Aging Population In Vietnam

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Final Research Paper Aging Population in Vietnam Social Problems SOA 221 Instructor: Dr. Shoon Lio Student Name: Anh Nguyet Nguyen Date of Submission 12/15/2011 List of Figure * Figure 1 Viet Nam’s population pyramids in 1989 and 2009 (Source: UNFPA Factsheet: The age and sex structure of Vietnam population: evidence from the 2009 Census) * Figure 2 Map of aging index by province (Source: UNFPA Factsheet: The age and sex structure of Vietnam population: evidence from the 2009 Census) * Figure 3 Projection Methodology for Population and Active Labor Force (Source: Giang and Wade, 2008) * Figure 4 Projected Population, 2050 and 2105 (Source: Giang and Wade, 2008) Introduction This study is about population aging issue that Vietnamese government faces nowadays as the older citizen number in Vietnam continues to increase. The rate of Vietnam’s population over 65 reached 7.5 percent in 2008 and this number has continued to increase rapidly. Besides, Dr. Nguyen Ba Thuy, Vietnam Health Deputy Minister, reported that most of the old people are living under the poverty line. In 2009, the United Nations estimates that the number of old people in Vietnam will reach the number of 29.77 million by 2050. However, in the World Population Day 2011, at a conference organized in Hanoi, the representative of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, reported that Vietnam population is getting older at a highest rate in Vietnam demographic history. Aging population has put Vietnam in many challenging issues of economic growth, as well as on the infrastructure and social protection services. It is important to know the current pressure of population on socio-economic and find out the solution. Objectives The objectives of this study is identify changes in society that affect population aging structure and analyze demographic data, so that we
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