The study also announced significant declines in the working-age populations of China and India, the world’s two most populous countries, portending a weakening in their global economic power.
If study’s projections become reality, this is expected to have huge ramifications for the US, whose economy is expected to trail China’s in size in just 15 years.
This means as China’s working-age population declines in the second half of the century, the US may reclaim the economic top spot by 2098.
This is on the proviso immigration continues to replenish the American workforce.
source: express.co.uk