Population ageing in developing societies: How urgent are the issues?

This note examines expected trends in population ageing, at the regional and country levels, up to 2050, highlighting the wide differences between countries regarding the urgency of the issues. It then looks at ageing in the broader context of changes in age structures and their overall implications for age dependency and indirectly for development. Finally it discusses in-country variations in ageing and shows how these, together with considerations on the socio-cultural characteristics of populations, suggests not to neglect local policy development in the area of ageing.

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