“Aging” Tamaulipas
Posted on October 7th, 2009 in Health News
Tamaulipas adult population (aged 60 years or more) continues to grow and in the last four years has increased a little over 30 thousand people who entered the group called “third age”.
According to the National Population Council CONAPO today in the state 8.4 percent of its inhabitants are elderly, ie aged 60 years and older.
Between 2005 and 2009, the number of these increased from 233 thousand 176 a 267 mil 281 people. Which means a yearly average growth rate in that period of 3.47 per cent while the total state population grew at a rate of 1.27 percent.
The above are just some of the figures that discloses the INEGI to mark the international day for the adults and where data emerge as the fact that in Tamaulipas heart disease, diabetes mellitus, malignant tumors and diseases stroke are leading causes of death among this population group.
Tamaulipas age.
As a result of major demographic changes in Tamaulipas during the twentieth century, the age and sex structure of population is changing significantly, between them highlights the start of the aging process that is expressed as a relative and absolute increase the population at older ages.
In the period between 1990 and 2005, the population as a whole has grown at a rate of 1.80 percent annual average, the age group over 60 years and did a 3.10 per cent.
This growth rate led older adults to increase their presence in both absolute and relative terms: according to the institution in 1990 this group had 147 thousand 527 people, whereas by 2005 increased to 233 thousand 176, which means that the proportion of elderly increased from 6.3 to 7.7 percent in that period.
The data show that among older adults in Tamaulipas is common for the number of men is less than that of women, because in them the level of survival is greater.
By 2009, a total de122 estimated 588 thousand 144 thousand 693 men for women, which means a male-female ratio of 85 males per 100 females.
An i9nteresante fact is that until 2005, there are only six municipalities with a percentage level above the 16.5 percent of people aged 60 and over; in this group, with a population over 10 thousand inhabitants and the municipalities of Ocampo Llera of which about one-sixth are older, well above the state average of 8.1 percent.
Mortality in older adults.
In Tamaulipas, the leading causes of mortality in the older population are heart disease, diabetes mellitus, cancer and cerebrovascular ailments altogether they add up due to the 68.0 percent of all deaths.
By gender, 28 of every 100 men die from heart disease, followed with 17 malignant tumors and diabetes mellitus with a ratio of 15 per 100. In women, 26 of every 100 die from the first case, 20 diabetes mellitus, 16 from malignant neoplasms and cerebrovascular disorders 7.
Work and education.
The National Survey of Occupation and Employment reported for the second quarter of 2009 (until June) in Tamaulipas, 44 thousand 648 people illiterate aged 60 and over representing 14.4 percent of that age group.
Of the 44 thousand 648 thousand elderly illiterate, more than half (26 thousand 664) are women situation is explained in part by educational patterns that prevailed in the past.
Per state, the proportion of people aged 60 and over are illiterate presents considerable contrasts.
In Chihuahua, the rate of illiteracy among the older population is 7.1, the opposite side in Guerrero and Chiapas over the 45.0 percent who can not read or write, Tamaulipas instead took the tenth lowest nationally in reference to that percentage.
In regard to schooling, ie the number of grades passed within the national education system, we have that out of 100 people aged 60 and over, 19 were unable to join the school, 37 have incomplete primary education, 21 completed primary schooling, 12 have adopted a high school degree and 11 have at least one grade education in secondary and higher education.
And finally, The National Survey of Occupation and Employment reported in the second quarter of 2009 in the state, 92 thousand 192 people are economically active (PEA) of 60 years and older, or about 6.5 percent of the total.
EAP of this population, 87 thousand 180 are occupied, this amount represents 6.6 percent of total employed population in the state. Also, 70.1 of the employed population aged 60 and over are men, which shows the greatest participation of them in economic activities.
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• In Tamaulipas live 85 men per 100 women 60 years and over.
• 192 adults over 92 thousand make any economic activity.
• In 2005, registered in the state 779 thousand 846 homes, 183 thousand 82 of these live at least one person aged 60 and older.
• 19.1por percent of women aged 60 and over married or lived at least one incident of violence from their spouses during the past year.
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