Spatial disparities of population aging in Shenzhen: from China's Hukou perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

As China's youngest city with immigrants constituting 66% of its population, Shenzhen is paradoxically facing accelerated and compressed demographic aging. Although its overall aging rate remains below the international aging society threshold, the city confronts unique challenges as a migrant receiving metropolis without domestic precedents. Through a novel perspective of the Hukou system (i.e., the household registration system), this research reveals distinct spatial patterns of the older populations with different Hukou types. The findings aim to inform policy responses to Shenzhen's upcoming concentrated aging transitions.

Methods

This study integrates administrative-level statistical data with nighttime light data, spatially disaggregated to a 1*1 km grid res

SUBMITTER: Luo Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12358437 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature