Population by Age and Sex for China, India, and United States: 2020 and 2060

I see this and am reminded that people focusing on the US/the west for CO2 emissions is not going to matter much for the long run.

Yes I get per capita is way out of balance, exporting our manufacturing to China, etc. But point is the future of our climate will be up to what China, India, and maybe Africa does. The US and west is shrinking away population-wise in comparison.

It feels like the current global economy is based on a pyramid scheme. (Pyramid shaped distribution) when it becomes an inverted pyramid that is going to be rough.

It will be interesting to see how China fares over the next 40 years. The US is currently going through a time of a large cohort of 60+ individual, but nothing like what China is projected to experience.

The closest comparison I can think of is what Japan is currently experiencing, but that is a drastically different country with a drastically different government.

This is a very effective visualization for illustrating age breakup in a population.

I wonder if they are called doner kebab charts. You know, in the tradition of pie charts.

The United States will have to open up to millions of immigrants to retain its power into the 21st century.

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