China s elderly population aged 60 and above has reached 300 million, what do you think about pensio

The proportion of the elderly population over 60 years old in China is still very serious, so China's society is seriously aging. Therefore, I think it is more important to ensure basic pension measures.

I feel that providing for the elderly is a difficult task because there are too many elderly people and the expenses that need to be incurred are also very large.

The phenomenon of population aging is becoming more and more prominent, and children should assume the obligation to support the elderly and give the elderly enough living funds.

As of 2022, China's population aged 65 and above has reached 176.03 million people, accounting for the total population.

The proportion of China's population aged 65 and above in the total population is 14%, and the countdown to officially enter the "aging society" has begun at the end of 2019.

In fact, the problem of aging in some provinces of China is very prominent, and in 2018, many provinces such as Sichuan, Jiangsu, and Chongqing in China have crossed the 14% line, that is, they have entered the "aging society".

China has the largest elderly population aged 65 and above in the world, which is more than four times the latest data of Japan.

Criteria for an Aging Society:

The traditional standard of the United Nations is that the number of people over 60 years old in a region reaches 10% of the total population, and the new standard is that 65-year-olds account for 7% of the total population, that is, the region is considered to have entered an "aging society"; If the proportion of the population over 65 years old exceeds 14% of the total population, it will enter the "aging society"; If the proportion reaches 20%, it will enter the "super-aging society".

China has entered the "aging society" in 1999, and has not yet fully entered the "aging society", but China's aging rate is very fast.

As of 0:00 on November 1, 2020, the elderly population aged 60 and above in China was 264.02 million, accounting for the total population; The elderly population aged 65 and above in the country is 190.64 million, accounting for the total population; The dependency ratio of the elderly population in the country is one percentage point higher than that in 2010.

The main characteristics of China's aging population are as follows:

1. The elderly population is huge.

Among the 31 provinces in the country, 16 provinces have a population of more than 5 million people aged 65 and above, and 6 of them have a large loss of more than 10 million people aged 65 and above.

2. The aging process has been significantly accelerated.

Compared with 2010, China's elderly population aged 60 and above and the elderly population aged 65 and above increased by 86.37 million and 71.81 million respectively, accounting for a percentage point and percentage point respectively in the total population.

3. There is a significant difference between urban and rural areas in the level of aging.

The level of ageing in rural areas is significantly higher than in urban areas. The proportion of the elderly population aged 60 and above and 65 and above in the total rural population in the total rural population is one percentage point and one percentage point higher than that of the urban elderly population aged 60 and above and the elderly population aged 65 and above in the total urban population, respectively.

The number of elderly people over the age of 65 is about 100 million.

China has entered the process of rapid aging. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the number of elderly people in China increased by more than 13 million, but during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, according to experts, the number of elderly people in China will increase by more than 57 million, and the total number will exceed 300 million.

The World Health Organization has put forward the concept of "active aging" from the three dimensions of "health, participation and security", and in China, the concept of "active aging" has risen to a new height, and participation is the most important element of elderly health, especially positive aging.

Causes of population ageing

On the surface, the cause of population aging is relatively simple, that is, the birth rate is declining and the life expectancy of the population is increasing. However, due to the objective factors of social development, the formation background of population aging in different countries or regions is different. The process of population aging in China is affected by the general factors of demographic transition.

Theoretically speaking, the demographic transition refers to the process in which the type of population reproduction gradually changes from high birth rate and high mortality rate to low birth rate and low mortality rate in the process of modernization.

Generally speaking, according to the birth rate and death rate, the demographic transition can be divided into three different stages: the first stage is characterized by a high birth rate, a high mortality rate and a low population growth rate; The second stage is a high birth rate, low mortality rate, and high population growth rate; The third stage is low birth rate, low death rate and low population growth rate.