Please click here to view this information or follow the links in the more user-friendly design of the data base, allowing for direct access to related information. Over the next 35 years, the proportion of the world's population that is over 60 will almost double, from 9 percent to 16 percent. Populations are aging rapidly due to rising life expectancies and declining fertility rates. This puts added strain on extended families and other traditional ways of supporting the old which are already weakening under the pressure of urbanization, industrialization, and increased mobility. At the same time, public systems of old age security are themselves in need of reform.
Most existing systems are very costly even though they provide inadequate protection for the old.
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