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- Title
Measures and Trend of Demographic Support and Dividend of Ageing Process in Bangladesh.
- Authors
Uddid, M. Taj; Islam, M. Nazrul; Kabir, Ahmed
- Abstract
The impacts of population ageing create social and economic presure on the society. This study is an attempt to assess the demographic support and dividend of aging process in Bangladesh. The population census data from Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics during the period 1951 to 2001 has been used in the analysis. Different measures of socio-economic support ratio's have been computed to carry out the study. From the analysis, a very slow decreasing trend of potential support ratio has been observed. The ratio is greater in urban than in rural. Also the ratio is poor in non-muslim community than muslim community. A declining pattern of young old ratio has also been observed showing a gap between urban and rural areas. From the analysis, it is clear that future support to the elderly will be poor for both urban and rural areas if the current trends prevail. An increasing trend of active population has also been observed over the study period. The analysis reveals that urban has more active population than rural. Non-muslim community shows more active population than Muslim. Therefore it can be concluded that the support capacity of elderly is decreased due to demographic transition.
- Subjects
POPULATION aging; AGING; RURAL elderly; SOCIAL pressure; BANGLADESH. Bureau of Statistics
- Publication
Indian Journal of Gerontology, 2013, Vol 27, Issue 2, p280
- ISSN
0971-4189
- Publication type
Article