DEMOGRAFIC AGING IN FRANCE AND ROMANIA. A COMPARATIVE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
DEMOGRAFIC AGING IN FRANCE AND ROMANIA. A COMPARATIVE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Summary/Abstract: Demographic aging is a problem found in all developed countries, especially in the European states, with social and economic consequences that are already taking place. Demographic aging means the change of the population structure according to age, in favour of older ages (65 years and more) as a share of the total population, to the detriment of young ages, as a long-term trend. Sociologists and demographers who have studied this phenomenon believe that the demographic aging process begins when the proportion of the elderly exceeds 12% of the total population. France has been facing this demographic phenomenon for several decades. Romania is also experiencing the aging process of population, and the main causes are the decline in birth rate and the external migration. This alarming phenomenon, through its long-term consequences, concerns the policymakers of the EU member states which, based on multidisciplinary analyses, have developed a number of public policies regarding the population which rather address the socio-economic consequences. This paper represents a statistical analysis of the demographic aging process both in France and Romania based on three main dimensions: the aging of the total population, the aging of the labour force and the aging of the elderly people. The analysis will concern the statistical and demographic indicators describing the population aging phenomenon (the young population percentage, the share of the economically active population, the share of the elderly population, the demographic aging index, the demographic dependency ratio, the population’s average age and median age), based on a comparative approach between France and Romania, in the European context.

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