“I wonder if anyone else has noticed,” wrote a reader in response to our incredible animated (borrowed) chart that depicted a Chinese demographic crisis “that along about 2015 China will have one very large population cohort at about age 45 -- the peak of industrial and commercial productivity -- and another one at age 20-25, ideal military age.
“The second peak is very heavily biased toward males, many of whom will never find a mate, due to the abortion of so many girls during the most virulent 'one-child' years. This would seem to be an extraordinarily dangerous demographic configuration.”
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