You Are Even Poorer Than the Government Thought Murdoch's 'I'm Not Buying the Lot Now' Didn't Exactly Put the Kibosh On the Conspiracy Theorists
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Adair Turner, the brainiac former director general of the CBI, was fizzing over with excitement the other day about the population calculator on the United Nations website (esa.un.org/unpp). At the click of a mouse, it'll tell you everything you could possibly want to know about global demographics, from the fertility rate in Vanuatu to forecasts of how many women there are likely to be in Italy, aged 18 to 23, in 2050.
It's hours of fun, if you're that way inclined. But it's been of particular use to Turner, because he has been charged by the Government with assessing whether we in the UK are making sufficient financial provision for our old age. And he can't take a stab at that without knowing roughly how many of us will be working and paying taxes in decades to come, to support a retired population.See the full content of this document
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You Are Even Poorer Than the Government Thought Murdoch's 'I'm Not Buying the Lot Now' Didn't Exactly Put the Kibosh On the Conspiracy Theorists
Anyway, according to the UN, the outlook for the UK in this respect will deteriorate. Dividing the population into segments of 15 to 59-year-olds and 60-pluses - as crude proxies for wealth- generators a...
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