{"id":57730,"date":"2017-05-27T03:42:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T10:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/pensions-time-bomb-for-worlds-biggest-economies-could-explode-to-400-trillion-says-wef"},"modified":"2017-05-27T03:42:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T10:42:28","slug":"pensions-time-bomb-for-worlds-biggest-economies-could-explode-to-400-trillion-says-wef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/pensions-time-bomb-for-worlds-biggest-economies-could-explode-to-400-trillion-says-wef","title":{"rendered":"Pensions time-bomb for world\u2019s biggest economies could explode to $400 trillion, says WEF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pensions-time-bomb-for-worlds-biggest-economies-could-explode-to-400-trillion-says-wef.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Future generations are on course to become enveloped in the biggest <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/pensions\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/pensions\/\" target=\"_self\">pension<\/a> crisis in history, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF), unless policymakers from the world\u2019s leading economies take urgent action.<\/p>\n<p>The Geneva-based organization predicted the challenges of an ageing population could result in the world\u2019s largest economies being forced to tackle a pension time-bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Analysis from WEF showed six countries with the biggest pensions, including the U.S., Canada, U.K., Netherlands, Japan and Australia, as well as the two most densely populated countries in the world \u2013 China and India \u2013 would face a retirement savings gap in excess of $400 trillion in 2050, up from around $70 trillion in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/05\/26\/pensions-time-bomb-for-worlds-biggest-economies-could-explode-to-400-trillion-says-wef.html\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/05\/26\/pensions-time-bomb-for-worlds...s-wef.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Future generations are on course to become enveloped in the biggest pension crisis in history, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF), unless policymakers from the world\u2019s leading economies take urgent action. The Geneva-based organization predicted the challenges of an ageing population could result in the world\u2019s largest economies being forced to tackle a pension [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}