Population ageing

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Follow up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing

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.

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The Programme of Action offers guidance on ways of addressing the major challenges of the future, including increasing urbanization and population ageing, so that its fulfilment would contribute to the attainment of the objectives set both by the United Nations Millennium Declaration and by the Second World Assembly on Ageing.

Second World Assembly on Ageing The LWV attended the UN Second World Assembly on Ageing meeting in Madrid held April 2 12, 2002 and the NGO Forum on Ageing held April 5 9, 2002 and spoke as a member of a panel at the Forum.

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.

1. Welcomes the report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8 12 April 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.IV.4).

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.

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 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.

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Furthermore, population ageing is more advanced in developed countries, where over 15 per cent of the population is aged 65 years or over and just 17 per cent is under age 15.

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.

The present report provides evidence of broad and diverse activities on ageing around the world.

The President of the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations attended the Second World Assembly on Ageing in Madrid, April 2002.

WHO formulated a project to promote an integrated response of health care systems to rapid population ageing in developing countries (the INTRA project).

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The World Assembly on Ageing NGO Forum (April 4 9, Madrid, Spain attended by two representatives.

Historical population movements indicate that international migration can play an important role in offsetting many of the consequences of population ageing and labour shortages, although it may not be able to do so completely.

Noting that the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, 2002, adopted by the Second World Assembly on Ageing,Report of the Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8 12 April 2002 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.02.IV.4), chap. I, resolution 1, annex II. considers older persons and disabilities as a specific issue for policy concern,