National Health Commission: Around 2035, the elderly population aged 60 and over will break 400 million, accounting for more than 30%

On the morning of September 20, the National Health Commission held a press conference to introduce the progress and results of the work on the elderly since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and to answer reporters' questions
.
Wang Haidong, director of the Department of Aging of the National Health and Health Commission, introduced that China's aging has shown a large number, fast speed, large differences and heavy tasks
.
First, the number of elderly people is large, and the population is aging rapidly
.
By the end of 2021, there will be 267 million elderly people aged 60 and above nationwide, accounting for 18.
9% of the total population; The elderly population aged 65 years and above reached more than 200 million, accounting for 14.
2%
of the total population.
According to estimates, it is expected that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the total number of elderly people aged 60 and above will exceed 300 million, accounting for more than 20%, entering the stage
of moderate aging.
Around 2035, the elderly population aged 60 and above will exceed 400 million, accounting for more than 30% of the total population, entering the stage
of severe aging.
Second, there are large
regional differences in population aging.
From the perspective of urban and rural areas, the number of elderly people in urban areas is higher than in rural areas, but the degree of aging in rural areas is higher
than that in urban areas.
According to 2020 data, there are 10 provinces with a population aged 60 and over accounting for more than 20% of the population under their jurisdiction, mainly concentrated in the northeast, Sichuan-Chongqing and other regions
.
Third, the task of coping with the aging of the population is heavy
.
By around 2050, the size and proportion of China's elderly population, the old-age dependency ratio and the social dependency ratio will reach a peak
successively.
With the continuous increase of the elderly population and the deepening of the aging of the population, it has brought challenges to the supply of public services and the sustainable development of the social security system, and the task of coping with it is very heavy
.
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