Ageing in Nepal / Rafiqul Huda Chaudhury.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Chowdhury, Rafiqul Huda, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population and Demography.

Nepal.

Local Subjects:

Population and Demography.

Nepal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (20 pages)

Contained In:

Asia-Pacific Population Journal Vol. 19, no. 1, p. 61-80 19:1<61 15644278

Place of Publication:

New York : United Nations, 2004.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Consistent with the pattern observed in other countries, Nepal's population is ageing as fertility and mortality levels decline. During the last three decades, the total fertility rate has declined by one third, from around 6 children per woman in the 1970s (United Nations, 2001) to around 4 at the turn of the century (Ministry of Health, 2002). For the corresponding period, the life expectancy at birth has increased by nearly 20 years to reach about 60 years (United Nations, 2001). The decline in fertility and mortality has resulted in an increase, albeit modest, in the share of the population aged 60 years and over from about 6 per cent of the total population in the 1970s (United Nations, 2001) to about 7 per cent in 2001 (2001 Population Census). The older population grew faster (2.73 per cent) than the national population (2.07 per cent) during the last two decades (1981-2001). The share of the older population in the total population is expected to grow even further with the accelerated decline in fertility and mortality occurring in the twenty-first century. The percentage of the overall population aged 60 and over will increase nearly twofold by mid-century with fertility reaching replacement level and life expectancy at birth approaching 75, according to the United Nations medium variant projections (United Nations, 2001).

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