▲ 86 ▼ More than 100,000 people in Japan are now aged 100 or older (www.bbc.com) submitted 2 weeks ago by DamnianWayne@lemmy.world to c/world@quokk.au 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] en1gma@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children) How they are doing that? permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] StillAlive@piefed.world 20 points 2 weeks ago* Aging Edit: without dying permalink fedilink source parent [–] Hydrii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 child) I was gonna say pension fraud but the article mentioned that so maybe this count is accurate. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago It seems like the article was just raising that point, not indicating that this country had fixed the problem. 88% women over 100 seems a little suspicious. In the US the ratio of men is almost double that, and somewhere in between US and Japan for the EU, which might be an innocent series of convergent factors, or it might be that there is a particularly invisible demographic being taken advantage of, and there are another 20,000-30,000 dead bodies being hidden for their pensions. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 20 points 2 weeks ago* Aging Edit: without dying permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hydrii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 child) I was gonna say pension fraud but the article mentioned that so maybe this count is accurate. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago It seems like the article was just raising that point, not indicating that this country had fixed the problem. 88% women over 100 seems a little suspicious. In the US the ratio of men is almost double that, and somewhere in between US and Japan for the EU, which might be an innocent series of convergent factors, or it might be that there is a particularly invisible demographic being taken advantage of, and there are another 20,000-30,000 dead bodies being hidden for their pensions. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago It seems like the article was just raising that point, not indicating that this country had fixed the problem. 88% women over 100 seems a little suspicious. In the US the ratio of men is almost double that, and somewhere in between US and Japan for the EU, which might be an innocent series of convergent factors, or it might be that there is a particularly invisible demographic being taken advantage of, and there are another 20,000-30,000 dead bodies being hidden for their pensions. permalink fedilink source parent