The Population System

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Demographic pressure, in this synthesis, is rarely a shortage of people in the abstract. It is a failure of timing, matching and institutions. Income can arrive after it is useful, workers can exist outside the jobs that need them, homes can stand in the wrong places, and reform can begin after the cheaper options have expired.

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A01Synthesis, not a new forecastThe ten population studies are read as windows on one system. Their models are hypothetical, use South African rand and South-African or Gauteng-scale examples, and are not forecasts.moderate sensitivity

A02Household formation is the prequelHousehold formation changes housing demand, consumption, care, risk sharing and the capacity to save before any pension or demographic calculation begins.moderate sensitivity

Modelled results cited

R01Ten studies read as one systemRead together, the studies say demographic pressure is rarely a shortage of people in the abstract. It is a failure of timing, matching and institutions.modelled

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