The Aging Spine: China Facing Up to the Global Challenge

• DOI: 10.14444/8317
• Publication Date: 2022-10-12T03:00:17Z
• Authors: Jun Zou; Huilin Yang
• Keywords: Population Ageing; Global population; World population

The world is experiencing a shift in population distribution toward older ages, known as aging. Globally, there were 703 million persons aged 65 or over 2019.[1][1] This figure will be doubled, accounting for 1.5 billion of the world’s by 2050.[1][1] While aging started