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Future Elderly Living Conditions In Europe: Demographic Insights

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Gender, Health and Ageing

Abstract

During the last three decades, low birth rates and increasing life expectancy have led to the ageing of the European population, which is expected to accelerate during the coming decades. The proportion of the population 60+ and 80+ in the 15 member states of the European Union will increase from 22.4 percent and 4.3 percent, respectively, in 2004 to about 32.4 percent and 7.5 percent in 2030. Trends are similar in Germany: between 2001 and 2035 the share of the population aged 60+ will increase from 24.1 percent to 34.4 percent and the share of over 80-year-olds will increase from 3.9 percent to 7.3 percent (Eurostat 2005, Statistisches Bundesamt 2003). In 1950, this share of people aged 60+ and 80+, respectively, was still as low as 14.0 percent and 1.0 percent in West Germany and 16.0 percent and 1.0 percent in East Germany.

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Doblhammer, G., Ziegler, U. (2006). Future Elderly Living Conditions In Europe: Demographic Insights. In: Backes, G.M., Lasch, V., Reimann, K. (eds) Gender, Health and Ageing. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90355-2_13

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