Not too conversational here, I hope for a change. Anyway, I study demograhic changes and the United States and Western Europe is aging. One cliam is that Italy with a low birth average age is going to be 57 in 2025. So, that means that regular swimming for those in age group or elite swimming will have less competitors,while master swimming will have more because more people will be in many countries average ages in the 40's to 50's.What do you think?.
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I don't think we need to worry about a shortage of children or teenagers of prime swimming age.
The average age of the population is going up (mostly because people are living longer, but also because the "baby boom" generation was so much larger than the ones immediately before and after), but the total population is still increasing. This means that younger people are a smaller percentage of the total population, not that there are fewer young people.
In fact, I recently read in an article about college admissions that "Generation Y" is the largest group of teenagers ever and the next generation ("Z"?), who are now preteens, will be even bigger. The "aging population" may affect social security, pensions and health care but it shouldn't affect swimming.
I don't think we need to worry about a shortage of children or teenagers of prime swimming age.
The average age of the population is going up (mostly because people are living longer, but also because the "baby boom" generation was so much larger than the ones immediately before and after), but the total population is still increasing. This means that younger people are a smaller percentage of the total population, not that there are fewer young people.
In fact, I recently read in an article about college admissions that "Generation Y" is the largest group of teenagers ever and the next generation ("Z"?), who are now preteens, will be even bigger. The "aging population" may affect social security, pensions and health care but it shouldn't affect swimming.
