Population ageing

Technical Meeting on Population Ageing

The needs of ageing populations are of growing concern.

(e) The older population itself is ageing.

(d) The interplay of population ageing and development.

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

The population is growing.

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

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

Activities focus on research of the demographic aspects of population ageing and related policy issues, including studies aimed at understanding the social and economic causes and consequences of population ageing.

The human population is growing very rapidly and is growing exponentially.

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.

Here among the poorest , population is growing.

And the world population will stop growing.

The Population Division integrates population ageing and associated policy issues into its technical work programme, publications and support for the Commission on Population and Development.

Experts on ageing, design and sustainable environment will discuss the future of design as a vehicle for addressing the social needs of the ageing population.

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.

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

An updated version of the wall chart World Population Ageing will also be published during 2005.

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

This issue has become even more important in the light of the growing medical needs of this ageing community.

The ageing index of the population (population aged 60 years and over divided by population below 15 years of age) is 30.1 compared to a world average of 33.4.

The process of population ageing is therefore more advanced in China, where nearly 10 per cent of the population are aged 65 years or over.

It will also support research activities, advocacy efforts to renew interest in population ageing, and ageing initiatives, including the work of non governmental organizations in this area, and capacity building.

United Nations consultant on demographic topics, including population ageing and its social and demographic consequences, Geneva, Switzerland, 1985

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

They have a growing population therefore they need more and more food.

It can be seen that explosions contribute substantially to the growing population.

Reforms in the labour market are required to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities presented by population ageing.

In Suriname, a national advisory board was established to provide the Government with the necessary advice on population ageing.

6. Encourages the international community to support national efforts to provide funding for research and data collection initiatives on ageing in order to better understand the challenges and opportunities presented by population ageing and provide policymakers with more accurate and more specific information on gender and ageing

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

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

The presence of migrants must help finance social benefits, particularly in countries with an ageing population and low birth rate.

The United States of America will hold a conference in the spring of 1999 on longevity and active ageing. It will be future oriented to showcase federal policies, programmes and plans for an ageing population.

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.

Recent publications of the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs focused on gender perspectives of policies on reproductive rights and health, migration, mortality, ageing and population.

A workshop on population ageing in Europe and North America was held jointly by ECE and AARP in Geneva in 1995.

The Government established the Presidential Committee on Ageing and Future Society early in 2004 to analyse and assess social and economic changes caused by rapid population ageing and advise the president on appropriate long term policies.

The United Nations Population Division has said it will stop growing at 10 billion.

The aims are to review policy initiatives, national mechanisms and priority issues arising from population ageing since the International Conference on Population and Development to draw the attention of policy makers to the social and economic implications of population ageing and the needs of the elderly and to produce a set of recommendations to improve the quality of life of older persons.

(c) In collaboration with UNFPA, to pursue the population activities, with a reduced resource base, relating to reproductive and family behaviour, international migration and population ageing, progressively focusing on the latter.

The Pan American Health Organization continues to work on a research agenda on population ageing and the development of regional training programmes.

UNFPA has also continued to promote national capacity building indirectly by supporting training institutes, including the International Institute on Ageing in Malta and the international programme on population ageing in developing countries at Columbia University in New York.