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Video interview of Dr. George Leeson for JDC-ICCD Oxford


JDC - International Centre for Community Development at Oxford University has released a video interview with Dr. George Leeson on the socio-demographic impact of ageing populations.

In this interview, Dr Leeson describes how a society with a disproportionate amount of elderly individuals will look like and presented the challenges that societies will have to face in a world with a drastic decline of both mortality and fertility.

“We are moving into a world that is increasingly populated by older people,” affirmed Dr Leeson, and added, “the 21st century could be well the last century of youth.”

What will be the consequences for the job market, public policy and the retirement system? Dr Leeson reminded that, “there’s no good or bad demography, as such. It’s the infrastructures within our societies which make a demography bad.”

> Video Interview 'The Challenge of Ageing Societies'

> JDC Article and Interview Transcript