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.

Pollution, poverty and ageing population are the concerns.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Excluding other factors, the ageing of the Australian population will result in smaller numbers of potential recruits entering the Australian labour market each year.

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

With an ageing workforce, we must maximize the participation and well being of all Canadians.

From mid 2004 to mid 2005 ESCAP has provided advisory services in the area of information and training, including on measuring changes in population structure, policy implications of population ageing and long term health care.

Generally, the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina is ageing rapidly, due to the fall of demographic growth, longer life expectancy and the emigration of youth.

The primary purpose of these materials is to reinforce the capacity of FAO member States to address effectively the implications of population ageing for agriculture.

The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific organized an expert meeting on resource mobilization for population ageing programmes, which identified factors contributing to the lack of sufficient resources to implement the Madrid Plan of Action.

UNFPA will use the opportunity of the fortieth session of the Commission on Population and Development in 2007 to monitor population programmes in this area and focus on the impact of population ageing on development as well as programmatic responses to the challenges it presents.

In addition, a changing demographic structure has created more single person households and one child families as a result of our lower birth rate and ageing population.

Governments will increasingly be under pressure not only to devise innovative mechanisms to deal with issues arising from an ageing population but also to ensure the long term viability of social welfare programmes, while minimizing the negative effects on the economy.

The implementation of national and regional action plans established in line with the Shanghai Implementation Strategy Regional Implementation Strategy for the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing 2002 and with the Macao Plan of Action on Ageing for Asia and the Pacific 1999 could provide an enabling and supportive environment for ageing.

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.

A study on the implications for employment and fiscal policies of population ageing in the Commonwealth of Independent States is under way and preliminary results are expected in early 2006.

The fact that ageing is not a transient issue makes it necessary to respond to the ageing process in time.

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

In 2005, UNFPA convened a meeting of experts to discuss policy and programme priorities in the field of population ageing, the Fund's comparative advantage and the strategic way forward in this area.

The findings showed that 32 Member States expressed concern regarding population ageing 10 Member States provided social security or pension schemes to older persons and institutional care was provided in 15 countries.

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The most important feature of the demographic transition in the next half century, with respect to the Asia Pacific region, is the rapid ageing of the population in countries that are still developing.

8. Invites the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council to integrate the issues of population and individual ageing into their work in order to promote implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action

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.

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The needs of ageing populations are of growing concern.

However, the Territory still faces problems associated with a shrinking tax base, an ageing population and the exodus of skilled individuals leaving in pursuit of higher wages offshore. St. Helena's heavy dependence on aid from the United Kingdom and other external funding for capital and technical investment allows the population to enjoy a higher standard of living than local resources would be able to sustain.

6. Invites the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council to integrate the issues of population and individual ageing into their work in order to promote the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action

The diversity of ageing in the region means that different policy responses are called for in different countries depending on their current and expected levels of ageing.