Open AccessIntroduction
Author(s) -
Luis Miguel Gutiérrez Robledo,
Alberto Palloni,
Martha María Téllez Rojo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
salud pública de méxico/salud pública de méxico
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.668
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1606-7916
pISSN - 0036-3634
DOI - 10.21149/spm.v57s1.7583
Subject(s) - latin americans , fertility , demography , pace , population , geography , total fertility rate , population ageing , developed country , socioeconomics , gerontology , medicine , research methodology , political science , economics , family planning , sociology , geodesy , law
The population of Mexico today has more adults aged 60 and older than children younger than five. Even so, the proportion of older adults as a share of the total population is significantly lower in Mexico than in high income countries. However, Mexico and other countries in the region of Latin America are ndergoing a period of accelerated aging that is partly due to the fast pace at which mortality rates dropped after 1930, and partly to the more-recent sudden drop in fertility rates. In the last 20 years, research on aging has accelerated as well and the scientific community has benefitted from having new sources of information and databases.