Working-age Population

Categories: Econ, Metrics

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The working age population is used as an economic indicator. The higher the proportion of the working age population that’s employed, the better. As robots and machines start taking over both blue collar and white collar industries, from driving cars to writing music, the proportion of the working age population that’s employed will likely go down.

TBD on what people, and governments, will do when this becomes an issue.

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