Ageing and Japan's Fiscal Position

According to an article in the Japan Times (based on data from Japan's Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry) the over 75s now constitute 10 percent of the Japanese population. This figure was 1.3 percent in 1950, when the government first started tracking such data, and rose to 5 percent in 1991 before breaking the 10 percent mark this year.As of Nov. 1, Japan's population is estimated