16th Annual AARP - United Nations Briefing Series on Global Aging
A side event luncheon at the 54th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission March 1, 2023
The 54th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission took place from 28 February to 3 March 2023 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Commission is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to statistics and serves as a key global platform for national statistical offices to engage with a wide range of stakeholders in a policy dialogue on relevant issues to statistics.
This year, the annual AARP-United Nations Briefing Series on Global Aging placed a spotlight on older persons and catalyzed political momentum to influence action and delivery, taking into account the recent findings of the Fourth Review and Appraisal of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing and to allow Member States, including members of the Titchfield Group, and other stakeholders the opportunity to further consider various proposals, options and potential means of implementation.
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Longevity literacy empowers individuals to live a healthy and sustainable life with dignity and purpose, while building resilience to address the challenges of an evolving world. Individuals need to focus on three core principles: quality of life, financial resilience and purpose. Haleh Nazeri, Platform Curator, Financial Services, World Economic Forum
The WHAM Report is a series of studies that make clear the benefits of better funding and research in women’s health. This is an economic issue that impacts us all.
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.
The report provides an overview of challenges with respect to data on older populations and includes a proposal to form a new city group, the Titchfield group on ageing-related statistics and age-disaggregated data, to address issues of conceptualization, methodology and instruments in the domains of ageing-related statistics and age-disaggregated data.
For more information, please contact: Erica Dhar, Director for Global Alliances, AARP: edhar@aarp.orgor Amal Abou Rafeh, Chief, Programme on Ageing, United Nations DESA: rafeh@un.org
