The world has a problem. Fertility rates are falling almost everywhere, which helps to drive one of our pressing policy challenges: worsening care-dependency ratios or, essentially, the number of people in the working age population available to support, one way or another, those outside it. (I say “one way or another” because a working age adult taking time out to look after young children or ageing relatives is making a contribution, just as much as if they paid someone else to do it for them.)
世界有个问题。几乎所有地方的生育率都在下降，这是造成我们面临一个紧迫政策挑战的原因之一。这个挑战就是：抚养比持续恶化，也就是说，能够以某种方式支持非劳动年龄人口的劳动年龄人口持续萎缩。（我说“某种方式”，是因为处于劳动年龄的成年人花时间照顾未成年人或年迈亲属，与他们花钱请别人代替他们照顾一样，都是在做出贡献。）
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