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Aging Trends in Barbados

February 16, 2021 Seniors

The aging of Barbadian population is un­usual in several respects. The median population age, as discussed below, is ris­ing rapidly relative to other nations, in­cluding those of Europe and North  America. Among developing countries, Barbados now has one of the highest pro­portions of older persons, with 17 percent of the population aged 55 and over and nearly 11 percent having reached or sur­passed age 65. Both figures are consider­ably above the Caribbean average (table 1), and are due in part to a steep decline in fertility since 1970, which has lowered the proportion of population in younger age groups. At the same time, however, the  number of persons aged 55 and over is declining slightly, and will remain es­sentially unchanged in the early 1990’s. This reflects, to some extent, the aging of cohorts that have been deci­mated by past emigration. Source 

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