Worse than Japan: how China’s looming demographic crisis will doom its economic dream

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Yi Fuxian says a look at China’s ratio of working-age population to the elderly is ominously similar to Japan’s in the early 1990s, boding ill for the Chinese dream and the global economy as a whole

Published: 1:30am, 4 Jan, 2019

Updated: 5:59am, 4 Jan, 2019

Illustration: Timothy Mcevenue. See: www.timothymcevenue.net

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Yi Fuxian is a senior scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Big Country with an Empty Nest.