Territorial differentiation of Сhina’s demographic ageing in the 21st century

  • Ekaterina A. Antipova Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus
  • Li Chen Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Abstract

Based on official provincial demographic statistics 2000–2020 a comprehensive economic and geographical analysis of free and temporal trends in the distribution of the population of China aged 65 years and older at the mesogeographical level was carried out. Using the methods of content analysis, geographic systematisation, big data analysis, correlation and selective analysis, geographic search method, as well as the method, as well as the method of typographers, the specific characteristics of China’s population aging have been identified. For 2000–2020 China’s population doubled from 90.7 to 195.6 mln people. Chinese society aging share of the population account belonging to the population age group for 2000–2020 increased three times and amounted to 7.2 %. The scale of aging in China is structurally and infected. More than 50 % of the provinces have a high population of 65 years of age or older and above and above the middle-aged population (over 4 mln people). Geographical areas in the west of the country cover a significant proportion of the population and its distribution trends, the production zone and the center – a zone with a high prevalence of the population at the age of 65 and exceed its coverage trends. In all provinces of China, since 2010, the proportion of the population aged 65 years and older is 7 %. The dynamics of the elderly population is also structural and morbidity by province. Predominate in provinces with population growth aged 65 and over (85.3 %). The geographic zone in China represents a region of frontal aging of varying intensity, which defends most of the country’s territory, and a zone of decelerating aging in the south. Depending on the scale and prevalence of population aging in the country, three zones have been identified – a zone with a regulated level of problematicness, a zone with an average frequency of a problematic situation, and a zone with an increased tension of the situation – with a predominance of the provinces of the second (47 %).

Author Biographies

Ekaterina A. Antipova, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

doctor of science (geography), full professor; professor at the department of economic and social geography, faculty of geography and geoinformatics

Li Chen, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliezhnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

junior researcher at the department of economic and social geography, faculty of geography and geoinformatics

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Published
2023-05-23
Keywords: China, population ageing, territorial differentiation, types of provinces by the nature of the dynamics of the population aged 65 years and older, growth zones, provincial typographer by the intensity of ageing
Supporting Agencies The article was supported by the state programme of scientific research «Society and human security of the Belarusian state» for 2021–2025 (the subprogramme «Economics», task 3.04 «Scientific foundations for the development of human capital in the context of ensuring social, demographic, environmental and economic security in the Republic of Belarus») (state registration No. 20211948).
How to Cite
Antipova, E. A., & Chen, L. (2023). Territorial differentiation of Сhina’s demographic ageing in the 21st century. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Geography and Geology, 1, 3-18. Retrieved from https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/geography/article/view/5332
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No 1 (2023): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Geography and Geology
Section
Geography

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