Ageing and shrinking population: The looming demographic challenges of super-aged and super-low fertility society starting from Asia.

demographic transition healthy ageing international collaboration population ageing population shrinkage

Journal

Global health & medicine
ISSN: 2434-9194
Titre abrégé: Glob Health Med
Pays: Japan
ID NLM: 101771579

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
31 Oct 2023
Historique:
received: 29 09 2023
revised: 10 10 2023
accepted: 14 10 2023
medline: 1 11 2023
pubmed: 1 11 2023
entrez: 1 11 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The world is generally getting more prosperous and healthier, and people live longer. Japan, with the world's most advanced population ageing, has made various efforts over the past half-century to prepare for the ageing society. Globally, many countries observe today's rapid demographic changes accompanied by low birth rate and start acknowledging population shrinkage as a looming challenge beyond that of population ageing. The world will face dual challenges of population ageing and shrinkage, but these two issues have been considered in isolation. In addition, the progression differs from region to region and country to country, preventing policymakers from taking a future-back approach to address the core challenges. This issue of

Identifiants

pubmed: 37908514
doi: 10.35772/ghm.2023.01057
pmc: PMC10615022
doi:

Types de publication

Editorial

Langues

eng

Pagination

257-263

Informations de copyright

2023, National Center for Global Health and Medicine.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The author has no conflicts of interest to disclose.

Références

Glob Health Med. 2019 Oct 31;1(1):3-10
pubmed: 33330747
Glob Health Med. 2021 Dec 31;3(6):401-405
pubmed: 35036622
Lancet. 2023 Jan 28;401(10373):246-247
pubmed: 36690013

Auteurs

Hiroki Nakatani (H)

School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
Global Health Innovative Technology Fund, Tokyo, Japan.
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, Jakarta, Indonesia.

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