{"id":495447,"date":"2016-03-11T10:29:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T09:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.varesenews.it\/?p=495447"},"modified":"2016-03-11T10:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T09:29:18","slug":"how-the-population-is-changing-the-number-of-elderly-people-has-doubled-in-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.varesenews.it\/2016\/03\/how-the-population-is-changing-the-number-of-elderly-people-has-doubled-in-30-years\/495447\/","title":{"rendered":"How the population is changing: the number of elderly people has doubled in 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

The subject of demography<\/strong> will increasingly become the dominant theme in the public debate. To a large extent, it already is, with the thousand ways in which welfare has changed: we need only consider how important the discussion about pensions has become<\/strong> and the numerous disputes that follow every attempt to change.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the truth is that we are having to deal with a profound change in the population<\/strong>, in which the distribution of young people, adults and the elderly is radically different from previous decades.<\/p>\n

Let us begin by analysing the movement of the population, starting, initially, with the age groups in 1982 and in 2015<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

From the moving graph, we can see how the age groups of the population in Varese Province have changed in a little more than 30 years:
\n\"Demografia<\/p>\n

The first thing we can see is that the elderly population, aged 65 years and over<\/strong>, has literally doubled.<\/p>\n

The largest age range is still that of 35 \u2013 65 years, which numbered 389,701 people, in 2015<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Still in 2015<\/strong>, the number of women over 65 was much greater than the number of men<\/strong>, 114,646 compared to 85,006, and they were equal in the age range 35 \u2013 65 years: women numbered 195,687, and men, 194,014.<\/p>\n

In the next graph, where it is possible to analyse them, year by year, we can also see the number of centenarians<\/strong>. In 1992, for example, there were only 29 people aged 100 and over, whereas, in 2015, their number was 283.<\/p>\n

The data, obtained from the Italian Central Institute of Statistics, contains actual numbers and provisional data for 2015.
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