By 2050, there may be only four working-age people for every person over 65 worldwide.
The state has Germany's lowest growth and highest unemployment, with one in four working-age people out of a job.
Use the other half to make a down payment on covering working-age people with no health insurance.
That will greatly increase the pressure on employers to get more working-age people into the work force.
Yet the population of working-age people grew by only two million.
In addition, the poverty rate rose last year for working-age people, those ages 18 to 64.
Currently, 63.1 million working-age people are outside the labor force.
The attractive power of this vibrant economic region for working-age people suggests its success will be long term.
The death rate among working-age people in Russia today is higher than it was 100 years ago.
At the same time, the poverty rate for working-age people, those ages 18 to 64, rose last year.