Wednesday, March 30, 2011
[IWS] World Bank: POPULATION AGING: IS LATIN AMERICA READY? [28 March 2011]
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World Bank
POPULATION AGING: IS LATIN AMERICA READY?
[Read Online: full-text, 324 pages]
Report advises Latin American countries to prepare for a ‘greying revolution’; rapid aging no longer a rich country phenomenon.
Region’s life expectancy jumped by 22 years in last half-century; population now dominated by working adults with fewer children.
Report recommends building stronger health systems, delaying retirement age, reforming pension systems and creating more jobs for women to expand the workforce.
Press Release 28 March 2011
Latin America: Ready for an Aging Revolution?
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March 28, 2011—Population aging is a global issue that affects a growing number of countries around the world, especially at a time when family support and other traditional safety nets have become far less certain in the aftermath of the global economic crisis.
In Latin America, for example, life expectancy has jumped by 22 years over the last 50 years and its population is now dominated by working-age adults with significantly fewer children. The region faces the prospect of rapid aging.
A new report from the World Bank’s Human Development Network warns that governments and communities in the region cannot afford to be complacent about a ‘greying revolution,’ given that the next 50 years will be very different from its past half century.
According to Population Aging: Is Latin America Ready?, economic growth in Latin America will be more challenging in countries with large numbers of elderly people and meeting health care, pension, and other needs will be especially difficult for low- and middle-income countries. Establishing appropriate policies and institutions to accommodate the region’s powerful demographic shifts will be vital to safeguard Latin America’s social and economic future, says the report.
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