NEED FOR PROMOTING POSITIVE AGEING: SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES

Abstract

Population ageing in developing countries is much more rapid than in the developed regions. In 2013, 55.8% of the world's elderly were in Asia, which is also home to 48.3% of the world's oldest old, a percentage which is expected to increase in the next half century. The second largest number of the elderly in the world are in India. The elderly population has increased several fold between 1950-2001, and it is expected that by 2050, one out of 6 older persons in the world will
be in India.