{"id":52066,"date":"2023-01-22T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/22\/ageing-planet-the-new-demographic-timebomb"},"modified":"2023-01-22T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T09:00:34","slug":"ageing-planet-the-new-demographic-timebomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52066","title":{"rendered":"Ageing planet: the new demographic timebomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is about to overtake China as the most populous country, but as birthrates fall we\u2019re facing life in a greyer world. Are we ready for the physical, political and financial challenges ahead?<\/p>\n<p>In Japan even criminals are getting old. In the country\u2019s notorious yakuza crime syndicates, more than half of members are now over 50, according to the national police agency.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans who have passed 70 outnumber those in their 20s by two to one, even though younger men are the groups\u2019 traditional source of \u201cmuscle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/22\/ageing-planet-the-new-demographic-timebomb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is about to overtake China as the most populous country, but as birthrates fall we\u2019re facing life in a greyer world. Are we ready for the physical, political and financial challenges ahead?In Japan even criminals are getting old. In the country\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3536,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2474,50,221,526,62,88,1222,706,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ageing","category-china","category-europe","category-france","category-india","category-japan","category-older-people","category-population","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3536"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52067,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52066\/revisions\/52067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}