12/04/17

Aging and the Elderly

SOC 468- Demography and Population Studies

Life Expectancy in Europe

Kaynak: Avrupa Birliği İstatistik Ofisi, 2014, Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu, 2013-2015
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90

80

70

60

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Erkek
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Kadın

30

20

10

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Almanya
Avusturya
Belçika

Finlandiya

Hollanda
İngiltere

İsveç
İsviçre
İtalya
İzlanda

Lüksemburg

Malta
Norveç

Portekiz
Liechtenstein
Litvanya

Romanya

Türkiye
Fransa

Letonya
İspanya

Polonya

Yunanistan
İrlanda

Karadağ

Makedonya
Danimarka
Bulgaristan

Estonya
Çek Cumh

Slovenya
Slovakya
GKRY

Macaristan
Hırvatistan

Sırbistan

Population Pyramids
Age pyramid- visual representation of age groups in a population.
https://populationpyramid.net/kenya/2020/

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Population Pyramids

•  The Youth Bulge

•  Developing countries
•  Reduced infant mortality, but high fertility rates
•  Blessing and/or a curse?
•  Closely related to economic growth, development, and
productive employment of the youth

Significance and impact of

aging
•  Dependency ratio: measure of those who are 0-14 and
+65 years of age (as % of the working population)
•  http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?
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•  Retirement age
•  Life expectancy
•  How to solve the problem? Can we solve it?

•  Government expenditure on health care and pensions

•  Lower or higher taxes?

Significance and impact of

aging
•  Shrinkage of the labor force- shortage

•  New, or changing avenues for the economy

•  Nursing homes
•  Social programs for the elderly

•  Immigration, how is it related to aging?

•  Inequality
•  Who retires when?

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Youtube videos

•  Hong Kong- aged and abandoned

•  Aging Japan

•  Sandwich generation