Aging in China: Demographic alternatives

As a consequence of their rapid fertility declines and pronounced mortality improvements in recent years, many of the developing countries in Asia have become increasingly aware of a number of serious aging problems (Ogawa, 1988a). More importantly, primarily because the demographic transition in these Asian countries has been substantially shorter than in the developed countries (Leete, 1987) the process of population aging in the former has been and will be considerably faster than that observed in the latter. China provides a salient example of fast population aging among the developing countries in Asia.