Old age

Not only the young people but the elderly in Turkey are also spending a great amount of time in front of screens, said a head of an association combating digital dependency.       

Demographic ageing gained further ground last year, as the elderly population aged 65 and above exceeded by 434,000 the number of the young aged 0 - 14, the National Institute of Statistics (INS) said in a release published on Thursday. On January 1, 2019, more than 3.674 million people were in the elderly age bracket, while the young population was 3.240 million strong.

Greece's demographic crisis as demonstrated by a number of recent studies will undoubtedly have a significant impact on many vital sectors like the economy and defense.

There is a lot of talk about the problems that loom for Greece down the road, but very little - if anything at all - is being done to combat the effects of a shrinking and ageing population.

For every three Bulgarians in working age from 15 to 64 years old there is one retired person over 65 years of age, according to data from Eurostat analysis on the degree of dependence of the elderly in the EU towards the working population in the EU in 2017, reports mediapool.

A Japanese woman born in the final year of the 19th century and believed to have been the world's oldest person died on April 21, Kyodo news agency said. She was 117.

Masazo Nonaka from Japan was recognised today as the world's oldest man at the ripe old age of 112, as his family revealed his secret: sweets and hot baths. Nonaka, who was born on July 25, 1905 — just months before Albert Einstein published his theory of special relativity — received a certificate from Guinness World Records at home on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido.

Aging populations are an expensive business and suppress growth, the European Central Bank has warned, while recommending that countries delay the age of retirement as the best solution to the problem.

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May has created a new post in the Cabinet - the "Minister of Loneliness", and appointed Deputy Minister for Sports and Civil Society Tracey Crouch.

Figures shows that the country's population grew to 82.8 million in 2017, more than 3 million higher than in the numbers announced in December 2016. Along with the population increase, marriage and divorce rates also rose in Turkey, Daily Sabah writes.

The number of blind people across the world is set to triple within the next four decades, researchers suggest, reported BBC.

Writing in Lancet Global Health, they predict cases will rise from 36 million to 115 million by 2050, if treatment is not improved by better funding.

A growing ageing population is behind the rising numbers.