Japan is the fastest aging nation in the world. Now that we're closer to 2050 than 2000, how will that affect the generation now coming of age? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/japan/society/japan-2050-predections-depopulation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #depopulation #aging #demographics #teens #elderly #comingofageday #lifeexpectancy #rurallife #women039sissues
Imagine a software error assigned two people to the final #conference speaking slot and you have to decide which person is removed from the program.
Guess which factors predicted whether people #canceled a speaker.
(The survey respondents were 1540 German citizens.)
(1) Speaker #demographics, publication output, and public endorsement of controversial policies predicted greater odds of being canceled.
(2) Those factors had lower odds of being canceled when people were instructed to decide as intuitively as possible.
@quixoticgeek Consider that the fall of Russia is largely down to economic mismanagement—they failed to transition from a resource extraction economy to a skills economy, and they're losing the war because resource export chokepoints are vulnerable to air attacks—and the AI bubble is due to investors seeking shelter for their capital.
I don't understand it but these look like huge pieces of a 21st century jigsaw puzzle (energy transition from oil to renewables, end of Moore's Law hitting tech).
Everyone forgets #India. There's a plausible case to be made that India just waits out the now inevitable demographic timebomb that has been ticking away for years in the Russian Federation, and just takes over the Russian Far East by dint of being the majority people left there.
I first came across this idea via a random recommendation of #ElviraBary, but xe is not the only person talking about this.
Japan must address its declining population through technology, global markets and immigration, while adapting socially and economically to demographic shifts that pose challenges to growth and sustainability. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/30/japan/graying-japan-needs-globalization-and-immigration/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #japaneseeconomy #grayingpopulation #demographics #gdp
South Korea’s fertility crisis reflects not only economic constraints, but also a widening gap between social norms and women’s needs and aspirations. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/22/world/south-koreas-baby-bust/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #southkorea #marriage #demographics #children #women039sissues
Disinformation is filling the vacuum left by an absence of a national discussion on Japan's growing influx of foreign nationals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/12/japan/japan-needs-a-serious-immigratiuon-discussion/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #immigration #shigeruishiba #japaneseeconomy #demographics