Ageing Populations/ Economic Challenges

Special research series exploring the vast structural issues facing economies as societies rapidly age

Many of the world’s largest economies, including China, will age rapidly over the coming decades, with potentially significant impacts on labour markets, public finances, economic growth, inflation, and financial markets. To help understand how population ageing will shape the global economy and markets over the next 30 years, this series of work will analyse the lessons that can be learned from countries that have aged the most in recent decades and the implications for those about to age rapidly.