source: new Volkswagen
5 month 24, the provincial government press office held a press conference to introduce the elderly population information and the development of aging cause in Shandong Province Situation。 The party newspaper Jun learned from the meeting that in 2017, the population of 60 years old and above in our province reached 21 million 373 thousand, accounting for 21.4% of the total population, higher than the national average of 4 percentage points; 65 years old and above were aged to 13 million 998 thousand, accounting for 14% of the total population, and higher than the national average of 2.6 percent. In the elderly dependency ratio (the aging population and the proportion of labor population), the age of 65 years old and older in the whole province was 20.3%, which was 7 percentage points higher than that of the sixth census in 2010. Compared with the national average, the situation of population aging in our province is more severe, and the burden of social endowment is heavy.
it is reported that the proportion of elderly population in 12 cities of 17 provinces and municipalities in our province is over 20%, and it has entered a moderately aging society. The most serious aging is Weihai, with an aging population of 27.8%, followed by 27% in Yantai and third in Rizhao City. The lowest degree of aging is Liaocheng, with an aging population of 18.4%. In the structure of the elderly population, the population of the aged (60-69 years old) is 12 million 938 thousand, accounting for 60.5% of the total aged population; 5 million 954 thousand of the aged 70-79 years old, accounting for 27.8% of the total aged population; 2 million 481 thousand of the aged aged 80 and above, accounting for 11.7% of the total elderly population.
"Shandong is the largest province of the elderly population in the country. Since 2010, the elderly population in Shandong has been increasing rapidly, with a net increase of 80 to 1 million of the elderly population every year. The person in charge of the provincial Office of Aging said that Shandong province belongs to the early liberation area of the country. The stable social development environment after liberation and the founding of the people's Republic of China has made the population of the whole province increase rapidly. Now, the elderly people in the "60" stage are basically the generations after the founding of the people's Republic. The breakthrough 20 million of the elderly population in Shandong province is an important milestone in the process of population aging in Shandong Province, which highlights the severe situation and rapid development trend of the aging population in Shandong province.