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    Demographics and population

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    • Sunday, 28 May, 2023
      Pilita Clark
      What we get wrong about ageing and work

      There is no consistent evidence that older workers are any less productive than their younger counterparts

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      News in-depthChinese society
      Life in China’s oldest county exposes challenges of demographic crisis

      Primary schools become old people’s homes and factories struggle to find staff as population ages

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      Liberalism’s problems are problems of success

      But solutions proposed by ‘national conservatives’ have difficulties of their own

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
      You can’t pin workforce problems all on Gen Z

      Managers must take time to help ease the anxieties of a Covid generation

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      LexAgeing Populations
      Longevity start-ups: hefty funding fails to find fount of youth Premium content

      Human life appears to have an upper limit that has yet to be extended

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Personal Finance
      UK children receive above-inflation earnings boost

      Young people’s spending and saving habits contrast with decline in parent and guardian’s inflation-hit earnings growth

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Angela Saini
      From Russia to America, the politics of patriarchy

      Concerns about population are key to understanding how nations and their armies behave

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      Ageing populations ‘already hitting’ governments’ credit ratings

      Higher rates combined with rising pensions and healthcare costs are set to weigh on states’ finances

    • Tuesday, 16 May, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      There’s no such thing as a digital native

      Technology is changing too rapidly for us to assume that the next generation will fully understand it

    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      Residential property
      Bullish on the ‘burbs

      “We are at or past peak demand for urban apartments”

    • Friday, 5 May, 2023
      Isabel Berwick
      Stop moaning about Gen Z grads — they might teach us something

      PwC and Deloitte say new hires lack communication skills. But should these recruits conform to boomer workforce rules?

    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
      German economy
      Germany looks to immigration reform to arrest worsening skills shortage

      Labour minister says legislation aims to ease entry for foreign workers, combat ‘desperate’ need for staff and tackle demographic decline

    • Monday, 1 May, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The risk of an urban doom loop for America’s old-line cities

      Ailing metropolitan centres need creative solutions from the public and private sectors

    • Sunday, 30 April, 2023
      LexPensions
      Pensions: savers should factor cognition into investing choices Premium content

      Investors must know their strengths and weaknesses

    • Sunday, 30 April, 2023
      The Big Read
      How education became the new faultline in British politics

      A growing number of voters are graduates and they are becoming less likely to back the Conservatives, threatening to redraw the country’s electoral map

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
      ‘I’m 22 and I earn more than my parents’

      Young workers on high salaries find financial advice hard to come by

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Visual story
      ‘India’s century’: can the most populous nation unlock the potential of its youth?

      India could seize its demographic dividend — or squander it

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Global InsightJohn Reed
      India and China play down the big demographic news

      New Delhi and Beijing give little weight to long-projected population crossover

    • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
      Global migration
      World Bank calls on countries to improve their pitch to foreign workers

      Multilateral lender says economies with ageing populations must compete to attract and retain talent

    • Monday, 24 April, 2023
      India passed China as world’s most populous country in April, UN says

      Country’s population set to grow for several decades, while the number of people in China declines

    • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
      News in-depthChinese employment
      China urges jobless graduates to ‘roll up their sleeves’ and try manual work

      State media says university-leavers should put their professional ambitions on hold and consider lower-skilled roles

    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      Weaponising population growth is a dangerous and regressive road

      Countries that are losing demographic ground may fall back on old tricks to force women to bear children

    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      London’s parasitical housing market is driving away young families

      Sky-high property costs are forcing thousands to flee the capital, leaving a trail of closed primary schools behind them

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      India to overtake China as world’s most populous country this year

      UN data marks a historic shift for the two Asian rivals

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      ‘Population anxiety’ fuelling harmful fertility policies, says UN

      Overlapping global crises have led to fears of both high and low birth rates, research finds

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