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.
Low birth rates production will create old populations countries. High fertility rates particularly among young people combine with mortality rate and migration can affect aging structure, but fertility dominates the whole. At the end of the century we will witness the lower birth rate for particular countries. Neighboring country like Albania, by contrast, had an even younger population. The apparent incompatibility of Bosnia-new low birth rate is a passing phase. It’s low birthrate, aging population of Bosnia-back style in other countries.
As the rule states that the low birth rate for older populations, the gender difference in survival is another constant of the global population. Keep in recent years, a minimum absolute difference in mortality rates of these populations, with much. The sex ratio in all countries hovers near a man / woman until the age of fifty years. Some elderly and raise the dead, but the difference in survival begins with the issue. Each generation will be older women. The relationship between men and women falling from a man (for women at the age of fifty years, less than half a man / woman, or more than two women per man) most eighty years. At the turn of the century, this system is very young democracies of Central Asia and Eastern Europe in an older population. The most obvious consequence of these concerns marital status in older age groups.
The majority (52 percent) of men were married, even after the eighties. In older countries of the region (Bulgaria) and the new republics of Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were the percentages of women who married at around the same in Hungary.
In contrast, in Hungary, only a quarter of women in seventy and still single. Less than one in ten women remained married until after the eighties. Like the men, the percentage of married women of age was similar in young democracy, as in former Eastern Europe.
Although the percentage of married women who were widowed by age, itself very differently in almost all these countries, the aging population increases the widow problem in the old country. In Poland, the elderly, a similar proportion of women and only about two million single women over the age of sixty-five, or translation of ten women in the general female population.
Like most women are not men in ancient times, children are an important alternative source of social contact and support. However, the very low birth rate, officials of the aging population will also ensure fewer children in the aging population. Figure 1 shows this comparison for the total population, fertility rates are only temporary measures reproductive years. Variability overestimate their long term changes in family size is completed. Lifetime fertility of women has also fallen in the region.