Jeremy Warner: How pensioners are killing the world economy
In China, they call it the inverted three, two, one.
Historically, families have followed a pyramid structure of three children, two parents and one surviving grandparent. Yet thanks in part to the one-child policy, the pyramid has for many been turned upside down. In some Chinese cities, a typical family might today consist of three grandparents, two parents and one child.
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