sigma 2/2021 – Emerging markets
By Viola Wang,Jessie Guo, Mahesh H Puttaiah, Caroline De Souza Rodrigues Cabral and Xin Dai
Emerging markets worldwide are ageing fast. By 2050, these nations will be home to almost 80% of the world’s population aged 65 and above. Yet on average only about 30% of their workers are covered by any sort of formal retirement income scheme. As their old-age-dependency ratios (the population above 65 years old relative to the working-age population of 15 to 64 years old) rise above the global average, emerging markets are at risk of “growing old before they grow rich”.
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