The world's elderly population will hit 2.5 billion by mid-century, surpassing youth for the first time. That demographic shift is irreversible and creates a massive, decades-long opportunity for any business in elder care.
This is a chart that is looking at, of all the people in the world, how many are young right now, meaning under 15, how many are working age, 15 to 65, and how many are elderly, 65+. And the shocking thing about this chart, this is a one-chart business right here, which is the elderly curve goes from today, early 2020s, where it's under 1 billion, it's by far the smallest line, to it's gonna cross over the young population and be at 2.5 billion. And so that's the biggest grower. The working age one kind of flattens out, the young one kind of goes down, and the elderly 2021 has this huge spike. And so if you're building anything that's in the elder care that you're going to own for, let's say, 10, 20 years, you have this immense tailwind behind you. The customer base is going to grow dramatically. It's hard to imagine a scenario that we change the direction of these lines. It would take like a whole societal shift, population-level shift to change where these lines are going.
