YOUR WORLD NEWS
OCTOBER 2012
Day 1
World News Japan
A new report calculates that the number of aging people in the world are expected to live at least 60 years of more has the potential growth to become over 2 billion world wide by the year 2050. This report focused also on the evident of the aging Japanese society. Japan is noted as having the highest percentage of elderly which has created new concerns according to the report released by the U.N. Population Fund.
The report warns that Japan is the only country with 30% of its population over 60, by more that 60 other countries from China to Canada and Albania will also show a growing population of the aging. The report indicates that the highest of the population growth is among women who access to jobs and health care is often limited their lives to own and inherit property. In this, the governments are summoned the political to protect the aging communities with good health and dignity and show tighter restrictions of discrimination toward poverty and aging citizens particulary women. The U.N. reports said policy discussions must include considerations of the problems facing the aging since more increases in longer life is expected to forge in longetivy in greater numbers.
As the growing aged population increases the report showed that 1 in nine 810 million people are 60 and older which is used to project that 1 in 5 will be part of the estimated 2 billion of the older generation by 2050. Japan's being the third largest economy has been known to offer meager social benefits for its seniors has shown many of these aging suffer in housing, food, and general healh care.
~O-0~ "People are living longer, but not necessarily with better living conditions."
Posted By: MIISRAEL Bride
Monday, October 1st 2012 at 9:06AM
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