NASA OSIRIS-REx mission is returning on September 24, 2023 with 250 grams of the Bennu asteroid. The samples were collected in 2020 but it has taken this long for the mission to return. China will attempt to collect the first samples from the far side of the moon next year with its Chang’e 6 mission. …
In 2022, Nextbigfuture noted that China’s economy had basically stalled out. China’s economy was extraordinary and outperformed relative to other countries for decades. It did this by catching up. China’s economy will be stalled for the 10-15 years as its population and working age population shrinks and ages. However, after the stall is the steep …
I have predicted the relative success of the Canadian economy by 2040-2050. This is NOT predicting an economic miracle for Canada but avoiding economic disaster. Japan, Germany, UK, France and Italy have all ALREADY hit an economic and demographic wall. They have ALREADY flat, aging and even declining populations. It is a prediction based upon …
Canada could become the third largest economy in the world by the 2040s. Canada has more than doubled its population growth rate to 2.7% to 3.0% per year in the last two years. This is adding 1.0 to 1.3 million people per year. Canada is mainly adding college educated people from India, Asia and Europe. …
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says Japan is on the verge of being unable to maintain its social functions. Japan had 1.8 million births per year in the 1970s, 1.2 million people were born each year in Japan in the mid-1990s and in 2022 there were 770,000 people born. 500 Japanese schools close in the …
The number of babies born in Japan last year also fell for the seventh consecutive year, dropping below 800,000 for the first time since records began in 1899 to 770,747, down 40,875 from the previous year, according to the data released by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. The number of deaths in Japan …
NHK, one of Japan’s main media companies, had a segment where Japan is worried about dropping from its ranking as the third place economy (nominal GDP). Japan sees its economy falling behind Germany. Germany has a population of 84 million people while Japan has 122 million. Japan’s per capita income has also cratered a rapidly …
In Japan, the Lost Generation refers to those who had the bad luck to graduate during the “employment ice age” of the 1990s and 2000s—after the collapse of the 1980s asset-price bubble. Japan’s large companies stopped giving lifetime employment. Most of the lost generation got one low-wage job after. The generation is now ranging in …
If people or kids do not exist, then they cannot contribute to a nations economy. These will be huge effects by 2050 and even larger by 2100 and beyond. All of the forecasts that China and India will have economies many times larger than the USA will NOT happen. The other part of the forecasts …
We do NOT know if the climate models are correct. There are predictions that worsening storms and drought will have economic losses that are 20-50 times worse than today by 2050. The older predictions of flooding or winters without snow have not happened. However, we know for certain that lowering birth rates will result in …
Total fertility rate is the average number of babies that a woman will have in a particular population. However, only half of those babies will be girls to become future mothers. Two people had the children but if they have only one child then only half of the couples have a girl who could be …