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Decades of low fertility are causing Portugal’s working-age population to fall. Simultaneously, retirees are living longer and forming an ever-larger part of the population. These factors are causing an extraordinary decline in the number of working-age people available to support the expanding number of retirees. Explore the full analysis and implications for global investment.

Decades of low fertility are causing the working-age population of Greece to fall. Simultaneously, retirees are living longer and forming an ever-larger part of the population. These factors are causing an extraordinary decline in the number of working-age people available to support the expanding number of retirees. Explore the full analysis and implications for global investment.

Decades of low fertility are causing the working-age population of Greece to fall. Simultaneously, retirees are living longer and forming an ever-larger part of the population. These factors are causing an extraordinary decline in the number of working-age people available to support the expanding number of retirees. Explore the full analysis and implications for global investment.

Much of the developed world is experiencing rapidly falling fertility rates. Attempts to reverse this fall – which in most developed countries has dropped far below the replacement threshold - have been unsuccessful so far. Explore the full analysis and implications for global investment.

Fertility rates have been falling across the OECD for many decades. As a result, every member of the OECD is projected to see its working-age population decline between 2030 and 2050. Simultaneously, retirees are living longer and forming an ever-larger portion of OECD populations. These factors are causing a decline in the number of working-age people available to support the expanding number of retirees across the OECD. Explore the full analysis and implications for global investment.