With a market cap of $1.7 trillion, Amazon is currently the most valuable retailer in the world. Despite varying levels of sales, each business unit brings unique value to Amazon. Conversely, the last time the 60+ group made up the same proportion in the German economy was in 1997. Your old pay doesn’t matter now. Here are what the Gerontological Society of America says are the “realities” of an aging society: I'm the Senior Web Editor of the Money & Security and Work & Purpose channels for Next Avenue, a new site for people 50+ from PBS. The world is aging rather rapidly. The company is expected to account for 4.6% of total U.S. retail sales by the end of 2020—but the tech giant is more than just a one-trick pony. In order to adapt to their increasingly aging populations, many countries have raised the retirement age, reduced pension benefits, and have started spending more on elderly care. “Mature workers tend to be a bit more loyal and punctual,” he told Channel News Asia. Amazon has evolved into more than just an online store. However, it’s also pretty extreme in comparison to other developed countries. Here is this negative growth projection shown, using a more conventional graph: Based on these United Nations projections, the German population is likely to decline by over 10 million people as we move towards the end of the 21st century. When it comes to top-ranking keywords, the electronics category appears to be the most important to Americans. So far, 160 employers have signed on. Preface. Japan is home to the oldest citizenry in the world, with 27% of its population being 65 years of age or older. However, the specific electronics they’re searching for (such as iPhones and Nintendo Switches), helps to provide some context around the products people are interested in, as well as the particular brands that are currently on everyone’s radar. Over half the U.S. top product searches fall under electronics, with the home category in second place. “People have to work longer because we’re living longer. The GSA report stopped short of making policy recommendations for the U.S. government or for employers. France managed to research and develop its own nuclear weapon in 1960. In Singapore, employers must generally offer re-employment contracts to eligible employees at age 62 and the contracts must be renewable every year until 67. “Your prior job is finished, whether you were the CEO or an hourly worker. Interestingly, three different Apple products appear in the top 10 global searches—Airpods, iPad, and iPhone. “We’re fighting some headwinds,” says Cappelli. It is predicted that nearly a third of the Japanese people (32.2%) will be senior citizens by 2030. Most interestingly, and in line with these figures, the younger population of people aged between 0 and 14 has not exhibited growth since 1999, and remained at a mere 14% until recently. We take at look at those countries which are particularly well-known for their rapidly rising numbers of aging citizens. The number of employed people age 65 and older in Japan recently hit a record 8.07 million. This has proven to be particularly important in 2020, given the economic devastation caused by the global pandemic. Today’s chart uses data from Ahrefs to showcase Amazon’s top 100 U.S. product searches. Join the 200,000+ subscribers who receive our daily email, Here’s What Happens Every Minute on the Internet in 2020, Visualizing the Social Media Universe in 2020, Ranked: The Most Popular Websites Since 1993, 29 Psychological Tricks To Make You Buy More, 3D Mapping The Largest Population Density Centers, Visualized: How Much Revenue Automakers Generate Every Second. Follow me on Twitter @richeis315, © 2020 Forbes Media LLC. Notice that by 2020, the shape starts to represent the negative population growth pattern that we showcased in a previous post. Portugal is next on this list, as 22% of its population is over 65 years of age. Our businesses and policymakers, it turns out, might do well to follow the lead of super-aged Japan and Germany and soon-to-be super-aged Singapore, based on my reading of the report from GSA and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Out of the top 100 product searches on Amazon, over half are for electronics. The test, known as, Gerboise Bleue, was the result of mostly French research. For a closer look at this trend, here’s an animated and interactive chart of Germany’s population pyramid. Use the “lock” button to save an imprint of particular year, and then use the play button to animate future years. Their statistics indicate that 21%, 21%, 21%, 20%, 20%, and 19% of their respective populations are 65 years of age or older. According to the European Central Bank, the most recent forecast for the eurozone pegs growth at 2.3% for the year ahead, a significant upgrade from the central bank’s previous estimate of 1.8%. The world is aging rather rapidly. I'm proud to say that I began investing in a 401(k) the minute I was eligible and started stashing money away for college as soon as my two sons were born. Nintendo Switch is the most searched product keyword, with approximately one million monthly searches. At the present moment, more than one in four people in the country are over the age of 65, whereas the country’s population aged between 15 and 64 fell by 4% between 2000 and 2010. Without this test, you are not allowed to board the aircraft. There are quite a few others countries that have high percentages of their citizens aged 65 years and over as well. Next on this list is Italy, with 23% of its population being 65 years of age or older. It did say, however, that Congress should look at the tax law to incentivize older workers to remain employed and that employers should implement “aging-friendly policies.”, The cloud hanging over all this here, of course, is age discrimination by employers. So German is technically older than English, but by an amount of time that most linguists would consider insignificant. “The idea in all these places is to get employers to think about the way to deal with human capital needs,” Cappelli says. Said Singapore’s Second Minister for Manpower, Josephine Teo: “The new standard will support older Singaporeans to work as long as they are willing and able to, in jobs that are safer and smarter in a work environment where they feel valued and where their needs are addressed.”. The study about what the GSA calls “this longevity era” was produced by a workgroup chaired by Peter Cappelli, director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Based on the top 100 list, both globally and in the U.S., it’s clear that when searching on Amazon, a majority of consumers are looking for electronics. American employers “haven’t done much of anything to reach out to older workers, let alone accommodate their interests and priorities,” Cappelli told me. Part of the reason why Portugal has a high rate of elderly citizens is because many pensioners from colder countries within the EU may choose to retire in the sunny country. 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The term means that more than one in five people in a country is 65 or older. “I don’t know that we’re making a ton of progress.”, He’s right. There is no way to measure an “oldest” language because all languages[*] are the same age, at least as far as we know. So Singapore’s leaders have developed a 70-item initiative to make the country what they call "a nation for all ages.". This visualization provides an overview of the different parts that make up Amazon, showing each business unit’s net sales from June 2019 to 2020. Some of these are Germany, Finland, Bulgaria, Sweden, Latvia and Malta. The home category is more popular in the U.S. than across the globe, with 22 in the U.S. versus 12 worldwide. Other tech giants generate revenue through a range of products, services, and applications—for instance, while a healthy portion of Apple’s revenue comes from iPhone sales, the company captures 17% of revenue from a mix of services, ranging from Apple Pay to Apple Music. But that could change if employers and the U.S. government wise up, especially as America becomes super-aged. By Faraz Haider on April 25 2017 in World Facts. life expectancy of 78 years while girls are expected to live for 83 years. In short, when looking at the many segments of Amazon, one thing is clear—the company is truly the sum of its parts. In 2020, Prime Day is projected to generate almost $10 billion in global revenue. All Rights Reserved, This is a BETA experience. The second most popular U.S. keyword under the home category is toilet paper. 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They now comprise roughly 12% of Japan’s workforce, which is a record there, too. Editor of the Money and Work channels for NextAvenue.org, EY & Citi On The Importance Of Resilience And Innovation, Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit — And Pushing For Change. For instance, enabling third-party sellers on the platform is the company’s second-largest unit in terms of net sales, racking up $63 billion over the course of a year. Germany has also been incentivizing older residents to work longer by pushing back the federal retirement age — it was 65 in 2012 and will be 67 in 2029. It is important to understand the relationship between English and German, as neither language is derived from the other. Below are a few ways the GSA report says Japan, Germany and Singapore have changed their workforce and governmental policies to keep and attract older workers. This makes sense, considering the console’s recent surge in popularity—in March 2020, U.S. sales of the Nintendo Switch more than doubled compared to a year prior.

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