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An Aging World: 2001 Issued November 2001 P95/01-1 An Aging World: 2001 Issued November 2001 P95/01-1 International Population Reports By Kevin Kinsella and Victoria A. Velkoff An Aging World: 2001 An Aging World: International Population Reports U S C E N B R A Demographic Programs U.S. Department of Health and Human Services U.S. Department of Commerce National Institutes of Health Economics and Statistics Administration NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING U.S. CENSUS BUREAU ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This report was prepared by and activities of the Census Bureau (as Kevin Kinsella and Victoria A. well as to many other agencies in the Velkoff under the general direction of United States and worldwide) for the bet- Peter O. Way, Chief, International ter part of two decades. Programs Center (IPC), Population Within the IPC Aging Studies Branch, Division, Census Bureau. Research for Valerie Lawson was instrumental to and production of this report were sup- the completion of myriad tasks involving ported under an interagency agreement data compilation, verification, table and with the Behavioral and Social Research graph production, and general report Program, National Institute on Aging, preparation. Branch members Wan He Agreement No. Y1-AG-9414-01. and Jennifer Zanini also contributed to For their review of and/or suggestions this report. regarding this report, the authors are Frances Scott, Janet Sweeney, grateful to Emily M. Agree, Department Barbara Adams, and Arlene C. Butler of Population Dynamics, Johns Hopkins of the Administrative and Customer University; Nikolai Botev, Population Services Division, Walter C. Odom, Activities Unit, Economic Commission for Chief, provided publication and printing Europe; Richard V. Burkhauser, management, graphics design, and com- Department of Policy Analysis and position and editorial review for print Management, Cornell University; and electronic media. General direction James C. Gibbs, Assistant Center Chief, and production management were pro- IPC; Albert I. Hermalin, Institute for vided by Michael G. Garland, Assistant Social Research, University of Michigan; Chief, and Gary J. Lauffer, Chief, Linda Hooper, Aging Studies Branch, Publications Services Branch. IPC; Rose Maria Li, Behavioral and Social Research Program, National Thanks also are due to Lorraine Wright Institute on Aging; Jean-Marie Robine, of the Bureau’s Information and Equipe INSERM Demographie et Sante, Resources Services Branch, who cheer- Montpellier; Beth J. Soldo, Population fully and efficiently handled the acquisi- Studies Center, University of tion of a multitude of necessary sources Pennsylvania; Richard M. Suzman, and references. Behavioral and Social Research Program, Finally, we would like to thank those National Institute on Aging; Peter O. international organizations and associa- Way, Chief, IPC, Loraine A. West, tions engaged in the collection, tabula- Eurasia Branch, IPC; and tion, analysis and dissemination of data Richard Woodbury, National Bureau relevant to the aging of the world’s pop- of Economic Research. We also thank ulation. In particular, we would like to David Rajnes, Housing and Household acknowledge the efforts of the Economic Economic Statistics Division, U.S. Census Commission for Europe, the International Bureau, who provided useful data and Labour Office, the International Network other information regarding retirement on Healthy Life Expectancy, the and pensions. International Social Security A very special debt of gratitude is owed Administration, the Organization for to George C. Myers, former director of Economic Co-Operation and the Center for Demographic Studies at Development, the Statistical Office of the Duke University, who passed away in European Union, the United Nations 2000. Not only did Dr. Myers offer Population Division, the United Nations instructive comments on this report, but Statistical Office, and the World Health he also provided invaluable advice and Organization. guidance to the aging-related products An Aging World: 2001 Issued November 2001 P95/01-1 U.S. Department of Commerce Donald L. Evans, Secretary Economics and Statistics Administration Kathleen B. Cooper, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs U.S. CENSUS BUREAU William G. Barron, Jr., Acting Director Suggested Citation Kinsella, Kevin and Victoria A. Velkoff, U.S. Census Bureau, Series P95/01-1, An Aging World: 2001, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001. ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS ADMINISTRATION Economics and Statistics Administration Kathleen B. Cooper, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs U.S. CENSUS BUREAU William G. Barron, Jr., Acting Director William G. Barron, Jr., Deputy Director John H. Thompson, Principal Associate Director for Programs Nancy M. Gordon, Associate Director for Demographic Programs John F. Long, Chief, Population Division For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free 866-512-1800; DC area 202-512-1800 Fax: 202-512-2250 Mail: Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-0001 20 Questions About Global Aging (to test your knowledge of global population aging at the turn of the century) Answers appear on next page. 1. True or false? In the year 2000, children under the 11. True or false? Today in some countries life expectancy age of 15 still outnumbered elderly people (aged 65 at birth is less than 40 years. and over) in almost all nations of the world. 12. What are the leading killers of elderly women in 2. The world’s elderly population is increasing by approx- Europe and North America? imately how many people each month? a. Cancers b. Circulatory diseases a. 50,000 b. 300,000 c. 500,000 d. 800,000 c. Respiratory diseases d. Accidents 3. Which of the world’s developing regions has the 13. True or false? Elderly women outnumber elderly men highest aggregate percent elderly? in all developing countries. a. Africa b. Latin America 14. There are more older widows than widowers in virtu- c. The Caribbean d. Asia (excluding Japan) ally all countries because: 4. China has the world’s largest total population (more a. Women live longer than men than 1.2 billion people). Which country has the b. Women typically marry men older than themselves world’s largest elderly (65+) population? c. Men are more likely than women to remarry after divorce or the death of a spouse a. Japan b. Germany c. China d. Nigeria d. All of the above 5. True or false? More than half of the world’s elderly 15. In developed countries, recent declines in labor force today live in the industrialized nations of participation rates of older (55 and over) workers are Europe, North America, and Japan. due almost entirely to changing work patterns of a. Men b. Women c. Men and women 6. Of the world’s major countries, which had the highest percentage of elderly people in the year 2000? 16. What proportion of the world’s countries have a public a. Sweden b. Turkey c. Italy d. France old-age security program? a. All b. Three-fourths c. One-half d. One-fourth 7. True or false? Current demographic projections sug- gest that 35 percent of all people in the United States 17. Approximately what percent of the private sector will be at least 65 years of age by the year 2050. labor force in the United States is covered by a private pension plan (as opposed to, or in addition to, public 8. True or false? The number of the world’s “oldest old” Social Security)? (people aged 80 and over) is growing more rapidly than that of the elderly as a whole. a. 10 percent b. 25 percent c. 33 percent d. 60 percent 9. More than one-third of the world’s oldest old live in 18. In which country are elderly people least likely to live which three countries? alone? a. Germany, the United States, and the a. The Philippines b. Hungary c. Canada d. Denmark United Kingdom b. India, China, and the United States 19. True or false? In developing countries, older men are c. Japan, China, and Brazil more likely than older women to be illiterate. d. Russia, India, and Indonesia 20. True or false? In most nations, large cities have 10. Japan has the highest life expectancy at birth among younger populations (i.e., a lower percent elderly) than the major countries of the world. How many years the country as a whole. can the average Japanese baby born in 2000 expect to live? a. 70 years b. 75 years c. 81 years d. 85 years U.S. Census Bureau An Aging World: 2001 iii Answers 1. True. Although the world’s world’s growth rate for the 80+ But because older men work in population is aging, children still population from 1999 to 2000 much greater numbers than do outnumber the elderly in all was 3.5 percent, while that of older women, increases in major nations except six: the world’s elderly (65+) popula- female participation were more Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy, tion as a whole was 2.3 percent than offset by falling male partic- Japan, and Spain. (compared with 1.3 percent for ipation. the total (all ages) population). 2. d. The estimated change in the 16. b. Of the 227 countries/areas total size of the world’s elderly 9. b. India has roughly 6.2 million of the world with populations of population between July 1999 people aged 80 and over, China at least 5,000, 167 (74 percent) and July 2000 was more than has 11.5 million, and the United reported having some form of 9.5 million people, an average of States 9.2 million. Taken togeth- an old age/disability/survivors 795,000 each month. er, these people constitute nearly program circa 1999. 38 percent of the world’s oldest 3. c. The Caribbean, with 7.2 per- 17. d. The share of the private sec- old. cent of all people aged 65 or tor U.S.
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