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Report: Aging in
Africa (Spring 2011)
The global population is aging. Economic security,
health and disability, and living conditions in later
life are policy concerns throughout the world.
However, the specific challenges differ considerably
from continent to continent and between and within
countries – especially within Africa. The majority of
the world's population of older people (61 per cent,
or 355 million) live in poorer African countries. One
good thing about the older Africans, however, is that
they are perceived as repositories of information and
wisdom and so they are well respected.
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