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A Guide on Living Long and Healthily in an Era of Aging Populations
As life expectancy around the globe continues its upward trend, we owe it to society to live prosperously into old age
If you were born in India or South Korea one hundred years ago, it would be considered an anomaly if you lived to see your 24th birthday.
Before the dawn of the 20th century, global average life expectancy was less than 30 years.
When the United Nations first started recording global data in 1960, the average person could expect to live to 52.5 years of age.
Now, global decline in fertility rates and increased life expectancy is ushering in an unprecedented era in human history. A world in which the elderly outnumbers the young.The United Nations has recently described global Population Ageing as:
“one of the most significant social transformations of the twenty-first century, with implications for nearly all sectors of society, including labour and financial markets, the demand for goods and services, such as housing, transportation and social protection, as well as family structures and intergenerational ties”.
Demography has always been a large determining factor behind the formulation of national policy…
