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Demographics and population

  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    Isabel Berwick
    Don’t mess with the women of a certain age

    We are now a tribe, turbo-charged by friendship — and a lot of righteous anger

  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    What if the UK isn’t actually the sick man of Europe?

    Britain’s illness-related inactivity crisis looks increasingly like a mirage

    Montage image of a medical professional taking a blood pressure reading from a patient
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    EU births drop to new low as strains on younger generations mount

    Dearth of children expected to heap pressure on state finances

    A newborn baby is cradled by a mother's hands in a hospital.
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    Social Media
    TikTok layoff videos pose risks for posters and employers

    Gen Z workers posting redundancy videos are trending — but can harm their future prospects

    A woman filming a video of herself
  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    Personal Finance
    How the Bank of Mum and Dad reshaped the British economy

    Parental support has effects well beyond getting on the housing ladder

  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Special Report
    Diversity Leaders

    850 companies ranked; Cisco shines despite Big Tech reserve; Rolls-Royce outperforms counterparts on inclusion scale; Erste Bank rises above politics; Diageo takes measure of its market; Ireland notes ‘diversity disparity’; fund management gender lag

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  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    LexLuxury goods
    Luxury brands bank on their own American dream Premium content

    Increasing appeal in US could provide a new growth runway in the sector

    Pedestrians pass a Louis Vuitton store in Dublin, Ireland
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: November
    Gen Z fuels fast-growing second-hand watch market

    As sales of new timepieces decline, younger buyers priced out of more expensive assets are showing an appetite for value

    Close-up of a child peeking over a display of watches, with three luxury watches on thin stands in a well-lit case
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
    Could TikTok, apps and Gemma Collins boost women’s pensions?

    Scottish Widows study shows more than 2mn UK women will not be able to afford to retire

    Reality TV and social media star Gemma Collins is fronting the Pay Your Pension Some Attention campaign
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    News in-depthFrench politics
    Barnier touches nerve with plan to trim French pensions

    Prime minister’s money-saving proposal hits opposition, despite calls for more intergenerational fairness

    Michel Barnier waves outside the Élysée palace in Paris, France in October 2024
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    ExplainerGeneration Z
    Does Gen Z have it tougher than previous generations?

    Young Britons are finding it harder than ever before to achieve financial independence — here’s why

    Montage shows three Gen Z young people against a data backdrop
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    Chinese society
    China targets 2mn lifts to keep its ageing population upwardly mobile

    A campaign is under way to retrofit older apartments but authorities and residents are fighting over the bill

    Residents chat in a lift installed in an old residential building, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Meet ‘Generation Windfall’: coming to an estate agent near you

    Fears of tax rises at the Budget have sent the Bank of Mum and Dad into overdrive

  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Business InsightAnjli Raval
    Age matters when it comes to boards

    There is often bias towards candidates with established records, but companies should not be afraid to take a chance on youth

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  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Birth rate drops to record low in England and Wales

    Declining fertility risks adding pressure on the UK’s public finances and hampering economic growth, warn analysts

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  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    News in-depthJapanese politics & policy
    Japan’s elder election: senior voters set to dominate snap poll

    Demographics, surging prices and youth apathy in world’s oldest nation could weaken new PM Shigeru Ishiba

    two ladies of a certain age in front of election posters
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
    Peak population may be coming sooner than we think

    Birth rates keep coming in below the forecasts — the models may need an overhaul

    A pregnant woman holding her belly with a red downward-sloping line graph superimposed
  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    News in-depthUS presidential election 2024
    Could ‘feral 25-year-olds’ win the US election for Kamala Harris?

    Both campaigns are using TikTok to try to reach younger voters

    A montage of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, a close-up of someone holding a mobile phone with the TikTok app on the screen, and two TikTok posts in the background
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Recreational drugs
    Cocaine-related fatalities surge as England and Wales report record drug deaths

    Campaigners say falling prices and social acceptability have driven higher use

    A picture shows discarded drug paraphenallia in a small wooded area used by addicts
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    The sun is setting on traditional retirement

    Demographic changes force a rethink, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing

    Illustration of young and old workers as chess pieces on a chess board
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Portugal
    Portugal seeks to become low-tax haven for young people

    Centre-right government bets on 10 years of tax breaks to stop brain drain

    Pedestrians cross a street in front of a tram in Lisbon, Portugal
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    News in-depthUK employment
    Why are a rising number of young Britons out of work?

    A record 35% of people aged 18-24 were classed as ‘inactive’ this year, driven by a mental health crisis

    Montage shows an anonymous young person against a backdrop of FT data
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    OutlookAmy Kazmin
    Italy’s single women fight for the right to IVF

    Currently the government only permits heterosexual, married women to undergo treatment

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  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Immigration drives fastest UK population growth for half a century

    Official data highlights country’s demographic challenges

    Shoppers on Oxford Street, London
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    Special ReportFTfm: Pensions
    Japan’s biggest pension fund faces more pressure to deliver

    Changes to GPIF’s investment policies to take on more risk have been lauded — but the country’s system is under strain

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