中国和亚洲各国人口老龄化比较

在我国人口快速转变过程中,亚洲各国也经历了生育模式和死亡模式的快速转变,人口老龄化格局发生了重要变化。结合这一变化,利用联合国最新数据,在扩大人口老龄化比较对象、延长比较时间的基础上,对我国及亚洲各国的人口老龄化程度、速度和老年人口规模进行了比较,提出了对我国人口老龄化特点的新认识,即中国人口老龄化程度较高、人口老龄化速度较快,老年人口规模大、在未来60年内中国都是世界上老年人口最多的国家。

Comparative Study on Population Ageing Between China and Asian Countries

Compared with developed countries,the main characteristics of population ageing in China have been regarded as a rapid ageing society.However,China and other Asian countries have been experiencing the demographic transition simultaneously,it is better to understand the characteristics of population ageing in China when compared with other Asian countries.Using the latest UN data,this paper compares the percentage of elderly population,the speed of ageing and the size of aged population among China and other Asian countries.The result indicates that China has a relatively high percentage of aged population,relatively rapid ageing population and will keep the largest size of aged population of the world in the next 60 years.