Ageing in Saudi Arabia: new dimensions and intervention strategies.

ABSTRACT: Ageing process of population passing through demographic dividend in many of the Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, where the demographic transition process entered a progressive stage. This process has been accelerated with rapid reductions in fertility caused by various changes in the socio-economic and life style dimensions. Researches on population ageing in the country are rare and thus this analytic research aims at exploring population ageing trends at the backdrop of demographic transition to help build up demanded strategies and policies. This analysis explains a rapid native population ageing especially on absolute size: an increase in line with theoretical demographic transition process. Consequently, structural changes in age distribution accompanied a change in age pyrami

SUBMITTER: Salam AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10006203 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature