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Two young supporters of France's rugby team wave french flags before the start of the Rugby World ... / Credits: Reuters

Today's population trends cast long shadows into the future. How will the era of 7 billion affect ... / Credits: Reuters

Population 2011: 11.2 million
Population 2025: 18.9 million
Population growth: 68 ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography: Video Why are the French having so many children? more
Demography: Interview Future population prospects more
Demography The world's fastest growing megacities more

A mother and her two-year-old share a kiss. / Credits: Reuters

Demography: Video Women know best Women know best when it comes to child bearing. So they should be asked when it ... more

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Michaela Hansen's organization found an Au Pair position for former stewardess Embjörg Elster in ... / Credits: Michaela Hansen

Demography Granny Au Pair: Around the world at 60 years Granny Au Pair sends older women to help families around the world – an ... more

30-year-old Ken Kanno, team leader (left), and Tadashi Oka (70), 'thinker' and manufacturing ... / Credits: Geoff Johnson

Demography Where age is a resource not a handicap A Japanese company renowned for innovation is proving that older workers are an ... more

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A young performer smiles in a uniform resembling that of a former PLA soldier after a performance ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Peak labor - China grows old before growing rich? China’s workforce is shrinking. The one-child policy is often blamed but there ... more

Demography Thomas Malthus and the population time bomb None of the troubling predictions about overpopulation and global starvation ... more

World of 7 Billion / Credits: Allianz

Demography World of 7 Billion Can you guess what the 7 billionth person's life will be like? Check out this ... more

What's missing in this picture is the generation that has to take care of both the young and old. ... / Credits: Reuters

Muslim boys run home from a "madrasa" on the outskirts of Jammu, India. Countries with young ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography: Interview Our youthful societies In Part 2 of our interview with UN demographer Ralph Hakkert, we discuss why ... more

Living longer lifes, more people shun the idea of retirement and start a second career in their ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Aging societies and a shrinking workforce Aging societies face shrinking workforces. Enabling people to work longer can ... more

Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (in yellow) watches traditional games while sitting ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Social progress and the economics of happiness Bhutan rates Gross National Happiness over GDP. Economic growth doesn't always ... more

People standing on a crowded train leaving Dhaka airport rail station / Credits: Reuters

Demography World population growth: Are we too many? By 2050 the world’s population will have grown by another 2.5 billion, Can a ... more

The Berlin Demography Forum is taking on the challenge of demographic change. The very first ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Where are the parents of our future children? In a time of demographic change rising life expectancy and sinking birth rates ... more

Aqua gymnastics for seniors.

Senior health care services

Senior consulting class

Senior citizen working in a call-center.

A senior citizen practices reading with a child.

Senoirs practice to use tablet PCs.

Demography Lifelong learning Enabling seniors to work during retirement can fill gaps in a shrinking workforce. Here ... more

Italy's Member of the European Parliament Licia Ronzulli takes part with her baby in a voting ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography: Interview Women in work boosts birth rates Governments should encourage more women into work to improve birth rates, ... more

Korean artist Eun Sook Lee's illuminated installation, "Vanished Berlin Wall," on display in Berlin ... / Credits: Reuters

Allianz Knowledge on demography: This 2003 photo of Wittenberge shows an all-to-familiar scene in the small towns of eastern Germany—the signs of exodus: boarded-up and crumbling buildings, and empty streets.

Allianz Knowledge on demography: Projected onto the dismantled former East German parliament building in Berlin are the words "Clobber it, before it clobbers you."

Allianz Knowledge on demography: Wolves were nearly entirely killed off in Germany by mass exterminations during the early 20th century, but they are slowly making a comeback

Allianz Knowledge on demography: The Roth family with their son, Danny, the first baby born in Hamburg, Germany in 2007

Allianz Knowldege on demography: German chancellor Angela Merkel pictured here with German students.

Allianz Knowledge on demography: Pensioners look out onto Lake Chiemsee in southeastern Germany.

German auto workers demonstrate near Frankfurt, Allianz Knowledge on demography: Germany in January 2007 against the governments plans to gradually increase retirement age from 65 to 67.

Allianz Knowledge on demography: Turkish and German fans mingled in good spirits in Berlin during the Euro 2008 semifinal match between the two national teams.

Demography How demographic change transforms Germany Empty cradles and empty towns. Learn about the challenges of demographic change in ... more

A young Muslim girl wearing a headband that reads "fraternity" as she protests on a Paris boulevard ... / Credits: Reuters

Birth Rates in France

Longevity in France

Commuters wait for a train at a metro station in Paris in November 2007.

French Health System

A young Muslim girl wearing a headband that reads "fraternity" as she protests on a Paris boulevard against a ban on religious symbols in French state schools.

Firemen extinguish a burning car torched during clashes in a suburb of Strasbourg in November 2005.

Voting rights for immigrants in France

Demography How demographic change transforms France France stands out as the EU country with the second highest fertility. Find out how birth ... more

A farmer plants peanuts on a field at an organic farm cooperative. The strength of this model: ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography 2012 is International Year of Cooperatives The UN declared 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives to highlight their ... more

Aidha's wall of fame. For six years the organization has provided women with business schooling and ... / Credits: Frank Stern

Demography Business school for domestic workers Allianz is a supporting partner of International Women’s Day on March 8 and has ... more

Jobless Greeks wait in line outside an unemployment bureau in Athens. Greece's jobless rate hit ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Growing unemployment stirs social unrest In the wake of the financial crisis came a global jobs recession, and experts ... more

Migrant workers rest inside their one room dwelling in a residential area in Mumbai, October 3, ... / Credits: Reuters

Men daubed in colours celebrate "Lathmar Holi", also known as the Festival of Colours, at Barsana in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

A baby is spoon-fed on a street in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta.

Elderly tribal man takes part in a protest in Mumbai.

Men sitting in a group watch women dance during the "Dussehra" festival in the remote village of Siyani.

Indian children playing.

Healthcare employees work in their research and development (R&D) facility in Bangalore.

An Indian Hindu holy man speaks on his mobile telephone.

Migrant workers watch movie on a mobile phone in their one room dwelling.

Rubina Ali ( R ), who acted as young Latika in the oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire", sits with her family amid the ruins of the Gharib Nagar slum in Mumbai.

A school boy uses a laptop provided under the "One Laptop Per Child' project by a non-governmental organisation.

A worker stands on top of a tower at the construction site of the Bandra-Worli sea link in Mumbai.

A girl carries a pitcher after filling it with drinking water.

Demography How demographic change transforms India Despite falling fertility and reduced growth rates India is on its way to becoming the ... more

Demography German demographic change: Risk or opportunity? How is Germany dealing with demographic change? See how the Allianz Campus ... more

A five-country comparison of the average number of children per woman. / Credits: Allianz

Demography Fertility rates: Past, present and future A five-country comparison of the average number of children per woman. more

Nigerian pupils work on computers at the LEA primary school in Abuja. The school is a pilot site ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Human capital - Celebrating the educated century An optimist about this century, Wolfgang Lutz sees hope in the population ... more

The elderly outnumber the young. German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses with a one-year old girl. / Credits: Reuters

Demography: Interview Germany's unique demographic challenges Reiner Klingholz, director of the Berlin Institute for Population and ... more

A homeless man sits outside the entrance to Green Park Tube Station as shoppers meet on Christmas ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography: TEDGlobal 2011 What the growing wealth gap means for our future Growing inequality makes countries worse, Richard Wilkinson argued at the ... more

Surviving on scraps: A boy eats at the Dandora Municipal Dumping Site in Kenya's capital Nairobi / Credits: Reuters

Demography Population growth and food supply Siwa Msangi of the International Food Policy Research Institute explains how ... more

Would-be immigrant babies on the deck of an Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) Search and Rescue boat. In ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography How female empowerment affects population growth Populations wax and wane for various reasons, but mothers determine whether ... more

A Kenyan woman prepares ribbons ahead of World AIDS Day in Nairobi. Kenya has over a million people ...

Demography AIDS impacts Africa's population AIDS has hit southern Africa harder than anywhere. How will this epidemic ... more

Huang Xuehua, 24, works inside a Foxconn factory in Longhua township in Guangdong province in 2010. ... / Credits: Reuters

Demography Robots replacing China's workers Are Chinese workers too expensive? The company that makes your Apple, Sony and ... more