The Algerian society is ageing: UN report

A survey recently released by the United Nations Population Fund has revealed that the Algerian population will reach the threshold of 49.6 million during the next 40 years in comparison to 35.4 million in 2010.

• Algeria will have to create 13 million additional jobs by this date while the rate of population over 70 is due to register a big leap passing from the current 04% of the overall population to 14%, the same survey added.
• By contrast, the population growth will decrease by 62% on the eve of the year 2005 while the tendency in North Africa and the Middle East region has witnessed a quantum leap over the period 1970-2010, according to the report.
• The Fund’s Director General François Fareh has hinted to the demographic change that will radically transform the social and economic structure of the Arab zone during coming four decades. This new reality will require supplementary efforts in terms of investments in various sectors of activities including, healthcare, education and employment.
• He went on saying that most of the Arab countries are ill-equipped to face this situation, which strangely echoes the one prevailing in western societies during the period 1945-1975, on account of the lack of experts in population planning.
• Most of the Arab families will content with two children at best owing to economic pressures and people will marry latter than their parents especially women  who will call for more responsibilities within their societies, the survey revealed.