{UAH} Global AgeWatch Index 2013

Population ageing – when older people account for an increasingly large proportion of the total population – is happening across the world. It is already transforming economies and societies, sparking keen debates on issues ranging from the financing of healthcare, pensions and other social protection measures to policies on labour markets and migration. For this, a robust evidence base is critical. Yet data on the situation of people in later life is still scarce, even in sectors such as public health, employment and the economy, which directly affect the lives of millions.

This report starts by looking at the speed and scale of population ageing, its implications for policy makers and why the Global AgeWatch Index is necessary. In the next section we explain how the Index was constructed. The report goes on to present key findings about older people's wellbeing, globally and regionally. It shows that older people are faring best in Nordic, Western European, North American and some East Asian and Latin American countries, while they fare less well in many African countries and other countries in East and South Asia. However, the findings also indicate that people in countries at similar stages of economic and social development may have widely differing experience of older age, and that older people in some low- and middle-income countries fare considerably better than older people in some wealthier countries.

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