Of equal concern, some large public universities are planning to reduce enrollment in the coming years or to keep it stagnant, despite a projected boom in the college-age population over the next decade.
"We've reached the point where our working-age population over the next 30 years grows by one-fifth, and our elderly population grows 100 percent," said Jim Kessler, the senior vice president for policy at Third Way.
The third is demography, where the supply shortages reported in this survey should blind no one to the fact that 23% of the increase in the world's working-age population over the next five years will be in India.
But although many people say "four million jobs in the last two years" reverently, as if it were an amazing achievement, it's actually a rise of about 3percentt, not much faster than the growth of the working-age population over the same period.
Jeffrey Passel and D'Vera Cohn of the Pew Research Centre, a research institute, have calculated that immigrants will account for 82% of all population growth between 2005 and 2050, and for all the growth in the working-age population over the same period.An 11m-strong queueThe arguments are beginning to sink in even in Washington.
A much-ballyhooed report was published about the pressure on budgets that can be expected from an ageing population over the next 40 years.
The ONS also revealed the extent to which Britain will be made up of an increasingly ageing population over the next two and a half decades.
Martin Baily and Jacob Kirkegaard of the Peterson Institute in Washington, DC, reckon that raising actual EU retirement ages to the official age would offset the impact of an ageing population over the next 20 years.For that to happen, working practices and attitudes need to change.
The figure plots the level of disability recipiency (disability beneficiaries as a share of the working-age population) over time for each country.
The average change in the first term due to the changes in the working-age population over all 263 regions was only −0.7% with a standard deviation of 3.3%.
With ethnic minorities (mainly black and Asian communities) set to account for over half the growth in the UK's working-age population over the coming decade, it's vitally important that all minority groups, Asians included, contribute more to UK science and technology.
