Benefits of an aging population:
1. The level of education continues to improve, and the ability to accept new things and use information technology generally increases.
2. Have accumulated a certain amount of wealth and have strong desire and ability to consume elderly care products and services.
3. With the development of economy and society, people’s life expectancy in self-care will continue to increase, thus greatly reducing the elderly group’s dependence on external forces in their daily lives.
Disadvantages:
1. The large elderly population puts pressure on the construction of the pension security system and the development of medical care.
2. The rapid aging process goes hand in hand with the reduction of the total labor force. The aging age structure of the labor force brings challenges to the sustained and healthy development of the economy. With the expansion of the elderly population, my country's total working-age population has begun to shrink year by year since reaching its peak in 2011, and the age structure of the labor force has also begun to age.
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Causes of population aging:
1. my country’s family planning policy began in the 1970s, which directly led to a significant increase in my country’s fertility rate. reduce.
2. With the development of the economy and the advancement of science and technology, people's living standards have greatly improved. Coupled with the continuous improvement and upgrading of national medical equipment, people pay more attention to health and wellness, and people's life span is also extended. This This directly increases the proportion of my country’s elderly population in the total population.
3. The result of the simultaneous effects of the two aspects is the continuous decrease in the proportion of the young population and the relative increase in the proportion of the elderly population, which ultimately leads to the rapid development of population aging in our country and the aging trend becomes more and more intense.