Tehran, YJC. The Majlis is preparing a draft through which it intends to increase the country’s population to avoid agedness in a couple of decades to come.
The Head of the Social Commission
of the Majlis in interview with Fars said that as according to common
scientific standards, once 7 percent of a country’s population live in ages
above 65 the country is considered to be heading toward agedness, Iran is going
to have an old population soon because currently 7 percent of its population are
at least 65 years old, "most of which are even above 75.”
Abdoreza Azizi maintained "The
proportion will reach 14 percent in 2026, to hit 22 percent in 2036. If it does
so then we will have an aged population.”
"We must be sensitive to
the issue and make plans for it. Of course we must make plans for all social
strata to increase the young human resources which contribute to the country’s
growth,” he asserted.
He further pointed out that
the Social Commission has laid programs for increasing the population and added
"Following the Supreme Leader’s guidelines on fighting generation withdrawal
and population decline, the Social Commission of the Majlis immediately
dissolved the Population and Family Planning Committee from the Social
Commission to form the Population and Family Support Committee in the
Commission.”