Britain's aging population

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Britain’s aging population

Countries with aging populations have higher death rates. This is the case in the UK as death rates are particularly high in some of the popular retirement resorts along the south coast e.g. Brighton and Dorset. Although such services as the NHS work well in Great Britain and good doctors and medicine are keeping the elderly healthy until a much older age, this means that as the retirement age remains at sixty and people are beginning to live for longer. This is increasing the ratio of the number of people of working age (15-60\4 years) to support each person of sixty and over. As figure 3A and figure 3B show the UK to have the highest ratio against other high ratioed countries such as France.

        

The figures show a forecast for the years to come, increasing by twenty years each time. Nearly all the way through the UK is shown to be the highest; this is due to the baby boom of the fifties and sixties.

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The official years of the Baby Boom Generation (1946 through 1964) saw a marked increase in the number of births in the world. Here’s how the birth rate rose and fell during the baby boom years in America:

1940 - 2,559,000 births per year
1946 - 3,311,000 births per year
1955 - 4,097,000 births per year
1957 - 4,300,000 births per year
1964 - 4,027,000 births per year
1974 - 3,160,000 births per year

There have even been books made about the baby boom:

Here are some recent statistics of some countries showing their population in numbers and ...

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A lot of data and some interpretation of this data. This answer would benefit from careful choice of figures and deeper analysis of these figures. 3 stars