Not only that the low birth rate leads directly to the aging population, a purely arithmetic on the number of young people, and economic and political context of these developments will strengthen the relationship. The traditional family-based between generations is not possible if we put more people involved (mostly women, will not survive longer than men), most with fewer children. Many countries face this problem in the world, and raise taxes on households of working age to pay for new programs for the aging population.
Demographic Aging concurred with the growth of the welfare state in many countries. National budgets in many rich countries, demographics of Western Europe at the turn of the century it was common for government revenue by nearly half the total GDP of the economy. Heavy taxes cut down the disposable income of young families, hence it discouraging births. Fewer births have the consequences for increasing aging population. The result is the growing concern of policy makers and scientists of the world’s population.
This strategy was not available, governments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union when they entered the twenty-first century, for the first time. It was a legacy of centralized, saddle mismanagement and oppression, the former political system totally discredited, and for many people, destroys trust in government. The alienation and cynicism, ubiquitous throughout the region, mass production of tax evasion. The public sector in these countries has decreased throughout the region from the Baltic to the Caspian Sea. At the turn of the century, available data show the income of the state as a much smaller proportion of GDP in these countries than in Western Europe (even if it were possible to disrupt the GDP of these economies) measure.
Governments are faced with the collapse of the revenue had to decide where to allocate its scarce resources that remain. A victim of the lack of state money, is the system of health care, because in all these countries have been largely integrated into health professionals working in government. As it continued, health care has been starved of resources. To the extent that health care is privatized, introduced directly into the hands of many citizens of these countries have done. Consequently, the economic prosperity of providing good health associated with age, both within and between countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
It shows that (in rich countries, particularly in Central Europe and the Baltic republics), the share of life of women with disability costs was much lower than in the poorest countries in the region (especially in the republics of Central Asia). For example, explains the relative prosperity of the Czech Republic, because the health of older people was better in this country. Of course, the relationship between money and health is not just in this region. It seems that if market forces dominate life.
The strongest of all sectors of affected population is the growing number of pensioners, the crisis was exacerbated by the retirement age, especially in the era of socialist rule, men are generally in the sixties for retirement, and women in many countries during the retirement of fifty-five, although men still survived for many years. Techniques have increased the pressure this time in many countries after the collapse of state socialist governments, but even so, the older citizens of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have found their monthly bill fell to the vanishing point of real purchasing power. Although largely invisible because people are too old and too fragile to go on the road and subject to strike resulting in poverty and despair are a very real human tragedy involved.
Regarding the care of elderly members of the population, the initial period of transition from communism judged by history as a failure discouraged. But just because companies have failed in Eastern Europe and the old answers of the former Soviet Union turn of the twentieth century, in response to population aging, have entered the new century with a stronger incentive to develop any one else in the world new and innovative ways to meet this demographic challenge.
For more information on the situation in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and the source of much of digits used here, see US Census Bureau publication aging Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and Velkoff Kinsella see the sites by the World Health Organization the World Bank.
