Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: The OECD recently issued its annual Society at a Glance report which highlights and compares trends in income, age, and other vital statistics across countries. There is simply too much good information in this report to cover it all here, so to look over all of its various aspects, check out the report for yourself here: Society at a Glance 2011.
One interesting aspect of the report highlights trends in the age of the global population. In the charts below we compare the percentage of the entire OECD population above the age of 65, as well as the percentage of the population in BRIC and G7 countries above the age of 65. As shown in the top chart, 14.61% of the population within all OECD countries is currently above the age of 65 years old. Between now and 2050, this percentage of the population will increase to 25.66%.
Not surprisingly,
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