aging population
Society growing older
An aging population is a demographic pattern in which the proportion of older people increases relative to younger generations.
This typically results from declining birth rates and longer life expectancy.
The phrase appears frequently in discussions of healthcare costs, pension systems, and workforce shortages: Japan's aging population has created a labor crisis.
- life expectancyAverage anticipated survival duration
- age distributionPopulation sorted by years
- fertility rateAverage offspring per person
- ageismPrejudice targeting older people
- centenariansPeople aged 100+
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- agingbiological age, old age, biological clock, senescence, geriatrics
- demographicsage distribution, gender ratio, ethnic groups, birth rate, census data
- population termsbillion, million, thousand, hundred, census
- demographybirth rate, death rate, demographics, fertility rate, mortality rate
- Canadian demographicsimmigrants, First Nations, Inuit, Metis, anglophones
- elder caresenior care, aged care, elderly care, gerontologist, geriatrician