On one hand, the decrease in fertility rates in past decades and on the other the higher life expectancy at older age have caused a sharp increase in the current old age dependency. The trend of population ageing shows no sign of a turn, quite the opposite: The world population is expected to age at increasing speed, cf. Slide 3.
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