How to pronounce "overdue"

2014 is a very special year for me:

20 years as a consultant,

20 years of marriage,

and I'm turning 50 in one month.

That means I was born in 1964 in a small town in Germany.

It was a gray November day,

and I was overdue.

The hospital's maternity ward was really stressed out

because a lot of babies were born on this gray November day.

As a matter of fact,

1964 was the year with the highest birth rate ever in Germany:

more than 1.3 million.

Last year, we just hit over 600,000,

so half of my number.

What you can see here is the German age pyramid,

and there, the small black point at the top, that's me.

(Laughter) (Applause)

In red, you can see the potential working-age population,

so people over 15 and under 65,

and I'm actually only interested in this red area.

Now, let's do a simple simulation