Europe’s Ageing Demography

An ILC-UK Population Patterns Seminar Series event, supported by Partnership

Communities and Housing, Future of Age, Health, International, Pensions

This event is kindly hosted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

Throughout 2014, ILC-UK, supported by specialist insurer, Partnership Assurance Group plc (Partnership), has been undertaking a series of events to explore the relationship between our changing demography and public policy.

This event, as part of the Population Patterns Seminar Series, will explore Europe’s ageing demography. Europe is currently facing unprecedented changes - by 2050 it is predicted that more than a third of the European population will be over 60 years old as a result of rising life expectancies and low birth rates.

These changes pose major economic, budgetary and social challenges. In the EU, age related spending is projected to rise from an annual cost of 25% to 29% of GDP between 2010 and 2060. At the same time, there are set to be far fewer people of working age to support European ageing populations- by 2060 the dependency ratio is predicted to drop to under two working-age people for every person aged over 65.

At this event we will seek to inform further this critical debate by launching our first ‘European Factpack’ of demographic statistics. This Factpack will provide statistics on a range of topics from life expectancy to housing supply, and pensions to the use of new technologies amongst today’s older generations. The ‘European Factpack’ builds on our UK Factpack initiative, by providing the public, private and third sectors with the most up-to-date information on Europe’s changing demography.

During the discussion we will explore:

• What are the ramifications of Europe’s changing demography, both for individual countries and Europe as a whole?
• What policy changes will need to be enacted to ensure Europe’s economic sustainability?
• How the public, private and third sectors react to findings of the ‘European Factpack’?
• Which areas of the Factpack might be expanded to help policy-makers, journalists and opinion formers?

A full agenda will be available closer to the event date.

How to attend

To book your place for this free event, please click here.

Please allow time to get through security and ensure you bring a form of photo identification with you on the day. You will not be permitted entry into the EESC buildings without this.

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