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s+b Trend Watch: The Aging Workforce Is Pressuring Cities
Aging populations and slowing birthrates are presenting challenges to cities around the world, and those problems are set to intensify, a new study of 30 major world cities shows. “Graying cities” pose a conflict between the shrinking coffers caused by fewer working-age people (i.e., taxpayers) and ever-higher pension draws and healthcare costs.
* Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo
Source: PwC, “Cities of Opportunity 7,” Sept. 2016
