An ageing population
Is migration a solution?-October 22, 2013
Population ageing occurs when the median age of a nation rises due to rising life expectancy, people living longer and/or combined with a fall of the birth rate. In the developed world, an increase in life expectancy has in the past caused the median age to increase and the population to age rapidly. More recently, even in less developed countries, this has occurred, except for 18 nations declared to be ‘demographic outliers’ by the United Nations, those that do not fit into the world standard norm.The fact that the population is ageing is the reality in every other country in the world. In recorded human history, the world has never before experienced an aged population as of today. The UN’s prediction is that the rate of population ageing will, in the present century, exceed that of the previous century.
