eprintid: 13891
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creators_name: Sanderson, W.C.
creators_name: Scherbov, S.
creators_id: 1631
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creators_orcid: 0000-0002-0881-1073
title: A new perspective on population aging
ispublished: pub
divisions: prog_pop
keywords: age/aging, historical demography, life expectancy, median age, population forecasting, prospective age
abstract: In Sanderson and Scherbov (2005) we introduced a new forward-looking definition of age and argued that its use, along with the traditional backward-looking concept of age, provides a more informative basis upon which to discuss population aging. Age is a measure of how many years a person has already lived. In contrast, our new approach to measuring age is concerned about the future.
In this paper, we first explore our new age measure in detail and show, using an analytic formulation, historical data, and forecasts, that it is, in most cases, insensitive to whether it is measured using period or cohort life tables. We, then, show, using new forward-looking definitions of median age and the old age dependency ratio, how combining the traditional age concept and our new one enhances our understanding of population aging.
date: 2007-01-16
date_type: published
publisher: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
id_number: doi:10.4054/DemRes.2007.16.2
creators_browse_id: 265
creators_browse_id: 270
full_text_status: public
publication: Demographic Research
volume: 16
number: 2
pagerange: 27-58
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1435-9871
coversheets_dirty: FALSE
fp7_project: no
fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
citation:   Sanderson, W.C. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/265.html> & Scherbov, S. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/270.html> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0881-1073 <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0881-1073>  (2007).  A new perspective on population aging.   Demographic Research 16 (2) 27-58. 10.4054/DemRes.2007.16.2 <https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2007.16.2>.       
document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13891/1/A%20new%20perspective%20on%20population%20aging.pdf