this global demographic changes refers to shifts and trends and the composition distribution and characteristics of the population around the world are. these changes are influenced by various factors including for to any rates, mortality rates, migration patterns and associated economic factors. however, there is nothing which has more of an impact on a demographic patterns in mankind and the choices of the most powerful and delete sky. now hughes and this is $360.00 view. let's get started. the, to help us discuss global and demographic trends and what the influencing factors are. we're joined by bradley sherman, now brothers, founder and ceo of the super age, a global strategic research and advisory firm helping public and private organizations understand the challenges and harness the opportunities of

demographic change with a focus on the population who is aging is also the author of the super 8, how longer life spans are changing every thing we know about work life and learning . and david, also co founder and managing partner of economy for where he led to business development in asia and europe, and served at the a rp, the world largest organization, dedicated to improving the lives of owner people. we're here with that actually the director of global partnership and engagement. welcome, brad. the quite the resume that makes you an expert in this area. so i want to start off. do you see a difference in what it, what has impacted major and global demographic shift from the past and what we're seeing today. this is the 1st time in history. we're populations are aging as fast as they are. in fact, in many countries now, one and 5 people is over the age of 65. but aging is just the prelude to population contraction. it is actually happening in the number of the worlds biggest economies,

including russia, china, and japan. so we're dealing with a lot of dynamics right now that are really up ending what we considered to be normal, the normal world and a normal economy. and because of that, we have to shift our thinking about who's able to work when they can be consumers. how we engage people in society as a whole, and whether or not g d p is really the only measure for society success. so really it all comes down to the dollar always comes down to the dollar no matter what even in this day. okay, so what do you find to be the most positive trent? reason for a trend like this to happen and we're going to start with the positive side is always positive. it's the 20th century is a success story. we extended human longevity during the 20th century and large part because we took care of kids at once. we were able to keep kids alive, they were able to reach adulthood. they were able to get to old age. we built these wonderful social welfare systems. the economy grew dramatically. these are all

positive things. these are things we should harold, the successes of our society. the challenge is that we haven't adjusted them to accommodate what we call the new longevity. the fact that the majority of people now will live into their sixties and seventies and a good number of people live in to the eighty's now as well. believe it or not, people over the age of 80 are the largest and fastest growing demographic in the world. that's incredible. compared to the pass on the side of exactly. most people didn't get there and were not ready for it as you say. and what area do you feel like where the least prepared probably in the care sector, that seems to be the one that everyone focuses on right now because population change involves 2 things. one is the aging of the population, this longevity, dividend that we're getting here. but also we're having fewer babies and we've been having fewer babies now for about 25 years. well, those children are now adults. they're working, and there are simply not enough of them to go around so, so what's happening in our economy more broadly?

is that the lack of work or is, or the inability for people to businesses to feel jobs is causing inflation to rise . the fewer people that we have mean fewer people to take care of those older adults that might be in need. so it is a bit of a challenge and we're trying to muddle through it right now. no one has the right solution quite yet. could we have been better prepared for this mean that we knew the people are going to get older? they were living longer, could we have actually done a better job of basically setting up the infrastructure beforehand to sure we could . but we have to remember that we'd like to wait. we'd like to wait until there is an actual crisis at hand. believe it or not, demographic change grew up with climate change, their siblings there by products of the industrial revolution. could we have done something to mitigate climate change? 25 years ago? yes. so did we know the same holds true for demographic change? we knew this was coming, it's been coming now for 25 years, in fact, 1st grade. so i've been declining now for about 200 years,

with the exception of the baby boom. these are a long term trends. we are well aware of them and we chose to do nothing. so there are many countries are experiencing an increase in the proportion. i guess i have older adults do to climb for to the rates and improved health care. what have felt to do you think this demographic shift not only poses to health care, but also the pensions and the social support system that these governments are going to be expected to take care of these people when the business, the private sector can't? well, i think within the health care sector, we're gonna look at radical transformation literally overnight, because everyone who's anyone who's throwing money into this right now because they know it needs to be fixed. we don't have enough bodies to take care of the people that are there with the economy more broadly. i think we have to look at a future that's much more inclusive. we talk through inclusive through the lens of diversity in terms of gender, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, but we rarely include older adults in this conversation. if we think about the fact that we're not only living older and longer or also living health here,

that means that we have extra years that we should be working, we should be contributing on. that's an exciting thing. but we tend to shop people half of 65, why we start people off at 65 when they have at least you know, 101520 years of good, healthy years ahead of them. it's, it's, it's kind of ludicrous, were cutting out possible workers impossible consumers for the economy. okay, so while the global age, as you mentioned, might be actually increasing. the fertility rates are also declining globally resulting and low birth rate, smaller family sizes. do you think this could also be a good thing? you mentioned climate change and why do you think this is happening? you know, climate change, pete, there's theories, the climate change fits into this somehow lower sperm counts for men. for example. there's also the reality that our life course has changed, and people used to have babies and their teens and their 20 smell. they have them in their thirties and they're 40 is in fact women over the age of 40 are the fastest growing group of moms in the world right now. that's pretty different. and

when you start late, you're more likely to have your children to on. but what does this mean globally? well, literally every country you go to today, i don't care what the geography is. the birth rate is in decline. now it's different from place to place in a country like niger, every woman on average is having 6.89 children can you imagine, right? but if you go to south korea, which has the lowest birth rate in the world, they're having point $78.00 children per one. so it's a radical difference in terms of where babies are being born and where populations will grow versus where populations will actually contract. what do you think is the impact on this, or why is this happening? i mean, is it because the economy? because the economic systems are mentioned, can handle it. lower income countries are having more, which basically puts on the backs of those that are of other countries. perhaps, you know, what caused demographic change to happen? well, we can look at a number of different variables. the 1st and foremost is probably organization and the industrial age, the idea of

a family farm that you actually need children to work on, children were economic tools back then. they still should be by the why. i think you can find that in arkansas right now, as the governor is actually lowered the age for, for people to worked on to 14. well, my grandfather entered the coal mines at the age of 14. i don't think we're going in that direction. i would say this a good day because i mean there was a lot of or if there was a reason why we took the children out of the coal mines at 13 and 14 and put them in school. exactly. we believed in investing in use because investing in youth was the future. well, what we did with all of these interventions, getting kids out of factory is getting them off the fields, making sure they had a stable, stable of food supply, making sure they're clean water. all of these contributed to children moving from a one and to chance of dying before the age of 18 as to a nearly 9095 percent chance of surviving into adults. these are all good things, but what that did during that period was explode the global population. we went

from about 2000000000 people to 8000000000 people today. that is a disruptive change. now as we go into this new era, we're actually looking at a more historical norm for society, where we'll have slow growth in some nations, plateauing and others, and some decline in others to. we are still growing. here. we are still growing here in the united states were growing cause our birth rate isn't to off did about 1.7. it needs to be a 2 point one to keep population study. but we still haven't regression here. immigration is the story of america. and as long as people are coming in, the country continues to grow. well, you mentioned that we do have immigration here, but these are coming from less well off countries that are still continuing to produce more than just the one child that they americans select that can hold. so are we kind of setting ourselves up on this railroad disaster because to certain extent, who we can't afford the reason why people are not having more children. i believe here in america or in the western countries, they can't afford to have more children. it's, it's, it's in part because they can't afford to do it. that's what

a lot of people focus their energies on is the cost of having a child and my god, it is expensive. but the reality is people have more choices now than they did a 100 years ago. women are educated, women have the right to vote. women have the right to work on that change. it's a dynamic we, we can have access to birth control. and yes, even abortion and preventative, preventative birds. so when you take all of these things together, women are more in the driver's seat, of their reproductive health. choosing or not to choose to have children. they're also economically viable. they're not, they're no longer dependent on demand. they're no longer the primary caregiver or the primary homemaker anymore. so because of that, the dynamic is simply turned around. and what does this mean for the future? well, not much. we've been on this trajectory for over 200 years of decline and birth rates. i don't see a turning around any time soon unless we go back to an agrarian society and in a society it's very, as we say, traditional values where the man is the bread owner of the woman is in the house.

and she takes care of the kids in the home. it's interesting that you bring that because this is a perfect transition because pose corner virus, we saw major exodus from the organization. you saw people moving out of the cities . are we seeing a reverse that has been to happen because of something like a global pandemic? yeah, we saw the reverse, but they were typically reverse is to nearby rural areas. so, district of columbia is a great example, because if you go out, maybe, as far as richmond down into this in southern virginia may be the, the, the tidewater region. you can get here by train. same for new york city, people going up into the hudson valley perhaps on the long island it's easy to get to. but in 3 quarters of our county is most of which are rural populations are in decline. that's outpaced birds. so it is in a full reversal also, i think is people are coming back to the office and yes, they are despite what people want, they are getting pulled back into their office place. this is moving the needle back to people coming into the cities. you just have to look at housing prices and

major markets to know that there's demand to live in these places. okay, so let's tie this back into how we started the conversation to at the segment about the aging population. knowing all of this, did we find that that elderly population that they moved into the cities as well, or did they stay where they were at and how are those communities handling? it's a mixed bag. boomers are a very large population. our happened historically 76000000 at one time. now they're down to about $69000000.00 in total. there was a move of older adults boomers in particular back into cities. but the largest percentage of boomers are still living in the suburbs. and this is problem attic because a lot of time people want to stay in their home. the suburbs typically don't have the right infrastructure in place to take care of an aging population. they don't have the right transportation services. they don't have the right social services. all these things are missing from the equation in a city though, where you live in a 15 minute neighborhood. i live just north of here in logan circle and i can get

to 3 grocery stores within 3 blocks. these are a central services that neighborhoods need in order for people to live and age. well. okay, so now we look at these boomers as they're leaving these homes kind of in a suburb or suburbs to think that they're going into retirement homes. where, where are they going? everyone will enter most likely will enter nursing care. at some point. there isn't a preponderance of people going into care settings. if they don't have to, people tend to go into care settings when they're forced to, they have a fall or a major health of and perhaps they lose the spouse and become somewhat isolated and move 4 on to base that in some way. but the reality is, if you can stay at home, you want to stay at home. and most people want to do that. the good news is there are minor interventions that people can make in their own homes to make them level for longer periods of time. where you can actually build that runway for your independence for longer periods of time. and these are minor modifications and

actually look really nice. you could hide them in the design of the kitchen or bathroom, improving the lighting schemes, making sure basic things like the corners of carpets and rugs are taped down. so there's no trip potential there. um, but eventually we all have to deal with the reality or most of us have to deal with the reality that we need care. we will need care at some point at the end of our lives. and is this happening? we're talking about trans, but global trans, are you not only seeing this in western countries like the united states, u. k, what you're saying is in other countries, are they having following the same sort of line that the west, is there something that we can all actually agree on is happening? yeah, it's a pretty universal thing. but again, because aging and long ever, they are tied to industrialization, talking about modern economies. obviously, if you go into economies that are still developing primarily those in sub saharan africa, for example, or perhaps live in america, people are still living in multi generational housing. they're living with their

grandparents, which means they're better off. they're kind of going back to what you're encouraging people to do is to keep at home, believe it or not, it's happening here in the united states to all be very slowly and just underneath the surface from the, from about 1971 till today. there has been a trend to go back into multi generational living with in one house. it eases the care burden on all parts of the family. a grand parents can take care of grandkids, adult children can take care of their parents. it really gets us back to a more harmonious way of living, but also a more traditional way of living too. because prior to the 20th century, that's all everybody left, right. okay, so then you're talking about that, what is the future? do you feel about we're talking about blue or is leaving their hope a homes open? do you feel like this is going to have an impact on millennials? they might give them a better chance to own homes for the 1st time it does. it gives them a big chance. in fact, boomers hold about 40 percent of assets in real estate. they own about 40 percent of the real estate market in this country. when they start exiting the real estate

market, those homes will become available to more people that might have been tapped out of the marketplace. this is a good thing for millennials and so you didn't even better thing for gen z. the short term thing that's happening right now is something we call the great wealth transfer, the great wealth transfer as the move of assets from bloomers to their project to the children. these are typically late gen xers like myself and early millennials. and what that's doing is it's giving this extra influx of cash in the marketplace that wouldn't exist otherwise, think of it like a private sector stimulus, right? so all of a sudden these adult children that are millennials and boomers that got these gifts from their parents, are buying real estate, pushing up prices even further. so in the next, let's say, 10 to 20 years, we're going to see some of these stabilizing in the real estate market. perhaps not in major cities, but certainly in rural counties. and certainly are in smaller cities across the country to unless of course there's a really route,

transformative piece of technology that allows that actually to work from home 24 hours a day. thank you. bradley sherman. because after the break, we're going to actually continue this discussion discussion is it's fast. so look at whether it was some world governments or actually manipulating demographic trends for their own benefit, at the detriment of others staging the high acceptance. and i'm here to plan with you whatever you do. do not watch my new show. seriously. why watch something that's so different. whitelisted opinions that he won't get anywhere else. welcome to please or do you have the state department c i a weapons, bankers, multi 1000000000 dollar corporations. choose your fax for you. go ahead. change and whatever you do. don't want myself to stay main street because i'm probably going

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abuses in the history of humanity. this is the biggest act of deportation of people ever seen by mankind. welcome back. you know, we're going to continue our discussion about global demographic trends with our expert brad, the sherman, bradley. i want to go back this idea of immigration. do you feel that some of the policies of some countries are purposely driving out certain demographics into other regions? and now these groups are usually, like i said, the more most poor or less educated. you know, i have all the various roto agencies that we have. do you think, is she more of a watch dog on those receiving these emerick grants rather than the accountability for the countries that seem to be pushing them out? yeah, it, it, it's immigration is a really sticky,

weird issue that we all get kind of consume with because there are no good answers . obviously people are leading for a multitude of reasons on whether or not people actually get pushed out. i don't think there's really good data on that getting pushed out in the other places. we are starting to see obviously the 1st climate refugees on island nations that are starting to move. but the reality is that, that we live in a global world now on the question is whether or not we're able to take in these folks on your own countries and make them part of you know who we are in the future . it is the questions that are people not staying their own country, the ones that are leaving are usually the ones that are not necessarily prospected or taken care of on their own. society is not necessarily the case. i mean, we, we bring in a lot of really high level, high educated immigrants to this country. in fact, they're specialized programs, usually legally though, for the southern board along the lines that are doing this is not the non legal way of doing it. are the ones that i feel like are being pushed out because of government policies of their own kind. we definitely government policies and in the

govern. if the government policies are on a multitude of things like that they, they don't have good social welfare protection. for example, but they also might not have economic opportunity. government policy also might have factors caused by government policy, correct? government policy might also affect how um, in certain nations in line america or central america in particular are dealing with, with drug dealers. right? particular that the cartels and if people feel unsafe, they're coming here. so yeah, it does come back to government policy in, in a major way. because if you're living in a safe, prosper and you're not going to leave it, why would you leave? right? why would you leave? of course, you know, one of the sub notes here is that one of the micro trends that i'm looking at very closely right now is the emigration of americans to europe. it's a small number, right? and over to the okay, i've, i've, i've been reading where they need to see a lot of excess of americans to london. yes. but it's not just london, it's southern europe, it's germany. they liberalize their labor laws over there. so it's a bit easier for us to move. they have no gun violence and they have wonderful

social protection. so we're starting to see americans take europe up on this offer . and europe wants to have them because if they can get highly qualified, highly educated individuals in, they keep their societies flourishing. because people who are high income are always going to pay high taxes for do the maintenance. and i think that cause and from the american parent standpoint, the immigrants are coming in, especially southern border are the ones that don't have those economic opportunities. but the ones that are leaving the united states are the, are highly, are the ones that you would like to actually retain. there's an irony there. so, you know, for myself, there's always a country that's better than another, right? there's very rarely one that always sits at the top. there isn't one that sits at the top now period that's address. there's still a great value proposition here to put in the business parlance. there's still a great value proposition for pick immigrants in particular to come here. it's still seen as a land of opportunity for many well, well that's what we're talking about because in the world is the world war, ethnic racially diverse and prior civilizations have had with these terms. and why

does this seem to be causing? in some cases, more conflict then being celebrated i. there's a couple of different ways of looking at the probably the easiest one is through the lens of race and culture on americas. foundational culture was in slight people brought from africa and primarily european christian or jewish immigrants. and that's what made of america now the america is really become very diverse and their populations from latin america, from africa, from the subcontinent, from asia that have really come in, in recent years and change the makeup of this country. generations. he is the most of 1st generation we've ever had that's in america. that what about in china and even africa, you're not seeing that sort of diversity now. that is incurring and so are you seeing those demographic trends and a shift happening like what you're saying? and you have to take a look at china. china does not have large numbers of people going there. and people are interested in moving to china. and it's still on authoritarian government. it's still controlled by the state. it's or they don't allow it or they

don't allow it really just don't allow immigration, but it's also amount of cultural. and so i'm on a cultural without a dominant racial group at the top, the hon. that it's very hard, even for chinese minority groups that exist within the country, 80 yourself them to actually find a place within that society. it's not welcoming to foreigners, you're always an outside of the same is true in a place like japan. a place like korea is opening up a little bit more africa. not really there. they actually get some immigrants from china in africa now. but for the most part, their places in the world where people don't go, they're not interested in moving to. typically, people want to move to western highly industrialized social democratic countries. that's what they want, where the gold standard. and that's that. okay, so last question, i have to ask you, what is going to happen to these advanced nations? if people don't start having more kids, are they still going to be advanced and shouldn't be doing more to encourage them

necessarily. you know, there's 2 sides of the coin. i'm having more children would take some of the burden off the health care system, for example, would continue to generate the economy. but it also puts more people into the pots that are drawing down resources. and we know that we're living in a time where rece were resource a poor, and it's harder and harder each year to, to take care of the global population. we're taking more from the earth and we can get back. i think on the other side of the coin now, what can europe do? um, europe has to manage their transition very carefully. they need to increase order work or participation. they need to look at immigrants as a stop gap solution technology becomes very important in the coming years. they can protect what they have if they make the change. now, if not, and you probably remember this argument from rush, the during the, the soviet era, the guns are buttered. what we're gonna have to choose, guns are all people. some countries are not going to be able to pay for the defense

in the future. if they have to deal with the social welfare commitments hold other, showing that what ownership, bradley, thank you so much for doing is very insightful and everything. thank you so much. and you can find more about products work by checking out his latest book to cutting our demographic destiny the super age. now understanding and global demographic changes is crucial for policy makers, social planters, and government, all to anticipate and address challenges related to health care, social security, labor markets, and infrastructure. and these changes also have implications for economic development, cultural dynamics, and social structures at the global and national levels. accurate predictions of where these trends are going to help shape policies which have a negative or positive effect on the shifting demographics of origin. and is it rocket science or even magic before see what the future holds? have are those empower too often make decisions for short term knowing they will not have to deal with the long term ramifications. the, i'm sorry, now he's,

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