In the future it is expected that there will be a higher proportion of old people than the younger people in many countries. Is this a positive or negative development?

It is estimated that in time to come many countries will have proportionately higher number senior citizens than adults and young people combined. In my opinion,

this

is a negative development as

higher proportion

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a higher proportion

of senior citizens would put enormous pressure on health care facilities and

tax

revenues for

such

nations would

considerably fall

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fall considerably

. One of the

downside

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downsides

of

this

trend is that these nations would require higher number of medical centres to tackle the needs of these people. People above the age of 60 require periodic medical attention owing to the fact that at

this

age their immune system becomes weak, and they are more prone to illnesses.

This

means that

government

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the government

of these national would need to set up additional facilities to meet the need of these people.

For example

, it is estimated that Japan government to double the number of health care facilities to

meets

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meet

such

populations need by 2020. Another major drawback of

this

shift is that

this

would result in lesser

tax

revenues for the authorities. As more and more people will turn senior

citizen they

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citizen, they

will retire from their jobs and professions and start living on pension.

This

means that lesser percent of

population

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the population

would be working;

as a result

of

this

phenomenon income

tax

collection would decrease considerably.

For example

, income

tax

collection in

UK

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the UK

has decreased by 3 percent in

last decade

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the last decade

as working population has decreased due to more retirements. To recapitulate, higher percentage of

aged

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aging

people will not only put

strain

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the strain

a strain

of medical facilities of a nation as they require regular

care but

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care, but

also

result in decreased

tax

revenue collection because of lesser working population which is not a positive development.