Lauren A. Johnston is visiting senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide. She is founder and managing director of New South Economics.
There is more to a country getting old than economic decline

Elderly people assembles national flags at a nursing home in Beijing in May 2021: China's one-child policy has induced rapid aging of its population that the country now faces premature economic stagnation. © Reuters
Lauren A. Johnston is visiting senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide. She is founder and managing director of New South Economics.