Chart of the day: Who adds labor and who doesn't

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 12:01AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett in Chart of the day, China, India, US, demographics, global economy, global trends

From WSJ column by David Wessel--always good.

This is the most interesting demo slide I've seen in a long while. Already put it into the brief.

What I note:

1. the decline of Europe and Japan (almost off the chart--pun intended)
2. how closely China's trajectory mirrors Old Core Europe
3. America as Old Core outlier without peer
4. India's fantastically long "golden hour" of declining ratio of dependents to workers--much longer than China's was.

But it's the numbers that jump out at you. Between now and 2050 we add 35m workers, China loses 100m and India gains 300m.

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