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

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

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.

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

The number of deaths is projected to increase due to higher smoking rates and an aging population in many countries.

I'm not a geriatrician.

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

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.

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.

Population ageing was also a major issue and pragmatic policies should be adopted to utilize that sector of the population more productively and to provide more effectively for their social needs.

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

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.

You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

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

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

There are some creatures on this planet already that don't really do aging.

(e) Co production in English, French, Spanish and Arabic of a 30 minute video documentary exploring how the ageing of the population affects national economies and the structure of the family.

(e) Co production in Arabic, English, French and Spanish of a 30 minute video documentary exploring how the ageing of the population affects national economies and the structure of the family.

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.

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.

It is envisaged that, for many of the topics, given the increased concerns about population ageing, the upper age cut off for tabulating the data will be raised to 100 years plus.

Acknowledging the initiatives undertaken and the momentum generated, at all levels, towards addressing the challenges of the ageing of populations and the concerns and contributions of older persons by the celebration of the International Year of Older Persons,

The increase in the developing world between 1970 and the 2000s is believed to be related to increasing rates of smoking in this region, an increasing population and an aging population due to less deaths from other causes such as infectious diseases.

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.

This may well be the case for Japan, which has a rapidly aging population.

And maybe they're even set really differently in animals with no senescence at all but we don't know.

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 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.

And new demands for fiscal expenditures are expected to grow as the country ages.

However, challenges remain, due to our aging population and the increase in the number of vehicles on our roads.

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

Bearing in mind the importance of capacity building at the national level and of mainstreaming the elderly into national development agendas, the Government had instituted several programmes to provide old age allowances, old age homes, and allowances for widows and abandoned women.

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.

We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother and his father loves him.'

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

It is no longer possible to ignore global ageing regardless of whether one views it positively or negatively.

2. Calls upon Governments and the agencies and organizations of the United Nations system, within their mandates, and encourages the non governmental community, to ensure that the challenges of population ageing and the concerns of older persons are adequately incorporated into their programmes and projects

3. Calls upon Governments and, within their mandates, the agencies and organizations of the United Nations system, and encourages the non governmental community, to ensure that the challenges of population ageing and the concerns of older persons are adequately incorporated into their programmes and projects

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.

4. Invites all relevant agencies and bodies of the United Nations system to coordinate better their response to the global ageing of populations and to integrate within their respective mandates their programmes and activities related to older persons, taking into account the importance of the perspective of older persons

In addition, a series of technical papers on various aspects of rural ageing was published on the FAO website.

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

For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.

For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.