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Nowadays, the world is facing the old age crisis. "Due to the combined fluctuations in fertility, life expectancy at birth, and mortality, the average age of the world's population is expected to increase dramatically within the next forty years." (Shuman, 1984) Hong Kong, which is tiny city with about 7 million citizens, is also facing this worldwide problem. In 2006, Census and Statistics Department conducted the population by-census and made population projections for the next 30 years. The population is predicted to keep giving older and older. In 2006, the percentage of those who were 65 years old or above was 12%. The percentage is projected to increase by 14%. At the same time, the median of age would increase by 6.5 from 39.6 in 2006 to 46.1 in 2036 (Hong Kong Population Projections 2007-2036, 2007). The continuous aging trend makes the government concern and review the pension system. In the Chinese society, parents treat their children as the "pension". Even though Hong Kong was the colony of UK before 1st July, 1997, most of the families still live in a traditional Chinese style. In the older generation, families were keen on having more children. For instance, my grandparents have five children and totally rely on them after retirement. In 70s, the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong encouraged people to have two children only in each family in order to control the birth rate. As a result, there were only 4 members in most of the families in 80s & 90s. The mean of the number of children in each family was 2.6 in 1982. The mean keeps falling to 1.9 in 1997 and 1.6 in 2002.
Introduction
Nowadays, the world is facing the old age crisis. "Due to the combined fluctuations in fertility, life expectancy at birth, and mortality, the average age of the world's population is expected to increase dramatically within the next forty years." (Shuman, 1984) Hong Kong, which is tiny city with about 7 million citizens, is also facing this worldwide problem. In 2006, Census and Statistics Department conducted the population by-census and made population projections for the next 30 years. The population is predicted to keep giving older and older. In 2006, the percentage of those who were 65 years old or above was 12%. The percentage is projected to increase by 14%. At the same time, the median of age would increase by 6.5 from 39.6 in 2006 to 46.1 in 2036 (Hong Kong Population Projections 2007-2036, 2007). The continuous aging trend makes the government concern and review the pension system. In the Chinese society, parents treat their children as the "pension". Even though Hong Kong was the colony of UK before 1st July, 1997, most of the families still live in a traditional Chinese style. In the older generation, families were keen on having more children. For instance, my grandparents have five children and totally rely on them after retirement. In 70s, the Family Planning Association of Hong Kong encouraged people to have two children only in each family in order to control the birth rate. As a result, there were only 4 members in most of the families in 80s & 90s. The mean of the number of children in each family was 2.6 in 1982. The mean keeps falling to 1.9 in 1997 and 1.6 in 2002.
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