After the identification of several aging patterns (see blog articles on Japan, Sweden, Canada, the United States and France), in this post, we first present a synthetic picture of these aging patterns. We then move one step further to compare across countries the resources generated by economic activities to cover the "dependent" population in society. … Continue reading Facing aging – how employment plays a critical role
In February 2018, INSEE (the French statistical agency) published a remarkable analysis of life expectancy in France in relation to a number of characteristics of the population, such as standard of living, gender, education level and region. Life expectancy in France is one of the highest in the world, so it was enough for me … Continue reading Aging in France: Special challenge of a population of working age that does not grow anymore
I was so much intrigued by Paul Krugman's tweet that I thought I would dig a bit deeper. Knowing that life expectancy differs significantly between men and women, I wanted to see how the picture would look like if one looks at the same difference to the OECD average, but by gender. And I must say I … Continue reading What has changed in the lives (and pattern of death) of American women and men?
In summary In two earlier posts, I proposed a metric to measure the "academic gap" – the distance between students performing the lowest and the recognized international benchmark for "average or standard performance". I measured the evolution of the academic gap between 2006 and 2012. In this post, I'm updating the profiles of the countries … Continue reading Academic gap: Any progress since 2012?
