In recent times in the Dominican Republic, it has been shown that our youth population is going down and the population of elderly is rising, there is no evidence the reason for this phenomenon, but if it has detected the increase of elderly in the country.
The elderly population in the country increased by 10.9% and the trend for 2025 is that the increase is closer to 17%.
According to the National Population and Family, Dominican Republic has 9.5 million inhabitants. The aging is attributed to a rapid reduction in mortality levels decades.
The data is contained in the bulletin "statistical overview" of the National Statistics Office (NSO) says that the country is in a stage of full demographic transition.
The growth has a higher incidence among women, which is attributed to male mortality at older ages.
There is a difference in the geographic distribution of the elderly population. So while most provinces have between 16 and 23% of households aged, the provinces of Santo Domingo, La Altagracia, Samana, La Romana, San Pedro de Macoris, San Cristobal and Pedernales The figures under nursing homes and are those with high percentages of urban population. Of the 9,523,209 people who have the country in 2008, 4.7 million are male and 4.7 female.
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