Talk:Population ageing

message: automatisation?   thats not even a real word...   anybody wnt to clrify
: It's French for "automation" (though one English dictionary lists a definition for it).  Most ghits seem to be for non-English pages.  I've changed it to "automation" in the article.  --Underpants (talk) 01:02, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: wtf

message: Changed the spelling to "aging", since the great majority of occurances of the term "aging" on the world wide web use this spelling.  "Aging" shows up 213 million times, while "ageing" shows up about 40 million times on Google.  The article also looked oddly inconsistent using the alternate spelling when all its references (which the article was apparently based on) and see also links used the main spelling.  The article is now consistent.  --Transhumanist 11:58, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've revereted you. Wikipedia has very clear rules, it doesn't matter what spelling is more popular, both American and Commonwealth English are perfectly acceptable. The rule is that whatever spelling was used first, is used forever. See Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#National_varieties_of_English. - SimonP 12:53, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  (Oops! We're working on this at the same time!) Wikipedia policy on spelling is clear. This article seems to be a weird case, though. It, like most articles written on aging, uses the Canadian/American spelling, but the original title seems to be (though I'm looking into the original change made by SimonP) "ageing". Let's not make any more changes until this is discussed further here. For the time being: "ageing" in the title and "aging" in the article seems best. BrianinStockholm 12:55, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is a link to the earliest version. The spelling "aging" does not appear once in that article. Also I'm not sure what you mean by the American/Canadian spelling, I'm Canadian and I certainly always use "ageing", as I did when I created this article. This page never existed at "Aging population," that was simply one of several redirects I created so no one would be confused by the different possible names. - SimonP 13:01, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  1) All the Canadian research gerontologists I know spell it "aging". 2) About the spelling in the article, and the original title: OK! Pardon rushedness BrianinStockholm 13:04, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  No trouble. In Canada it is often a generational thing, older people tend to use more American spellings and younger ones use British. - SimonP 20:48, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Consistency of spelling throughout article

message: I have added a couple of tags to the top of this article. The references in the article are incomplete. I have improved a couple of them. Some of the references, however, are lacking enough information to be useable as references. Additionally, the references in this article are not properly formed - they are embedded rather than cited using the citation tag. The article as a whole needs a little attention from a referencing point of view. I will try to improve this as I am able.  Hybrazil (talk) 05:51, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup required 

message: The article presently says:
"Canada has the highest per capita immigration rate in the world, based largely on the rationale of countering population ageing. The C. D. Howe Institute, a conservative think tank, has suggested that immigration can not be used a viable means of countering population ageing."
This gives the impression that it is only a right-wing voice making this comment, whereas I am aware that there are a number of moderate voices saying the same thing. It would be good if the article reflected this. I will try to find some references to this effect as a state-of-the-art issue.
Hybrazil (talk) 05:54, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aging not combatted by immigration 

message: There are several doubtful statements in this article.
For instance it is not in general true that a population which is not growing is one that is aging: it is possible to have a steady state demographically, or a population which is shrinking and becoming younger at the same time, because a hump of elderly people is being removed from the population by death.
It is also not true that elderly people have a greater propensity for saving - the time after retirement is when dis-saving occurs.
Ehrenkater (talk) 13:26, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that is a rather odd statement. You can only save if you have an income. Plus, all the 'ageing apocalypse' scaremongers seem to forget that currently the rate of unemployment is around 8% for Europe. So only 92% of the active population is working for both the inactive population (young, old and stay-at-home parents) and the unemployed (because of social security). Therefore if the proportion of inactive in the population rises, there is still a reserve of unemployed to balance the working/non working ratio. With increase of the use of machines, productivity per worker is higher so there's no need for as much workers. Population ageing is a good thing, it just requires to realise that we are not in the "one mouth to feed is two arms to tend the fields" world any more. AtikuX (talk) 04:40, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doubtful statements 

message: The article should maybe mention the role of abortion and euthanasia in the phenomenon of population ageing. In countries and regions where the abortion rate is very high, such as Russia and Quebec, the lower birth rates have been shown to be related to the higher abortion rates. Also, in contemporary societies like these, there is a similar temptation to allow greater use of euthanasia in order to “compensate” the excess of elderly people that were born before the era when abortion legislation was first passed. ADM (talk) 19:00, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Abortion and euthanasia

message: Population ageing is even worse in Third world. Argentina and Uruguay became old and poor. The same is happening in Brazil.Agre22 (talk) 17:15, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Even worse in Third world

message: I highly doubt this statement. In most developing countries the median population age is getting younger rather than older.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.191.56.91 (talk) 07:42, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Excepting 18 countries termed 'demographic outliers' by the UN[1][2]) this process is taking place in every country and region across the globe." 

message: In the article it is written "it is declining fertility that is the largest contributor to population ageing" with a reference. 
I think the statement that fertility is the largest contributor is absurd.
Average life expectancy was much lower in the past. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005148.html shows it has changed from sixty years old in the year 1930, to seventy eight years old today in 2013.
That is eighteen (18) additional life years. This large number of longer lived people makes the population average age higher.--Mark v1.0 (talk) 13:20, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest contributor to population ageing 

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*Reference : Klaus Prettner & David Canning, 2012. "Increasing life expectancy and optimal retirement:does population aging necessarily undermine economic prosperity?," PGDA Working Papers 9112, Program on the Global Demography of Aging.
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thread_title:  Dr. Stancanelli's comment on this article 

message: User ZhiZhi Xu added a "Chinese" (I assume Mandarin?) translation at the beginning of the article. However, I failed to see the point? The concept is not specific to China. I am not against it but I would like to know the added value.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Londpl (talk • contribs) 12:04, 1 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  8. Chinese translation 

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