Are we entering an age of decay as birth rates fall?

Are we entering an age of decay as birth rates fall? – By Michael Cook

Most countries – even in the developing world – are entering an era of ageing and population decline. With fewer and fewer babies and more and more elderly, what does the future look like?

According to Shamil Ismail, a South African investment analysist, it looks very grim. In his book The Age of Decay: How Aging and Shrinking Populations could Usher in the Decline of Civilization, he sketches scenarios from which our politicians are averting their eyes. We will look back nostalgically, he predicts, on the years from 1990 to 2020 as a “Golden Age of Prosperity”.

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