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05-21-2010, 06:00 PM
Besides the natural aging that comes with the accumulation of the years in one's body, in general terms, the overall Dominican population is getting older. Demographic data from the National Statistical Office (ONE) show a declining trend in the percentage of the Dominican population under the age of 14. Currently, this segment of the population represents 31.48%, while there is a rising curve of people over the age of 15, which represents the remaining 68.52%.
The ONE data confirm the regional prognosis that was made by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which warns that by 2050 nearly a quarter of the inhabitants of the region will be over 60 years of age.
In their report "Demographic transformations and their influence in the development of Latin America and the Caribbean", ECLAC establishes that the aging process is more accelerated than in the past and that the number of the elderly will go beyond all estimates. In the country, the percentage of 14 years or less in 1950 was 45.37%, and by the year 2000 this had fallen to 35.08% and according to projections by ONE, for 2050 it will be barely 19.86%.
Meantime, the percentage of Dominicans aged 65 or over went from 2.74% to 5.03% in 2000, and 5.94% at the present time and it is estimated that in the next 40 years it will reach 15.12%. The population change, which according to experts generates a greater social cost and a great worry due to the lack of Government services, is based in turn by a change in the birth rates and life expectancy of Dominicans, which, while the former is decreasing, the latter is increasing.
The latest report by the ONE on "National Population Projections 1950-2050", carried out in 2008, shows that the Total Fertility Rate, measured by the number of children born to each woman, fell from 7.6 live births in 1950 to 2.67 currently, and it is estimated that by 2050 it will be 1.87. On the other hand, life expectancy for Dominicans increased from 45.9 years in 1959 to 72.24 currently and is projected to reach 77.78 in 2050.
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The ONE data confirm the regional prognosis that was made by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which warns that by 2050 nearly a quarter of the inhabitants of the region will be over 60 years of age.
In their report "Demographic transformations and their influence in the development of Latin America and the Caribbean", ECLAC establishes that the aging process is more accelerated than in the past and that the number of the elderly will go beyond all estimates. In the country, the percentage of 14 years or less in 1950 was 45.37%, and by the year 2000 this had fallen to 35.08% and according to projections by ONE, for 2050 it will be barely 19.86%.
Meantime, the percentage of Dominicans aged 65 or over went from 2.74% to 5.03% in 2000, and 5.94% at the present time and it is estimated that in the next 40 years it will reach 15.12%. The population change, which according to experts generates a greater social cost and a great worry due to the lack of Government services, is based in turn by a change in the birth rates and life expectancy of Dominicans, which, while the former is decreasing, the latter is increasing.
The latest report by the ONE on "National Population Projections 1950-2050", carried out in 2008, shows that the Total Fertility Rate, measured by the number of children born to each woman, fell from 7.6 live births in 1950 to 2.67 currently, and it is estimated that by 2050 it will be 1.87. On the other hand, life expectancy for Dominicans increased from 45.9 years in 1959 to 72.24 currently and is projected to reach 77.78 in 2050.
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