Demographic Prognosis for South Asia: a Future of Rapid Ageing
This study analyses the situation of population ageing in South Asia. 1 At present the eight countries of this sub-region together account for 15 per cent of the World’s and nearly 25 per cent of the developing world’s older population. These proport...
UNFPA, (2009)
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Population Ageing in East and South- East Asia: Current Situation and Emerging Challenges
“Population ageing”, defined as the increasing proportion of older persons. in the total population, has come to dominate the demographic scenario in most developing countries. While until the closing decades of the twentieth century population agein...
UNFPA, (2006)
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