Armenia becoming aging country – newspaper
December 07, 2013 | 08:00
YEREVAN. – Armenia will become an aging country between 2017 and 2018,
Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports.
`This is inevitable, said Assistant Representative Garik Hayrapetyan
of the UNFPA [i.e., the United Nations Population Fund] Armenia
Office.
`In an interview with our reporter Hayrapetyan explained that
countries are considered aging if 14 percent or more of the population
are people that are 65 years of age and older.
`The number of the elderly in Armenia will make up 33 percent already
by 2050,’ Haykakan Zhamanak writes.
From: A. Papazian
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