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Nowadays, most people worry about over-population and living in crowded cities. However, it is predicted that we will have the opposite problem by the year 2030 when one third of the population will be aged 65 or over and birth rates are predicted to decline. What effect will this have on our society? By 2030 the percentage of the population aged 65 or older will have risen significantly, to more
than 30%. This means that fewer people will be working, and therefore fewer people will be paying
income tax. In the future it may be necessary for governments to increase the official retirement
age to ...