Population ageing

Technical Meeting on Population Ageing

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

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

(e) The older population itself is ageing.

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.

(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.

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.

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.

In the developed world in particular, high cost medical interventions combined with an ageing population have made the marginal health returns of many interventions extremely expensive.

Follow up to the Second World Assembly on Ageing

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.

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

Second UN Second World Assembly on Ageing, Madrid, 8 12 April 2002 Statement on rural women and ageing presented by this organisation.

The Secretary General will submit to the Commission a report on major developments in the area of ageing since the Second World Assembly (report on the world ageing situation), which could include short regional contributions (regional ageing situations) by the regional commissions.

Discussions during the interregional consultation organized by the secretariat produced the following suggested themes Improving the life quality of older persons Empowerment for sustainable engagement Successful adjustment to an ageing world Active ageing in place and Meeting the challenges of an ageing world .

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

Follow up to the International Year of Older Persons Second World Assembly on Ageing

Follow up to the International Year of Older Persons Second World Assembly on Ageing

Follow up to the International Year of Older Persons Second World Assembly on Ageing.

Follow up to the International Year of Older Persons Second World Assembly on Ageing.

(b) Complemented by a report on the world ageing situation in the following year

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.

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