Among the national population, the population aged 0- 14 is 253,383,938, accounting for17.95%; /kloc-the population aged 0/5-59 is 894,376,020, accounting for 63.35%; The population aged 60 and above is 2640 18766, accounting for 18.70%, of which the population aged 65 and above is 190635280, accounting for 13.50%.
Compared with the sixth national census in 20 10, the proportion of people aged 0- 14 increased by 1.35 percentage points, and the proportion of people aged 15-59 decreased by 6.79 percentage points, the proportion of people aged 60 and over increased by 5.44 percentage points, and the proportion of people aged 65 and over increased by 4.65 percentage points.
In 3 1 province, there are 13 provinces with population aged 65-59 above 65%, 15 provinces with population between 60% and 65%, and 3 provinces with population below 60%. Except Tibet, the proportion of elderly people aged 65 and above in other 30 provinces all exceeds 7%, and the proportion of elderly people aged 65 and above in 12 province exceeds 14%.
China's elderly population will reach its peak around 2050.
The aging in China presents the trend and characteristics of large quantity, high speed, great difference and heavy task.
China has a large number of elderly people, and the population is aging rapidly. By the end of 20021,the number of elderly people aged 60 and above in China reached 267 million, accounting for18.9% of the total population; The number of elderly people aged 65 and above exceeds 200 million, accounting for 14.2% of the total population.
According to estimates, it is estimated that during the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the total number of elderly people aged 60 and over will exceed 300 million, accounting for more than 20%, and they will enter the stage of moderate aging. Around 2035, the number of elderly people aged 60 and over will exceed 400 million, accounting for more than 30% of the total population, and they will enter a stage of severe aging.
At the same time, there are great regional differences in population aging. From the perspective of urban and rural areas, there are more elderly people in cities than in rural areas, but the degree of aging in rural areas is higher than that in cities. According to the data in 2020, there are 10 provinces in which the population aged 60 and above accounts for more than 20% of the population in the jurisdiction, mainly in Northeast China, Sichuan and Chongqing.
China faces the arduous task of coping with the aging population. Around 2050, the scale and proportion of the elderly population, the old-age dependency ratio and the social dependency ratio in China will reach the peak one after another. With the continuous increase of the elderly population, the degree of population aging is deepening, which brings challenges to the sustainable development of public service supply and social security system, and the task is very heavy.