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East Asia Forum quarterly (Online), 2019-07, Vol.11 (3), p.26-27
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Canberra: Australian National University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
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Population projections from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs confirm that Japan will remain the world's most aged country for at least the next few decades. The 2019 Revision of World Population Prospects, released in June 2019, predicts the proportion of people aged 65 years and older in Japan will increase from the current level of 28 per cent to 38 per cent by 2050. During this period, Japan's population will shrink by nearly 20 per cent. These demographic trends set the fundamental context for challenges and changes to Japanese society in the coming decades. Japan's population has been getting older over the past 100 years, but this process accelerated at the turn of the century when the large cohort of postwar baby boomers, born in the late 1940s to early 1950s, began joining the elderly population. During the period 2000-10, the country's population aged 65 and over increased by an unprecedented total of over seven million. This population is likely to increase by another seven million by 2020.