Max Roser of "Our world in Data" has blogged his update of the world population pyramid which gradually morphs into a population box: the increase in world population is not from more children - we are beyond "peak child" - but from more old people. In the past our global neighborhood was full of noisy children, now it is becoming a neighborhood of old fogeys.
I wonder what that change will do to (i) innovation and entrepreneurship, which tended to be the domain of the young, (ii) food demand, its volume and composition, and (iii) migration where the old tend to be less mobile than the young.
Here is Max Rosner's graph:
I wonder what that change will do to (i) innovation and entrepreneurship, which tended to be the domain of the young, (ii) food demand, its volume and composition, and (iii) migration where the old tend to be less mobile than the young.
Here is Max Rosner's graph:
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