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By Kevin Kinsella and David R. Phillips
Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
• www.prb.org • 2005
Populations are growing older in countries throughout the world. While the populations of more developed countries have been aging for well over a century, this process began recently in most less developed countries, and it is being compressed into a few decades. By 2050, nearly 1.2 billion of the expected 1.5 billion people age 65 or older will reside in today’s less developed regions. Just 22 percent of the world’s older people will live in what we today call more developed countries. This demographic transformation will profoundly affect the health and socioeconomic development of all nations.
Read more: http://www.prb.org/pdf05/60.1GlobalAging.pdf
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