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| The increase in our aging population presents many opportunities and also several public health challenges that we need to prepare for ©Fred Dufour (AFP) |
The number of people
globally aged 65 and over is expected to more than double by 2050 as the
world's senior population continues to rocket, a US study says.
AFP
report continues:
The
global population is aging at an unprecedented rate with 8.5 percent of people
worldwide -- or more than 600 million -- now aged 65 and over, said the US Census
Bureau report.
If
the trend continues nearly 17 percent of the global population, or 1.6 billion
people, will be in the 65-and-over age bracket by 2050.
"People
are living longer, but that does not necessarily mean that they are living
healthier," said Richard Hodes, director of the National Institute on
Aging (NIA), which commissioned the study, "An Aging World: 2015."
"The
increase in our aging population presents many opportunities and also several
public health challenges that we need to prepare for."
"NIA
has partnered with census to provide the best possible data so that we can
better understand the course and implications of population aging."
By
2050, global life expectancy at birth is projected to increase by almost eight
years, from 68.6 years in 2015 to 76.2 years, the study said.
The global population of
the "oldest old" -- people aged 80 and older -- is expected to more
than triple between 2015 and 2050, from 126.5 million to 446.6 million.
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