BRAZIL country’s total population (2013) 1 200,362,000 seventy eight WOMEN, 60+ MEN, 60+ percentage (%) currently married 1 forty one 2050 2012 number of older adults aged 60+ 2 21.6 million Photo credit: Chico Santiago Photo credit: Adam Jones, Ph.D. | Global Photo Archives “The situation has changed for older people in my country since the Law for the Rights of Older People (Estatuto do Idoso) was approved [in 2003]. Even after the Policy for Older People was adopted, older people abandoned their sandals and their rocking chairs and started having a life.” –Maria Gabriela, 90, Brazil 2 The number of seniors per 100 working-age people in Brazil are projected to more than triple from 2010 to 2050. 3 —Pew Research Centre percentage (%) of total population aged 60+2 10.9 29.0 64.6 million IN 2012 men 71 women 77 1 (2010–2015) AT AGE 60 AT BIRTH LIFE EXPECTANCY IN 2050 men 20 women 23 Poster prepared by: ALETHEIA PETERS BAJOTTO, Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul/UFRGS Brazil – PhD student, Visiting Researcher at Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba; BARBARA BORGES, University of Manitoba - Faculty of Education, PhD student, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB R3T 2N2 Poster template design: Rachel Ines, Centre on Aging, University of Manitoba References Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (2013). Profiles of Ageing 2013. www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/dataset/urban/profilesOfAgeing2013.shtml 2 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) & HelpAge International. (2012). Ageing in the Twenty-First Century: A Celebration and A Challenge. New York, USA; London, UK. 3 Pew Research Centre. (2014). Attitudes About Aging: A Global Perspective. USA 1 United Photo credits Chico Santiago, Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0) Photo credit: Adam Jones, Ph.D. | Global Photo Archives, Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 South America globe: GraphicStock.com