U.S. Census Bureau Reports ‘Unprecedented’ Demographic Shift
  • 8 years ago
The U.S. Census Bureau has released a report titled “An Aging World: 2015” which finds that the proportion of older people in the world will outnumber that of younger people before 2020 for the first time in history.

A global demographic shift is underway which the U.S. Census Bureau has called “unprecedented.” 
The agency recently released a report funded by the National Institutes of Health titled, “An Aging World: 2015” which states, “For the first time in human history, people aged 65 and over will outnumber children under age 5.” 
This occurrence is projected to happen before the year 2020, with the divergent trend continuing through 2050; by this time, t
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