A question for the historians
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Question for the historians: We hear a lot today about how the low birth rate in many industrialized countries (U.S., Europe, parts of Asia) is leading to an "economic time bomb," when a small number of working-age people will need to support a large number of elderly people.
Are there any historical periods with an analogous situation? Perhaps after a plague or a war, when many young people were killed but not so much of the older generation? Anyone know what happened to those societies?
Question for the historians: We hear a lot today about how the low birth rate in many industrialized countries (U.S., Europe, parts of Asia) is leading to an "economic time bomb," when a small number of working-age people will need to support a large number of elderly people.
Are there any historical periods with an analogous situation? Perhaps after a plague or a war, when many young people were killed but not so much of the older generation? Anyone know what happened to those societies?
