AGEING IN ASEAN

Ms. Rodora Turalde-Babaran

Director, Human Development
ASEAN Secretariat
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ASEAN 10 Member States

2015: 632 Million
2030: 723 Million
2050: 790 Million
Population in ASEAN
0%
5%

1%
8%

3%

1%
13%

18%

53%
64%

41%

1980

63%

59%

27%

23%

19%

2015

2030

2050

0-14

15-59

60-79

80+

SHARE OF ELDERLY POPULATION IN ASEAN

MEMBER STATES
2015

2030

2050
40%
37%

31%

31%
28%

27%
24%
19%

19%

18%

17%

15%

13%
10%
8%

Brunei

7%

8%

Cambodia Indonesia

8%
6%

Lao

14%
9%

18%

18%
16%

14%

13%

9%

10%

10%

7%

Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand

Source: Profiles of Ageing 2015, UNDESA accessed at http://esa.un.org/unpd/popdev/Profilesofageing2015/index.html

Vietnam

Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Ageing:

Empowering Older Persons in ASEAN

Shared responsibility approach & intergenerational solidarity

Rights-based/needs-based and life-cycle approach
Eliminate all forms of maltreatment
Human capital and expertise on gerontology, geriatrics, etc.
Reliable information, evidence-based and gender-disaggregated
data
Mainstream population ageing issues into public policies and
national development plans and programmes

Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Ageing:

Empowering Older Persons in ASEAN
Strengthen capacities for coordination by government agencies,
corporate bodies, civil society organisations, communities and
relevant stakeholder
Encourage the development of older peoples associations or other
forms of networking
Assign the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Social Welfare and
Development (AMMSWD) to coordinate inter-sectoral cooperation on
the empowerment of older persons and to develop a regional action
plan on ageing to implement this Declaration

Challenges
Limited window of opportunity to prepare
for rapid ageing

Resources
Social security system policy, coverage,
financing and scaling up challenges
(including migrant workers)
Health and palliative care infrastructure for
the rising older-old population

Challenges
Length of participation in the labour market
(labour laws, gender issues
Investment in age-friendly environment
(infrastructure)
Adequate coverage and benefit levels for
social pension to address old-age income
poverty

Thank You

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