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100 million elderly by 2013 in young India
In the next one year, the population of elderly people in ‘young India’ is expected to reach the 10-cr (100-million) mark. And by 2050, the figure will reach 32.6 crore (326 m).
In a written reply on Friday, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Azad told the Lok Sabha, “The Population Projection made by Technical Group on Population Projections indicated that 100-million mark is expected to be reached in 2013.”
The projection made by the United Nations has indicated that India will have 198 million people aged 60 and above. “By 2050, the figure will reach 326 million,” Azad said, adding “The Government has launched the National Programme for Health Care of Elderly (NPHCE) in 2010-11 to address health related problems of elderly people.”
As things stand, 72 per cent of India’s population is below 40 years of age.
“Funds have been released to eight Regional Geriatric Institutions and 91 districts in 20 States,” he said. The major components of the NPHCE during 11th Five Year Plan were establishment of dedicated hospitals for elderly and creating Department of Geriatric at identified medical centres.
In reply to another question on “unsafe abortions”, the Minister said, “As per the estimates published by researchers from Guttmacher Institute, New York and WHO in the Lancet in Jan 2012, unsafe abortions constitute 65 per cent of the total abortions in the South Central Asian sub-region.”
Estimates of the proportion of unsafe abortions are not provided separately for India which is one of the countries in this sub-region, he said.
In the next one year, the population of elderly people in ‘young India’ is expected to reach the 10-cr (100-million) mark. And by 2050, the figure will reach 32.6 crore (326 m).
In a written reply on Friday, Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Azad told the Lok Sabha, “The Population Projection made by Technical Group on Population Projections indicated that 100-million mark is expected to be reached in 2013.”
The projection made by the United Nations has indicated that India will have 198 million people aged 60 and above. “By 2050, the figure will reach 326 million,” Azad said, adding “The Government has launched the National Programme for Health Care of Elderly (NPHCE) in 2010-11 to address health related problems of elderly people.”
As things stand, 72 per cent of India’s population is below 40 years of age.
“Funds have been released to eight Regional Geriatric Institutions and 91 districts in 20 States,” he said. The major components of the NPHCE during 11th Five Year Plan were establishment of dedicated hospitals for elderly and creating Department of Geriatric at identified medical centres.
In reply to another question on “unsafe abortions”, the Minister said, “As per the estimates published by researchers from Guttmacher Institute, New York and WHO in the Lancet in Jan 2012, unsafe abortions constitute 65 per cent of the total abortions in the South Central Asian sub-region.”
Estimates of the proportion of unsafe abortions are not provided separately for India which is one of the countries in this sub-region, he said.
