Research into Global Ageing and Its Consequences
Abstract
With the further growth of the world population and the further intensification
of the processes of interaction between countries and increasing movements of
the masses of people, the role of Political Demography becomes more and more
important. Issues of global ageing, migration, low fertility in developed countries
(or very high fertility in some African countries), high mortality in many
developing states (including deaths from AIDS); rapid change in the ethnic
composition in Europe and in several other regions and many other pressing
issues are in the focus of this discipline. Some of these problems are analyzed
in this yearbook. However, among those issues, the issue of global ageing becomes
more and more pressing every year. It is sufficient to take into account
the point that within two forthcoming decades a rapid global increase in the
number of retirement-age persons will lead to its doubling within this fairly
small historical period. The concerns about population ageing apply to both
developed and many developing countries and it has turned into a global issue.
In the next decades the population ageing is likely to become one of the most
important processes determining the future society characteristics and directions
of technological development.
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