Mohsen Fatih, deputy head of the Center of Studies at the Faculty of Medicine of Tehran University, said that the Iranian people will be the most aging in the region in 20 years.
Speaking to the ISNA news agency, Fatih said statistics show that in 20 years Iran will have the most aging people in the region.
Fateh pointed out that they are carrying out activities that prevent the aging of Iranian society, and others that contribute to maintaining the elderly healthy lifestyle.
Addressing a symposium in Tehran on the occasion of International Day of Older Persons last month, Iranian sociologist Dr. Ali Reza Sharifi Yazdi said that women's greater involvement in social life, economic crises and early marriage has led to a decline in birth rates in Iran, and consequently a lower proportion of young people. Of the population.
Sociologist Shahla Kazempour said in a speech at the symposium that those under the age of 15 accounted for 46%, while those over the age of 60 made up 3% of the total population following the Iranian revolution in 1979.
The percentage of children under the age of 15 fell to 23%, while the proportion of the elderly rose to 9%.
The proportion of the elderly in Iran will rise to 30% in the next 20-30 years, to be one in three elderly people, Kazempour said.