Ageing populations pose a major challenge for long-term sustainability of public finances. The respond has been a wave of pension reforms that has lowered markedly the projected pension expenditure in EU countries. The increase in the second major expenditure item, health and long-term care...

The paper analyses the marked changes experienced by the Brazilian population throughout the end of the XXth century. It also presents two sets of population projections for the quinquenium comprised between 2000 and 2020. They are disaggregated by sex, age groups and place of residence (rural...

This paper gives a demographic approach to the matter of the Brazilian demographic ageing. It discusses the relationship between ageing and dependence. It also tries to evaluate if to be elderly today, 1998, it is different of being elderly in the recent paste, 1981. The data utilized are from...