The Thorny Issue of Pre-Affluence Aging

• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 经济
• 关键词: 中国 人均收入 收入水平 国际标准
• 年，卷（期）: 2007,（11）
• 页码范围: 4
• 页数: 1页
• 分类号: F123

摘要

<正>One of the internationally recognized benchmarks of an aging nation is when 10 percent of the population is above the age of 60. That China is an aging country is confirmed by 2005 statistics, which place 144 million Chinese citizens – 11 percent of the national population – in the over-60 age bracket.