demographic tax

English

Etymology

In analogy to demographic dividend.

Noun

demographic tax (plural demographic taxes)

  1. The reversal of the demographic dividend that occurs when a society's large workforce enters retirement en masse while population growth has stalled or declined.
    Synonym: demographic burden
    • 2022, Ognjen Š. Miljanić, Joseph A. Pratt, Introduction to Energy and Sustainability, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 506:
      While the policy stemmed the population growth during the almost four decades it was in place, it also dampened China's demographic dividend and is now increasing its demographic tax. A young person in China may now need to support their children and two aging parents alone as they have no siblings to share the duties and costs.
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