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Demographics and population

  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Portugal
    Portugal seeks to become low-tax haven for young people

    Centre-right government bets on 10 years of tax breaks to stop brain drain

    Pedestrians cross a street in front of a tram in Lisbon, Portugal
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    News in-depthUK employment
    Why are a rising number of young Britons out of work?

    A record 35% of people aged 18-24 were classed as ‘inactive’ this year, driven by a mental health crisis

    Montage shows an anonymous young person against a backdrop of FT data
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    OutlookAmy Kazmin
    Italy’s single women fight for the right to IVF

    Currently the government only permits heterosexual, married women to undergo treatment

    Family having breakfast together
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Immigration drives fastest UK population growth for half a century

    Official data highlights country’s demographic challenges

    Shoppers on Oxford Street, London
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Pensions
    Japan’s biggest pension fund faces more pressure to deliver

    Changes to GPIF’s investment policies to take on more risk have been lauded — but the country’s system is under strain

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Why eight Tokyo minutes from office to metro is too long

    The city is seeing a boom in commercial construction but labour scarcity has made location a critical concern for companies

    Commuters stand on the platform and look at their phones as a train pulls into the metro station
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Pensions
    Tomorrow’s pensioners face up to working — and saving — for longer

    Despite opposition, governments are forcing through changes to make pension systems sustainable

    A group of elderly individuals sit together on a bench in a park, engaging in conversation
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    News in-depthUnited Arab Emirates
    The UAE’s growth plan to boost ranks of Emiratis

    Trend for smaller families prompts concern among locals who are outnumbered 9 to 1 by migrant population

    Arab family playing ball
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Young women are starting to leave men behind

    Men’s education deficit is increasingly becoming an employment, earnings and outcomes gap, with significant repercussions

    Four people stood in line, with the first two women and second two men
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    What, me? Retire? Just because I’m 80?

    Older workers are sticking around and that is no bad thing

    Illustration of an older woman drinking coffee while working at a laptop. A pair of spectacles, some books and a picture of a child are on her desk
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    News in-depthChinese society
    More Chinese women graduate but jobs and equal pay still elude them

    Women under-represented in Stem subjects at university and afterwards are quizzed about plans to start a family

    Graduates at Wuhan university
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Chinese society
    China to raise retirement age for first time since 1978

    Beijing battles demographic crisis and pressure on pension system by keeping population in workforce for longer

    Two elderly men play Chinese chess at a park in Beijing
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    UK public finances
    UK government finances are on an ‘unsustainable’ path, watchdog warns

    Demographic pressures and the costs of climate change will weigh on the public finances, says OBR

    An elderly woman holding pound coins
  • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
    Enuma Okoro
    How can women navigate later life?

    There is power to be gained in living on one’s own terms

  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    News in-depthIran
    Iran’s urban youth falling out of love with marriage

    Religious chiefs push for more weddings and more children to avert future population decline

    An Iranian woman shops for wedding dresses
  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    Making old age better is possible — and necessary

    The UK government needs to look abroad for inspiration

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a younger person’s hand with a butterfly on a string, reaching out to the hand of an elderly person
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Reader callout: are you concerned about social care costs?

    Care home costs have been rising steeply

  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Japanese society
    Japan woos military recruits with bigger steaks and better beds

    Military tries to reverse recruitment shortfall as population shrinks and ages

    Soldiers at an army garrison on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Frieze Seoul 2024
    Korea’s Generation MZ art collectors come of age

    Driven by fashion and the fear of missing out, millennials and Gen-Z members are hungry for artworks under $50,000

    View inside an art storage room. On a table at the front is a white sculpture of Winnie the Pooh in front of a jar of honey. Bright paintings can be seen on moveable shelving units
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Anne-Marie Slaughter
    For business, DEI should be an economic priority

    Regardless of your political stripe, adapting to demographic change is essential

    Annie Carlo-Blasi, queen of Little Italy, standing beside grocery store in Chicago, Illinois, 1914.
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Working It19 min listen
    What managers get wrong about Gen Z

    Chloe Combi spoke to 20,000 young people so you don’t have to

  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Inside BusinessEleanor Olcott
    What Shein’s supply chain says about the future of Chinese manufacturing

    Factory workers are deserting the garment industry as the population ages

    Workers producing garments at a textile factory that supplies clothes to fast fashion e-commerce company Shein in Guangzhou
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    The one advantage of an ageing world

    The chaos that was normal in the 1960s is rarer now

  • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
    Simon Edelsten
    If populations are declining — how can investors make the most of it?

    An ageing, shrinking population will add to pressure on wages and pensions — but there are opportunities

  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Why is New York shrinking?

    Look over here, like I live in hell? I’m running wild like rats in Taco Bell

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