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- Title
AGING POPULATIONS: MECHANICS, HISTORICAL EMERGENCE, IMPACT.
- Authors
SPENGLER, JOSEPH J.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the mechanisms that bring about an increase in the relative number of aged persons in a population. It deals with the quantitative number of the process whereby the relative number of aged persons increases. It discusses the historical emergence of aging populations in countries including U.S., Ukraine and Japan. It presents the factors which accelerate or are associated with the emergence of aging population. As stated, the aging problem tends to be more acute in countries with both low mortality and low fertility than in countries with high mortality. Two tables showing high-mortality and low-mortality stable population with gross reproduction rate, expectation of life at birth and percentage of stable population aged 15-59 and 60 and above are also presented.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JAPAN; OLDER people; AGING; POPULATION; HUMAN fertility; MORTALITY; LIFE expectancy; STABLE population model; AGE groups; CHARTS, diagrams, etc.
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1962, Vol 27, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1190761