A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age--when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those younger than eighteen--and explores what it could mean for our collective future. Societies all over the world are getting older; the result of the fact that we are living longer and having fewer children. At some point in the near future, much of the developed world will have at least twenty percent of their national populations over the age of sixty-five. Bradley Schurman calls this the Super Age.
