What’s Next for Old Europe? | Aging with Growth in Central Europe and the Baltics
2015
World Bank
Europe’s population is growing older. People are living longer and healthier lives. WealthierEuropean Union (EU) countries have enjoyed near‐universal access to better health care and seenpublic health promotion and lifestyle changes that have reduced the morbidity and mortality dueto heart disease, an effort known as the “cardiovascular revolution”. As a result the EU‐15countries enjoy an average life expectancy of 81 years. At the same time, EU‐15 countries havealso witnessed a drop in fertility since the 1970s, though recently fertility has stabilized or reincreasedin a number of countries.
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