期刊名称：Research Journal of Economics, Business and ICT
印刷版ISSN：2045-3345
电子版ISSN：2047-7848
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
出版社：English Time Schools & Overseas Education
摘要：Population ageing is a process of increasing proportion of seniors in the population, i.e. people in the age of 65 years and more. It can be widely observed in all developed countries over the world. Ageing is accompanied by growing economic dependency carried by productive part of the population, which has to support still larger nonproductive part consisting mostly from seniors. This burden can be measured by increasing proportion of senior in the population, median age, total dependency ratio, youngage and oldage dependency ratio and other indicators. Currently, oldage dependency ratio in the Czech Republic is on the level of 0.216 in 2009. In other European countries the ratio ranges from 0.168 (Ireland, 0.169 (Slovak Republic) to 0.313 (Germany). Using existing population projection, oldage dependency ratio is forecasted to reach the threshold of 0.68 in the year 2060. This means that one person in productive age has to support additional 0.68 individual in postproductive age. Comparison of European countries of both historical and future trends is provided in the paper using population distribution and population projections from EUROSTAT. In all cases, increase of oldage dependency ratio and other indicators is projected. Consequently, European countries have to solve problems arising from population ageing and growing proportion of postproductive generation.
