CHINA’s DEMOGRAPHICS:  Is China cooking the books on its recent census data? Will it get old before it gets rich? China’s Economic Observer says that China has reached its labor force peak and is on track to repeat Japan’s fate – except that Japan’s per capita income is $40,000 a year, while China’s is $4,000:  “China’s labor age group of the 15-64 years old will reach its peak in 2013, and then start to decrease. Changes to the 19-22 years old age group are key to a country’s demographic health, because they are the most active part of the population and what business needs most. In 2009, this age group attained an historical high of 100 million but will rapidly decrease to 58 million by 2019, a drop of 43% over just 10 years.”