U.S Population Growth Has Nearly Flatlined, Is That So Bad? (September 14, 2022)
The New York Times article considers future possible outcomes of U.S. Population Growth.
“To see how population stagnation or even decline need not spell disaster, you can look at countries where it’s already occurring, as Daniel Moss, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asian economies, did last year. Take Japan: ‘Despite the caricature of the country as an economic failure in the grip of terminal decline, life goes on,’ he wrote. ‘True, growth in overall G.D.P. has been fairly anemic in the past few decades, but G.D.P. per capita has held up well.’ What’s more, he added, Japan’s unemployment rate is very low and has remained so throughout the pandemic (it was 2.6 percent in July).” |
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