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Musings: Population Demographics, Energy Consumption

In our last Musings we discussed the aging population challenge China’s economy may be confronting and its possible ramifications on the country’s future energy consumption.  We have been doing more research on the question of population aging and energy consumption because the world is certainly aging, which is likely to impact energy needs globally, and especially in certain geographic regions.  The challenge is finding research that has even attempted to isolate the impact of age from other variables impacting consumption such as income, household size and location of residence.

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