World's Elderly to Overtake Number of Infants

Could the answer to this trend lay in a decrease in the number of these?

Courtesy of The Telegraph

The world's population is becoming steadily greyer with the number of people aged over 65 on course to overtake the number of infants for the first time in history, a study has found.

With every passing month, another 870,000 people turn 65 and the world's cohort of pensioners becomes larger still. Thanks to rising life expectancy, their ranks will soon be growing by almost two million a month and, by 2040, their numbers will have doubled to 1.3 billion.

This will reduce the size of the working population and impose huge new pension costs, threatening to reduce the overall growth of the world economy.

The US Census Bureau predicts pensioners will soon overtake the number of infants under the age of five because old people are now increasing faster than the very youngest human beings. The lines on the graph will cross within a decade, marking a decisive moment in the greying of the globe.

Richard Suzman, from the National Institute of Ageing in Maryland, which commissioned the new study, said: "Global ageing is changing the social and economic nature of the planet. The fact that, within 10 years, for the first time in human history there will be more people 65 and older than children under five in the world underlines the extent of this change."

Hmm...Interesting. These figures are not just due to rising life expectancy are they? What are the yearly figures on abortion again? Ah yes, approximately 43 million abortions worldwide, every year. Is the human race aging while less children are being born? Yep! Incredibly, observers are looking at Obama's 'Health Care Reform' plan thinking that this trend looks set to continue...unless, that is, Obama is considering a more pro-active approach to the elderly population by introducing a more euthanistic 'health service'. He couldn't be, could he? Catholic Online suggest this is very likely.