据联合国的测算,到本世纪中期,中国将有近5亿人口超过60岁,而这个数字将超过美国人口总数。全国老龄办有一项统计数据,在目前的老年人口中,有近一半属于城乡空巢家庭或类空巢家庭。另有国家卫生和计划生育委员会发布的《中国家庭发展报告(2015)》指出,空巢老人占老年人总数的一半,已经突破1亿。其中,独居老人占老年人总数的近10%,仅与配偶居住的老人占老年人总数的41.9%。空巢老人正成为中国人口老龄化的一大社会问题。 According to the UN estimates, by the middle of this century, China will have nearly 500 million people over 60 years of age, and this figure will exceed the total population of the United States. The National Bureau of Aging has a statistical data. Among the current elderly population, nearly half belong to empty-nest families or empty-nest families in urban and rural areas. In addition, the “China Household Development Report (2015)” released by the National Health and Family Planning Commission points out that empty-nesters have already accounted for half of the total number of the elderly and have exceeded 100 million. Among them, the elderly living alone accounted for nearly 10% of the total number of the elderly, only the elderly living with their spouses accounted for 41.9% of the total number of the elderly. Empty nesters are becoming a major social problem in China’s aging population.