International Day of Older Persons 1 October 2002

Meeting the Challenges of Ageing


 

Report of the Secretary-General A/57/93
 Live Webcast: DPI/NGO Briefing
programme (3 October 2002)
Secretary-General's message
Dag Hammarskjöld Library Resource Page
The Global issue of Ageing Second World Assembly on Ageing
(Madrid, April 2002)
Meet the people the UN helps International Day of Older Persons 2001

The world is getting older. in the next 50 years, the number of older persons will nearly quadruple, growing from about 600 million to almost 2 billion people. Today, one in every ten is 60 years and older. By 2050, one out of every five will be an older person, and by 2150, one third of the people in the world are expected to be 60 years of age or older.



 


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