19 Population Aging and the Future of Health Policy Comprehension Questions Indicate whether the statement is true or false,and justify your answer.Be sure to state any additional assumptions you may need. 1.Population growth in the developed world is contributing to population ag- ing. FALSE.In order for a population to exactly maintain its size fro n genera tion to generation,each woman must give birth to about 2.1 children over her lifetime.This special fertility rate is often called the population replace- ment fertility rate.In the last few decades,the total fertility rate in the devel- oped world has fallen below that level.Higher fertility rates in developing countries are actually slowing the aging of the world population 2.Japan's population is not aging along with the rest of the developed world. FALSE.Japan is the one of the starkes st e xamples of a population rapidly going gray.Indeed,the proportion of elderly in the Japanese population will increase at a far faster rate than in any other industrialized nation.Projec- tions indicate that 27.3 percent of the Japanese population will be over 65 by 2025,the one of the highest rates in the developed world. 3.In a world of population decline,many national health systems are not sol- vent because they were predicated on the assumption of population growth. 1 19 Population Aging and the Future of Health Policy Comprehension Questions Indicate whether the statement is true or false, and justify your answer. Be sure to state any additional assumptions you may need. 1. Population growth in the developed world is contributing to population ag￾ing. FALSE. In order for a population to exactly maintain its size from genera￾tion to generation, each woman must give birth to about 2.1 children over her lifetime. This special fertility rate is often called the population replace￾ment fertility rate. In the last few decades, the total fertility rate in the devel￾oped world has fallen below that level. Higher fertility rates in developing countries are actually slowing the aging of the world population. 2. Japan’s population is not aging along with the rest of the developed world. FALSE. Japan is the one of the starkest examples of a population rapidly going gray. Indeed, the proportion of elderly in the Japanese population will increase at a far faster rate than in any other industrialized nation. Projec￾tions indicate that 27.3 percent of the Japanese population will be over 65 by 2025, the one of the highest rates in the developed world. 3. In a world of population decline, many national health systems are not sol￾vent because they were predicated on the assumption of population growth. 1