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Europe - Active Ageing and Solidarity Between Generations2012 edition
A Statistical Portrait of the European Union 2012
Women tend to live longer
than men. As a result, the ratio of women compared with men increased from 1.1
for those aged 50 to 64, to 1.2 among those aged 65 to 79, before reaching 1.9
for the very old (those aged 80 or more). There were 12 countries where the
number of very
old women was at least twice as high as the number of very old men, this ratio rising to around three times as many very old women as very old men in the Baltic Member States.
There was a considerable
increase in the proportion of persons aged 65 or over during the 20 year period
from 1990 to 2010 (see Figure 1.1). Within the EU‑27, the
share of persons aged 65 or over in the total population rose by 3.7 percentage
points during the period under consideration to reach 17.4 %. There was
particularly rapid growth in
Although there were far more elderly women than men, Figure 1.2 shows that the number of elderly men was growing at a faster pace during the period from 1990 to 2010 – and as such some of the gender difference was redressed.
The parent support ratio
(defined as the number of persons aged 85 or over per 100 persons aged 50 to 64
years old) may be used to assess the demands on families to provide support for
their eldest members. Indeed, it will become increasingly common for people in
their fifties and sixties to have surviving parents. This ratio stood at 11.0
for the EU‑27 on 1 January 2010, peaking in
SEE FUL REPORT - Figure 1.2: Proportion of women among the population, various age groups, EU‑27 (%)