{"id":3771,"date":"2025-02-18T13:59:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2025-02-18T13:59:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:59:57","slug":"romania-to-enter-un-list-of-super-aged-societies-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=3771","title":{"rendered":"Romania to enter UN list of super-aged societies in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the United Nations (UN), in 2025, more than 20% of the population in Romania will be over the age of 65, making the country part of the list of super-aged societies, according to Visual Capitalist data quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/economedia.ro\/infografic-romania-se-alatura-in-2025-tarilor-cu-populatii-super-imbatranite.html\">Economedia.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Romania is experiencing fewer and fewer births each year, while the proportion of elderly people continues to grow, causing several economic and social challenges. Importantly, an aging population in a democracy also tends to vote for short-term policies and discourage the long-term planning necessary for prolonged development.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is most visible locally. In many rural communities across Romania, seniors represent almost a quarter of the population.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, the ratio of retirees to employees was 8 to 10, according to the National Institute of Statistics, weighing down the national budget.<\/p>\n<p>Monaco tops the list of super-aged societies, with 36% of its population over 65 years old, followed by Japan (30%) and the island of Saint-Helena (27.8%). There are 43 countries worldwide in this situation, and Romania ranks 42nd.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest data from the National Pension House, there were over 4.5 million retirees in Romania in January 2025, of which more than 3.6 million receive an old-age pension, with the majority being women.\u00a0Additionally, the number of people over 80 years old is rising. As a result, the demand for nursing homes has increased.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe percentage of the global population aged 65 and above is expected to rise from 10% in 2022 to 16% in 2050. It is projected that by 2050, the number of individuals aged 65 years or above across the world will be twice the number of children under age 5 and almost equivalent to the number of children under 12 years,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/global-issues\/ageing\">UN report<\/a> says.<\/p>\n<p>According to estimates, Switzerland, South Korea, Canada, and Taiwan will also reach the super-aged population status in 2025, alongside Romania.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:radu@romania-insider.com\">radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Radub85\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/stock-photos\">Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the United Nations (UN), in 2025, more than 20% of the population in Romania will be over the age of 65, making the country part of the list of super-aged societies, according to Visual Capitalist data quoted by Economedia.ro. Romania is experiencing fewer and fewer births each year, while the proportion of elderly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}