[1] https://www.barrons.com/articles/china-xi-jinping-economics-...
In the black plague, most of the wealth was durable physical assets like land, tools, farmhouses, ect.
In modern economies, wealth usually buys services and consumables. Less cheap labor will be a big hit to these costs. To make things worse, the workers will have to financially support a large aging population with a shrinking young demographic.
Or, all the excess "wealth" could be sucked up by the government/companies/large land-holders and everyone else stay roughly the same.
This is more of a gradual decline AND ageing. The decline isn’t happening because the old are going away; its happening because there are too few young people being born.
That just leads to stasis. Nothing wrong with that, but it completely messes with all our current economic and governance models
Slow growth essentially means that the population pyramid becomes too top heavy. You’re going to have trouble if your country is filled with 70 year old pensioners and the trickle of tax paying 20-40 year olds slows down.