alt Hacker News> What's going to replace it? Rapidly aging China?
Using the age profile of a country with over a billion people to dismiss its geopolitical power has no credibility.
More appropriate to point out their (our) lack of domestic chip production and outsourcing of critical technologies.
>Using the age profile of a country with over a billion people to dismiss its geopolitical power has no credibility.
The first two charts are for GDP, which correlates pretty well with geopolitical power. Moreover if we're going by population, wouldn't that imply India, and then later Africa are going to be superpowers?