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*Health: Infant mortality rate (December 2006)--5.1/1,000. Life expectancy (December 2006)--males 77.9 yrs., females 81.9 yrs.
*Health: Infant mortality rate (December 2006)--5.1/1,000. Life expectancy (December 2006)--males 77.9 yrs., females 81.9 yrs.
*Work force: 75.2% of 15-64 year olds or 2.057 million. Services and government—59%; manufacturing and construction—32%; agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and mining—8.9%.
*Work force: 75.2% of 15-64 year olds or 2.057 million. Services and government—59%; manufacturing and construction—32%; agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and mining—8.9%.
=== New Zealand, its growing problem of hyper-aging areas ===
''See also:'' [[Desecularization and aging populations]] and [[Global atheism and aging populations]] and [[Atheism and fertility rates]]
[[File:New Zealand road sign WU11 (Elderly).png|thumbnail|250px|left|New Zealand road sign indicating the elderly people are in the area.
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New Zealand’s towns and cities are rapidly becoming ‘hyper-aged’.<ref>[https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/24-11-2022/welcome-to-the-hyper-ageing-nation-that-is-new-zealand ''Welcome to the hyper-ageing nation that is New Zealand''] by Charlie Mitchell, November 24, 2022, The Spinoff (origininally appeared in Stuff.NZ.CO)</ref>]]
MacauBusiness.com notes: "The [[World Health Organization]] defines a country as having an “ageing society” when the proportion of people aged 65 or more is between 7 and 14 per cent of the total population; as having an “aged society” if this proportion is between 15 and 20 per cent; and as having a “super-” or “hyper-aged society” when this proportion is 21 per cent or higher."<ref>[https://www.macaubusiness.com/special-report-2031-the-hyper-aging-society-scenario/ Special Report – 2031: The hyper-aging society scenario], MacauBusiness.com, 2021</ref>
The 2022 the journal article ''A “death-laden society”: The next stage of a hyper-aged Japan and health challenges ahead'' published in the ''Aging and Health Research'' indicated about aging "death laden" societies: "A death-laden society is when the whole society, including younger people, are overwhelmed with the burdens of the ballooning deaths of those in advanced age at a scale unparalleled in history."<ref>[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667032122000567#:~:text=Preceding%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20world%2C%20in%202007%20Japan%20became,or%20older2%20%5B1%5D. ''A “death-laden society”: The next stage of a hyper-aged Japan and health challenges ahead''] by Masa Higo, ''Aging and Health Research''
Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahr.2022.100110</ref>
On November 24, 2022, the article ''Welcome to the hyper-ageing nation that is New Zealand'' indicated:
{{Cquote|New Zealand’s towns and cities are rapidly becoming ‘hyper-aged’, which will have far-reaching consequences for society and the economy. Population projections show it won’t affect all areas equally, and those most impacted will have difficult decisions to make...
Hyper-aged is an unusual term – and might even sound derogatory – but it’s a technical description for any population where the proportion of people aged-65+ is more than 20%.
In most cases, structural ageing cannot be reversed. Once natural decrease sets in, the only way to increase the population is through migration – either national or international.
[https://www.waikato.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/676188/The-unavoidable-nature-of-population-ageing.pdf Research suggests] the level of migration required to balance natural decline is unrealistic, and that “even extremely high migration levels would have only minimal impact” on the proportion of the 65+ population.
Another problem is that migrants themselves get older, which adds to structural ageing. Maintaining a balance would require an exponential increase in migrant numbers over time. Councils can try to encourage residents of other areas to relocate, but many communities will be in the same position – they’ll be competing with each other for a dwindling proportion of younger people.<ref>[https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/24-11-2022/welcome-to-the-hyper-ageing-nation-that-is-new-zealand ''Welcome to the hyper-ageing nation that is New Zealand''] by Charlie Mitchell, November 24, 2022, The Spinoff (origininally appeared in Stuff.NZ.CO)</ref>}}
Nonreligious/irreligious populations/[[nones]] have subreplacement levels of births which leads to aging populations (See: [[Atheism and fertility rates]] and [[Global atheism and aging populations]]). Caspar Melville wrote in ''The New [[Secular humanism|Humanist]]'': "Firstly [[Secular left|secular liberalism]] is individualistic, and therefore it goes hand in hand with delayed child bearing and lower fertility rates.<ref>[https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/2267/battle-of-the-babies Battle of the Babies] by Caspar Melville, The New Humanist</ref>
As far as the potential economic effects of hyper-aging areas of New Zealand, ''Wired'' magazine's article on hyper-aging areas indicates:
{{Cquote|There are an estimated eight million ghost houses in Japan. With such plentiful supply we might expect a slump, in which prices tumble, but something new and extreme happens: in a vanishing village there is no price, however low, at which people will buy. The market is not depressed, but frozen. This chill goes further than economics: when a town is disappearing, local politics becomes pointless: across Japan, one-fifth of seats in the 2015 local elections went uncontested.
The solution to these problems will need to be extreme: bulldozing unwanted properties, rewilding deserted areas, and finding new ways to engage rural voters and politicians. Ageing is itself a pandemic, one that we will need to begin tackling as soon as Covid-19 is under control.<ref>[https://www.wired.co.uk/article/future-economy-richard-davies The next economic shock will be hyper-aged societies], Wired magazine, 2020</ref>}}
==History==
==History==