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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (32909)	2/18/2009 12:40:29 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Japan and Russia are facing similar demographic situations. Russia's not as old but they both have fertility rates well below the replacement rate. indexmundi.com indexmundi.com Japan is older and has an even lower number of births, OTOH it has better government, more wealth, better infrastructure, more overseas assets to call on etc. In a sense its becoming a "retired country", living off its accumulated assets from its "working years". Russia's situation is likely to be much more chaotic, because of the government and history it has, and its huge size and many borders, to go with its declining population. Imagine for example Chinese people demographically taking over the border regions, and eventually over the long run resisting control from Moscow.