FRHD 3060 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Epidemiological Transition, Centenarian, Old Age
30 Oct 2017
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Chapter 4 population aging: a demographic and geographic perspective. Its projected that the population (pop. ) over the age of 65 will increase from about 562 million worldwide (8% of population) to 1. 3 billion (14. 7% of population) In 2018 there will be more people 65+ than kids younger than 5 years-old: oldest countries in 2012. Japan 23. 9: germany 20. 7, sweden 20. 2, greece 19. 8% Italy 20. 5: youngest countries in 2012, qatar 0. 8, uae 0. 9, nauru 1. 7, uganda and kuwait 2. 1, canadian stats. Global demographic and epidemiological transitions: demographic transition: a shift from high fertility and high mortality in a society to low fertility and low morality (usually takes ~100, mortality rates drop quicker than fertility rates, resulting in pop. In order to have a realistic project demographers use a variety of demographic, social, economic, political and environment factors as assumptions: the current avg. of kids per families is 1. 6 (projected 1. 3 in 2021) Aging in developing countries: the compression of aging.
