 2010).
According to a 1998 United Nations demographic survey, Japan is expected to have 272,000 centenarians by 2050; [5] other sources suggest that the number could be closer to 1 million. [6] The incidence of centenarians in Japan was one per 3,522 people in 2008. [7] In Japan, the population of centenarians is highly skewed towards females.
This list of countries by life expectancy provides a comprehensive list of countries alongside their respective life expectancy figures. The data is differentiated by sex, presenting life expectancies for males, females, and a combined average.
By 2050, the potential support ratio is projected to drop further to reach 4 potential worker per older person. The reduction of potential support ratio has important implications for social security schemes, particularly for pay-as-you-go pension systems under which taxes on current workers pay the pensions of retirees.
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