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Lower birth rates and increased life expectancy are in the coming decades significantly shifting the age distribution of population in developed countries towards older persons and in the second half of the 21st century in most developing countries as well.
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Kuné, J.B. (2003). Introductory observations. In: On Global Aging. Contributions to Economics. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50170-8_1
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