Old Age


Hello, in this blog i'm gonna talk about the old age. 
How i wrote in others blogs, in this moment i have a course where i chose my topic of my thesis, and  it's about the old age. This topic is really interesting because the population of people over 60 years old in last years has had an increase. Some of the reasons for this phenomenon are the increase in life expectancy and the decreaes in the birth rate.

Currently, the elderly population in the world population is 12,3%, this corresponds a total of 901 million people over age of 60. In the case of Latin America and the Caribbean, the 11% of the population corresponds at people over 60 years old, in addition to this, in the 2030 is expected to increase the number to 17%.

This is really interesting, but in the case of Chile, i think that is most interesting, because the numbers are higher. According to the 2017 census, the elderly population in the country is 16,2%, this is a total of 2.850.171 people over 60 years old. And an extra information is that the number of older women is greater than older men. It's important, because this have a relation with gender.

Well, i know that this information is a lot of numbers, but this is a contextualization of the old age, and for me is important to knowled. This mean not only in the future will be an important topic by the increase of the people over 60 years old, now it's an important topic, specially in Chile, because the elderly population is high. Social sciences and the anthropology have an important topic to research and where they can provide new information.

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