Population ageing

The needs of ageing populations are of growing concern.

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.

There is growing demand, growing population.

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.

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.

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

India s growing population keeps breaking its own record.

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

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.

By contrast, the Arab population in Jerusalem is 36 , and growing.

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.

In Venezuela, a population of Santería followers has been growing since 2008.

This relatively young and growing population has placed strains on Mongolia's economy.

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.

Most worrying is the ever growing tax burden placed on the rural population.

There was a need to expand the colony to accommodate its growing population.

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.

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

The population of Galápagos is growing at a rate of approximately 6 per year, more than double population growth of mainland Ecuador.

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.

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.

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.

It has also been reported that indigenous women constitute the fastest growing prison population (art.

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.

This implies serious risks for a primary source of protein needed for a growing world population.

Public services there are no longer adequate given the increased demand of a constantly growing population.

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.

And, despite Turkey s fast growing population, per capita GDP has tripled since 2002, reaching 10,500 in 2010.

In many of the most severely affected areas, one other thing is apparent a rapidly growing population.

Cole's Axiom The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant the population is growing.

Despite the low birth rate, the population is still growing at an average annual rate of 0.23 .

Due to large and growing population in China, the government supports urban self sufficiency in food production.

From the late 1990s onwards, the majority of the population has been part of the growing middle class.