Sentence examples for elderly ratio from inspiring English sources
Nearly two years after Japan laid claim to the world's highest elderly ratio, the country has hit another milestone.
In particular, an increase of the elderly ratio by one percent is associated with 0.17% increase in health expenditure.
In 2010, the elderly ratio in Korea was 10.2% compare in Japan was 23.1%, this is expected to rise to 14.3% in Korea and 28.4% in Japan by 2018.
Total projected LTC expenditure as a proportion of GDP reflected secular trends in the elderly dependency ratio, showing a shallow dip between 2004 and 2011, but thereafter yielding a monotonic rise to reach 3.0% by 2036.
By 2050, its elderly dependency ratio is projected to be the second highest in the OECD area (A framework for growth and social cohesion in Korea, OECD, June 2011).
"The different story of population ageing told by our real elderly dependency ratio has several important implications for health policy and clinical practice".
So they calculated an alternative measure, what they call "the real elderly dependency ratio", based on the sum of men and women with a remaining life expectancy of up to 15 years divided by the number of people in employment, irrespective of age.
During the same period, the elderly dependency ratio ([population over the age of 65 years] ÷ [population aged 15 64 years] × 100) increased from 6.1%to15.2%2%.
The secular trend for all models reflects changes in the elderly dependency ratio over time, except for hypothetical scenarios 2 and 3, which disregarded demographic changes.
