50. With demographic ageing, care recipients are changing there are fewer children needing care and more of the very old.

Population ageing, the process by which older individuals form a proportionately larger share of the total population, was one of the most distinctive demographic events of the late twentieth century.

The rapid ageing of the population in the region, in particular the ageing of the older population, would increase expenditure on public health.

In recent years, associations of retired and older persons have increased in number across the world a result not only of population ageing but also a response to age discrimination and exclusion.

Dalam kurun waktu itu, tantangan tantangan dari cepatnya penuaan yang terjadi pada masyarakat akan muncul utamanya di negara negara maju. Tetapi pada tahun 2040 nanti sekitar 55 negara juga akan berjuang mengatasi tingginya jumlah penduduk lanjut usia, ketika Amerika Serikat, Tiongkok, Singapura, Thailand dan Puerto Riko juga masuk ke dalam kategori super aged.

Population ageing

Moreover, health and nutrition transitions are putting new cost pressures on countries in terms of growing populations, ageing and higher dependency ratios.

(e) The older population itself is ageing.

Technical Meeting on Population Ageing

The report believed that the hindrance to growth in human capital as a result of aging has become increasingly apparent. This was particularly the case in the Northeast, where the annual average contribution of aging to human capital growth was 1.28 .

However, over the long run, the demographic bonus dissipates as the population continues to age and the dependency ratio rises again because of increasing proportions of elderly persons.

Relative ageing of the old age population itself is becoming a notable feature of the ageing process in the region.

These changes mainly reflect the growing number of elderly population, as the population gentrifies.

It was the first in a series of regional conferences that will lead to a global memorandum on ageing, charting the needs and expectations of each region within the context of a growing older population.

Beginning in 1999, the increase in enrolment has become steady and has demonstrated a tendency to accelerate due to the ageing population of subscribers.

That really has to do with our aging population.

(d) The interplay of population ageing and development.

19. Individual and population ageing are interacting with technological and cultural evolution, generating change and complexity.

An aging population will require more spending on health care.

According to internationally accepted standards on aging, a country or region where the share of the population aged 60 and above accounts for 10 or those aged 65 and above account for 7 , is an aging society.

Internationally, the number of poor people has increased and the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people have worsened.

The real challenge in Europe is continued stagnation and rising public sector fiscal pressures in bloated welfare states with rapidly aging populations. Restoring growth, opportunity, prosperity, and financial stability will require bold solutions to five inter related problems.

As a consequence there would be changes in the world age structure, with an overall ageing of the world population.

At the same time, the population growth of people aged over 65 years is also 3.6 , reaching 700,000.

According to official data, China s old age dependency ratio the ratio of those aged 65 and up to working age people (aged 15 64) currently stands at 13 . As the one child generation ages adding some ten million retirees annually this ratio will skyrocket, with the labor surplus that supported China s economic miracle giving way to a severe shortage that depresses growth.

In addition, the 1999 Report on World Population Monitoring will contain a chapter on population structure, which will include sections on changing population age structures and socio economic aspects of changing age structures.

The general level of expenditure will be increased in order to meet the health needs of a population undergoing a complex process of epidemiological transition and ageing.

Growing populations, climactic change and natural disasters had profoundly affected agricultural productivity.

Dynamics of population ageing how can Asia and the Pacific respond?

Rapid ageing of the population, with a shrinking labour force, will impose pressure on public expenditure on pensions as the number of retirees increases while the number of contributors to pension funds becomes smaller.

These are the sorts of unbelievable excuses that people give for aging.

Yet, according to a number of representatives, remittances would continue to increase due to migratory pressures in labour exporting countries and ageing populations in labour receiving countries.

With economic growth, the aging of the population, improved levels of education, the emergence of new diseases and the re emergence and persistence of old diseases, demand for medical services can be expected to grow substantially.

In addition to providing the full distribution of populations by sex and age by five year age groups to 100 years and over, the published results include several summary statistics on population ageing, including the proportion of the population aged over 60 years and over 65 years, median age of the population and old age dependency ratios.

62. For debate Responses to individual and population ageing have evolved piecemeal.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is holding an international technical meeting on population ageing during October 1998.

It also considers longer term issues relating to the dynamics and diversity of trends in population ageing in the region.

Pension in respect of cessation of employment at an advanced age under the retirement, cessation of employment at an advanced age and old age scheme.

After all, aging is not a piece of cake.

As the demand for donor organs continues to rise, in large part due to the aging population, the supply has remained relatively constant.

Western Europe is increasingly inhabited by aging populations that have lost the incentive and enthusiasm to work hard, take risks, and be ambitious. Without an inflow of new blood and new ideas, the old Continent's economic future looks bleak.

The age structure of BiH population from 1991 was borderline stationary regressive , with an insignificantly narrowed demographic pyramid.

Such factors included the changing demographic profile of the Palestine refugee population, with 40 per cent of the population being below the age of 18 and 24 per cent being women of reproductive age, and the dramatic rise in cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.

As populations age, some shift of resources in favour of an expanding population group is necessary.

In 2003, this ratio dropped to 42 , still a high value, but it reflects the process of population aging.