Aging Populations in Eastern Europe and Former USSR

Spanning twenty-seven independent countries, the populations represent all possible situations in which people aging. The speed and extent of aging is also high in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The remaining countries (Turkmenistan and Tajikistan in Central Asia, was the northern border of Iran and Afghanistan) are only less than 4 percent of people age over 65 years old. More than 40 percent were children under fifteen years. For every person age sixty-five or older, these countries had 10 kids under 15 years old. (more…)












