Frontiers in Management Research

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DOI: 10.22606/fmr.2018.22003

• Yue Ruidong^*
  Department of Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510632, China

The aging of population is a hot issue of social concern in recent years. It not only plagues developed countries but also plagues developing countries. In the context of a significant change in China's population structure, studying the relationship between population aging and GDP is also a pressing matter. Therefore, this paper focuses on the correlation between the population aging and China's GDP and uses the data of per capita GDP, the dependency ratio of the elderly in 31 provinces and cities in China. Stata is used to estimate the impact of population aging on GDP in China. The result shows that dependency ratio has a positive effect on GDP, but when take into account the proportion of the elderly population, the result has become different. Finally, this paper gives some policy suggestions based on the above research results.

Population aging; GDP; dependency ratio

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