Living conditions of the elderly - a European comparison
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The number of 65 year olds and older rose in the nineties alone by 12% or 1.4 million to 13.5 million. Their share in the total population has risen from 14.9% to 15.7%. At the same time people are living longer, spending a longer period of their lives as pensioners. The proportion of eighty year olds in the German population as a whole has risen eight-fold since the beginning of this century from 0.5% to a current 3.9% and is expected to more than double again by the year 2040.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001