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Ageing In The Asia-Pacific Region : Trends And Policy Implications, David Rosser Phillips
Ageing In The Asia-Pacific Region : Trends And Policy Implications, David Rosser Phillips
APIAS Working Paper 工作論文
Summary
This paper reviews the background to demographic ageing in the Asia-Pacific region and discusses some of the economic and cultural features associated with it. The region includes countries exhibiting a variety of experience in demographic ageing and percentages aged 65 years or more range from 3% to 16%. Fairly distinct sub-regional ageing groupings are emerging. At the demographically older extreme lie Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and Korea. With somewhat smaller percentages of elderly people come China (with huge numbers of elderly people but low per capita income), Thailand and Indonesia and which are likely to have above the …