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    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Martin Wolf
      Can China overcome its demographic deficit?

      As things stand, a declining population is set to slow the growth of the economy

      James Ferguson illustration of five spectators in yellow jerseys standing and cheering on an otherwise empty sports stadium that has red seats - their configuration emulating the Chinese flag
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Japan
      Japan government pension acts on population strain

      World’s largest retirement fund turns to data science in hunt for higher returns

      The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) logo is displayed on a brochure
    • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Japan’s toddler superstar: the baby bringing hope to a ghost village

      In the small community of Ichinono, the first birth in more than two decades has focused minds on a demographic crisis

      Life-size dolls against a countryside setting
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Property sector
      Should I invest in UK student property?

      FT Money wants to hear from readers

      Students gather outside a university library
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Why are white Britons dying at higher rates than other ethnic groups?

      New mortality data could help create targeted policy to reduce the UK’s large and growing disease burden

      A doctor with a stethoscope round his neck talking to a patient
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      UK social care
      £8bn needed to keep pace with demand for social care in England over next decade

      Figure rises to £18bn for a complete overhaul of system, according to Health Foundation study

      Staff assist a man using a zimmer frame at a residential care home in the UK
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      Are we destined for a zero-sum future?

      A backdrop of slower economic growth may be shaping attitudes of tomorrow that cut across political divides

      A pie with a US dollar on its face is divided up and two people take slices
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      UK care homes
      How to pay for long-term old age care

      If you can, save early as costs are rising - by more than a fifth in the past five years

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Great expectations

      The secret to avoiding Japanification, apparently

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Robert Shrimsley
      Sunak’s Conservatives are betting against the future

      There has been a breakdown in the economic promise that previously swung voters to the right as they got older

      Illustration of a chart line which is mostly red with a short section of blue. Above the red line is a crawling baby, then a child, then an adult and an older adult. Above the blue line is a very old person and a grave
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      UK society
      Number of people aged 100 or over in England and Wales hits record high

      ONS analysis finds 11,288 female and 2,636 male centenarians on back of reduced mortality

      A grandmother celebrates her 100th birthday
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      Datawatch
      Battle of the ages: how America’s gerontocracy is a challenge for democracy

      US legislators are especially old, even in a world where older politicians dominate

      Montage with images of Nancy Pelosi, Joe biden and Mitch McConnell against a backdrop of red bar chart lines and a faded image of the Capitol building
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      Pilita Clark
      The plight of the hidden carers in your workforce

      Millions of staff secretly juggle busy jobs with demanding caring duties that need more recognition

      Illustration of a person pushing someone in a wheelchair while speaking into a headset and saying ‘Yes, yes, we really need to push this project forward’
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Scotland
      Scotland registers slowest population growth rate in UK

      Latest census data highlights country’s demographic challenges, with 23% rise in over-65s

      People walking on Edinburgh’s main thoroughfare, Princes Street
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Special ReportThriving Cities
      Youth can help reshape poor urban environments

      More effort is required, not least by policymakers, to involve young people in developing programmes they want and need

      Female student leading a protest
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Long-term care: counting the cost

      How are you shouldering the financial burden of old age?

      Staff assist an elderly woman in a care home
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Charlotte Ransom
      Financial ingredients for the ‘sandwich generation’

      People helping adult children and elderly parents should first check their own needs

    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      FT SeriesExtreme renting
      Extreme renting: Estonia start-up boom fuels EU’s biggest cost rises

      High levels of home ownership in the Baltic nation mean rents are volatile to market changes and fuelled by expat workers

      Montage of Euro sign against Tallinn skyline
    • Tuesday, 29 August, 2023
      FT SeriesExtreme renting
      Extreme renting: limits on rents leave Berlin’s new tenants vying for homes

      Housing costs have skyrocketed in a city once known as ‘hip and cheap’

      Montage of apartments and chart lines
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      FT SeriesExtreme renting
      Extreme renting: Santorini’s teachers forced to rough it in Airbnb haven

      Tourists flocking to Greek islands and Italian cities are pricing out public sector workers and students

      Montage of Santorini and chart lines
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Special ReportFT Wealth: September
      The transfer of wealth from boomers to ‘zennials’ will reshape the global economy

      Financier Ken Costa argues the millennials and Gen-Z generations are unsuited to managing capital because of their left-wing views

      Young teachers marching holding up placards and banners in favour of strike action
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Global spread of birth rate decline makes problem more not less urgent

      Demographic challenge grips UK but non-UK born migrants having children in the country has not moved the dial

      A lollipop lady assists with road crossing as children head to school in Glasgow
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      FT SeriesExtreme renting
      Extreme renting: how rising rates turned the screws on tenants across Europe

      Heated market in housing hotspots is compounded by increasing mortgage costs deterring buyers

      A montage of a photo of a residential building, a line graph and a euro symbol
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      Global Economy
      Old people are the worst

      For economic growth at least

    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      Gideon Rachman
      China hits the east Asian demographic wall

      Like Japan and South Korea, China has a shrinking population but it has fewer ways to manage the change

      Illustration of Chinese president Xi Jinping riding a big red horse with yellow stars on it which is wading though deep mud
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