Does Population Aging Impact China's Economic Growth?

The rapid aging of the population presents great challenges in terms of China's social security expenditure and economic growth. This paper uses the entropy method to comprehensively measure the provincial population aging index in 2008-2019 and constructs an intermediary effect model with it a...

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Published inInternational journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 19; no. 19; p. 12171
Main Authors Chen, Qiuxing, Chi, Qiaozhu, Chen, Yang, Lyulyov, Oleksii, Pimonenko, Tetyana
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 26.09.2022
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Subjects
Age
Aging
China - epidemiology
Consumption
Disposable income
Economic Development
Economic growth
Endowment
Expenditures
Health Expenditures
Hypotheses
Impact analysis
Insurance, Health
Labor force
Labor supply
Life expectancy
Literature reviews
Older people
Pension funds
Population
Social security
China
endowment insurance expenditure
medical and health care expenditure
population aging
economic growth
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Summary:The rapid aging of the population presents great challenges in terms of China's social security expenditure and economic growth. This paper uses the entropy method to comprehensively measure the provincial population aging index in 2008-2019 and constructs an intermediary effect model with it as the core explanatory variable. The results show that the population aging has a significant positive impact on economic growth and on the promotion of the economic growth of more developed areas; it also has a positive impact on the endowment insurance expenditure and medical and health expenditure and on the promotion of economically backward areas. Endowment spending and health spending fully mediate the relationship between population aging and economic growth.
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ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph191912171