REGIONAL ASPECT OF PREDICTED GLOBAL CHANGES IN THE AGE STRUCTURE
The article highlights six politically characteristic regions, for which the forecasted dynamics of the total population and population in able-bodied age is considered. The post-socialist countries experienced the peak in the proportion of the able-bodied population in the mid-2000s, and the countries of the Asian region in 2010. In Latin America, the peak of the working-age population according to the average forecast of the United Nations will be in 2019 and will further rapidly decline. The only region that is characterized by an improvement in the situation related to the demographic burden is the countries of Africa where the proportion of the able-bodied population at the moment is exceptionally low at the expense of numerous cohorts under working age and will grow in the coming decades