The number of elderly people in China amounts to 194 million, accounting for 14.3% of the total population.
source: the JINGWAH times
according to the Xinhua news agency, China's first blue book on aging career development report (2013) of China's aging career development (2013) was released yesterday in Beijing. According to the blue book, by the end of 2012, the number of elderly people in China has reached 194 million, an increase of 8 million 910 thousand over the previous year, accounting for 14.3% of the total population.
Wu Yushao, deputy director of the national Aging office and director of China's aging research center, introduced at the press conference that with the new China's new born population entering the old age, we have the first peak of the elderly population growth. In 2013, the number of elderly population will exceed 200 million, reaching 202 million, and the aging level will reach 14.8%.
at the same time, China's working age population has entered a negative growth. The child's dependency ratio increased from 23.96% in 2012 to 24.36% in 2013, and the elderly dependency ratio rose from 20.66% in 2012 to 21.58% in 2013, pushing the total social dependency ratio up from 44.62% in 2012 to 45.94% in 2013.
"the aging, disability and empty nest" of the elderly population will further aggravate the severity and complexity of coping with the aging of the population. Wu Yushao said.
Blue Book pointed out that with the rapid development of aging population and aging population, the absolute scale of disabled elderly in China is increasing rapidly. At present, there are more than 36 million disabled and disabled elderly in urban and rural areas in China.
"the phenomenon of a disabled old man crushing a family is not a special case in China. The long-term care of the elderly, especially the cost of nursing, not only makes it difficult for many elderly people to deal with the risk of disability, but also a bottleneck restricting the development of China's old-age service. " The blue book says.
according to the newly revised law on the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly, the state has gradually carried out long-term nursing support to ensure the elderly's nursing needs. In addition, some Business insurance company in Beijing, Shanghai and other places began to explore the establishment of long-term care insurance system and develop long-term care insurance products to solve the long-term care cost of disabled elderly.