Moldova’s population will considerably grow older starting with 2014, when the number of children aged between 0 and 14 will be equal to the number of people aged 60 and over. Afterward, the number of children will decrease, while of people older than 60 will grow constantly until 2050. The projections were included in the program on the integration of ageing problems into polices, worked out by the  Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family, IPN reports.

The authors of the document said the young people of tomorrow, whose number is declining, will have not only to support the development of society, but to also maintain more elderly people. This fact will generate a significant pressure on public costs, which can make the expected economic growth impossible. The gender imbalance in the most vulnerable sections of the population, like the elderly people, will require increased effort for the specialization of social, medical and psychosocial services, especially for the female population that is larger in number.

The program also says that after 2015 the birth rate will fall. In 2020, the number of children under the age of one will be by 5,100 lower.

On January 1, Moldova had 527,600 people aged 60 and over.