skip to main content
LOTERRE

LOTERRE

Search from vocabulary

Content language

| español français
Search help

Concept information

Preferred term

graying of population  

Definition(s)

  • The 1870 U.S. Census enumerated the elderly—people 65 years of age or older—at about 1.2 million people (3 percent of the total population of 40 million). However, during the 20th century, with industrialization and changes in fertility and mortality patterns, a new age structure emerged for the population of the United States. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Population, Graying of]

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-KVSSB1HJ-J

Download this concept: