As they say, demography is destiny

Via Business Insider: “The number of people in the normal "working age" category (usually 15-64 years old) will go negative in 2016.”
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/china-and-the-asian-tigers-are-going-to-see-a-massive-economic-roadblock-next-year--and-theres-no-solution-2015-4#ixzz3Y7koSl3q

A major factor in the rise of robots to augment the shrinking workforce.