The proportion of the working-age population cannot keep pace with the rate of growth in the youngest and oldest age brackets, which will lead to a rise in the demographic dependency load. A rapidly increasing segment of the electorate will belong to the older generation. In 2002, 25 per ...
Besides, the proportion of people from ethnic groups excluding Han in the country's total population has grown 0.4 percentage points compared with the previous census. China is home to 56 ethnic groups. The steady growth of the population of ethnic groups has fully reflected the comprehensive deve...
The ageing of a country’s population has a variety of effects on its society and economy. Of most serious concern is the impact on public finances for pensions and medical care. But ageing not only increases the burden on the younger generation, it also depletes the resources necessary to ...
THE ELDERLY DEPENDENCY RATE IN URBAN AREAS OF TRANSYLVANIA REGION BETWEEN 1992 AND 2021doi:10.24193/subbgeogr.2021.2.03ROMANIACITIES & townsAGINGPopulation ageing becomes a serious issue not only in developed countries, but also in a post-socialist country such as Romania. ...
Tang emphasized the urgency of implementing comprehensive measures before 2035 to ensure the country is prepared for the challenges posed by its aging population. The guiding policy document proposes strengthened basic elderly care services with a focus on providing care for seniors with disabilities, as...
China had become a country with an aging population by the end of the 20th century. Dealing with the aging of its population is a long-term strategic task for China. “The National Survey on Elderly People in Urban and Rural China” has been carried out four times since the year 2000. ...
26), a combination of historical spatial information of population, and country-level projections of GDP and total population from model outputs based on shared socio-economic pathways (SSP) were used as inputs. In accordance with the SSP narratives, the urbanization level under SSP1 assumes a ...
Indeed, we go from a situation where over 30% of the developing country population is poor, to between 3% and 13%. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the region with the highest rate of extreme poverty in the World, rates fall from 55% to between 15% and 36%. Second, the child–adult poverty ...
Virtually every European country collects data on how people travel. In addition to these official databases, which may in some cases give limited information on the needs and travel patterns of specific groups, a number of survey studies have been performed. Some of these focus on the needs an...
When the proportion of the population aged 60 years and over or 65 years and over is high, it usually indicates a higher level of population ageing in the country or area. Two subsystems, medical service utilization rate and medical cost, have been chosen for the medical resource demand ...