Vietnam to prepare for aging populationVietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will work with international organisations to develop a population policy agenda at the highest level as the country looks towards becoming an aged nation, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on Tuesday. — Photo: VNA/VNSThe emerging Southeast Asian nation is known to have a rather young and energetic population, Dam said at a three-day biennial conference on the economic impacts of an aging population held in Ha Noi yesterday. Yet little were people aware that Viet Nam was soon to pass its golden population structure, where for every two or more people working there would be a dependent. That would make Viet Nam a ‘super-aged’ nation where more than one in five of the population is 65 or older. Viet Nam is not outside the global trend of an aging population, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region where at least 1.2 billion people over 60 will reside by 2050.

Source: VietNamNet News September 08, 2016 00:56 UTC