FRANKFURT AM MAIN: Germany's ageing population will undermine potential economic growth by the middle of the next decade as more of the baby boomer generation heads for retirement, the country's central bank predicted Monday.

"In the medium term, falling population and the ageing of the workforce in Germany will significantly reduce economic growth," economists from the Bundesbank in Frankfurt wrote in their monthly report for April.

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