The reduction in fertility level , reinforced by steady increase in the life expectancy has produced fundamental changes in the age structure of the population , which in turn leads to the aging population. The analysis of historical patterns of mortality and fertility decline in india indicates that the process of population aging intensified only in the 1990”s.The older population of India, which has 56.7 million in 1991, is 72 million in 2001 and is expected to grow to 137 million by 2021.Today India is home to one out of every ten senior citizens of the world. Both the absolute and relative size of the population of the elderly in India will gain in strength in future.Among the total elderly population, those who live in rural areas constitute 78 percent.sex ratio in elderly population,which was 928 as compared to 927 in total population in the year 1996,is projected to become 1031 by the year 2016 as compared to 935 in total population. The data on old age dependency ratio is slowly increasing in both rural and urban areas. Both for men and women, this figure is quite higher in rural areas when compared with that of urban areas.More than half of the elderly populations were married and among those who were widowed, 64 percent were women as compared to 19 percent of men.
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