18th Annual AARP - United Nations Briefing Series

Aging, Older Women and Development Financing

18th Annual AARP-United Nations Briefing Series: Population Aging, Older Women and Development Finance

Date	5/28/2025
Time	1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location	United Nations Headquarters, NY

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AARP and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Programme on Ageing will host the 18^th annual Briefing Series entitled Population Aging, Older Women and Development Finance. This year, the event will focus on how the global financial architecture for development should respond to the global megatrend of population aging.

The Global Longevity Economy® Outlook

The Global Longevity Economy® Outlook builds on AARP’s existing longevity economy work by estimating the 50-plus population’s consumption spending and the resulting impact on GDP, employment, and labor income from 2020 to 2050. This study examines 76 economies which span six continents and collectively account for 79% of the world’s population and 95% of global GDP. In addition to economic impact estimates for each individual economy, our analysis produces global estimates for the 50-plus population’s contribution to economic activity.

Aging Readiness & Competitiveness (ARC) 4.0

LMICs are not alone in facing the persistent and unfair differences experienced by older adults often based on gender, ethnicity, ability, geography, and socio-economic status. These inequalities are a risk to all our countries. However, the greater risk is inaction.

Facilitating equity in healthy aging is possible when we come together as a global community. AARP's Aging Readiness & Competitiveness (ARC) 4.0 report, with data and analysis by Economist Impact, highlights a knowledge base of real-world solutions.
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McKinsey Health Institute - Adding years to life and life to years

The McKinsey Health Institute (MHI) is an enduring, non-profit-generating entity within the firm. It was founded on the conviction that, over the next decade, humanity could add as much as 45 billion extra years of higher-quality life (roughly six years per person on average—and substantially more in some countries and populations). MHI’s mission is to catalyze the actions needed across continents, sectors, and communities to realize this possibility. Read more >>

Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index 2023

The Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index benchmarks 47 retirement income systems around the world, highlighting challenges and opportunities within each. Botswana, Croatia and Kazakhstan were added to the mix this year. We also used updated data from the OECD and added some new questions to the integrity sub-index. The Index is made up of three sub-indices, including adequacy, sustainability and integrity, to measure each retirement income system against more than 50 indicators.
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