Possible consequences of increasing life expectancy in Brazil: the perspective of a European historical demographer Possíveis conseqüências da crescente longevidade no Brasil: perspectiva de um demógrafo
Those over sixty years of age accounted for 6.6% of the total population of Brazil in 1985, in the Federal Republic of Germany this proportion was 20.3% in 1984. As early as 1950 it had been 14.5%. This proportion will not even be reached in Brazil in the year 2000 when persons aged sixty years and...
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Universidade de São Paulo
1987-10-01
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| Series: | Revista de Saúde Pública |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89101987000500010 |