Aging Demographic Data Sheet 2018

MEDIA

The first Aging Demographic Data Sheet that comprehensively presents new measures of aging, developed at IIASA, for all countries in the world and world regions, including projections for 2050, was presented at the high-level Gaidar Forum on 18 January 2018 in Moscow. In the dedicated session at the conference, keynote speaker Sergei Scherbov presented the methodological background of the applied alternative indicators of population ageing and the major results to journalists, scientists and policy makers from across Russia.

The session was moderated by Valeriy Yelizarov, Head, Centre for Population Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, and included a panel discussion about the data sheet results. Sergey Afanasyev, Deputy Chairman, Board, Pension Fund of the Russian Federation, Tatyana Klyachko, Director, Centre for Economics of Continuous Education, RANEPA, Anton Kotyakov, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, Tatiana Maleva, Director, Institute of Social Analysis and Forecast, RANEPA, and Alexander Surinov, Head, Federal State Statistics Service were among the discussants.