The figures were based on the 2008 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects. Since then, the United Nations has published its 2010 revision. This appendix updates these figures and expands on them by including more European and Asian countries. The Japanese inverse dependency ratio peaked around 1990, and it was in the very next year, 1991, that the Japanese Bubble peaked.
I will therefore be falling back on the institutional memory of my brother Governors who have been here long before me and who have a greater wealth of experience and an edge on monetary integration matters than I have.