Cabinet to propose adopting of comprehensive policy on Human Development

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The cabinet discussed Monday draft resolution on adopting State Comprehensive Policy on Population Development, and resolved to submit it to parliament. As of 2014, people aged 0-14 make up 28.1 percent of total population of Mongolia, aged 15-59 cover 65.7 percent, and 6.2 percent is made up by people aged above 60. It is a perspective that activity rate in the population will be high in the next decade. However, it is also expected that the portion of women of reproductive age is to decrease over the years, and will result in increase of portion of above 60-year-old people in the population threefold. The State Comprehensive Policy has an aim at ensuring sustainability in population growth, facilitating the population with favorable environment to live creatively and to develop, and to improve the quality of families’ lives. The document, by creating conditions that encourage birth, is expected to help stabilize the population growth, maintain long-term favorable age distribution, efficiently prepare a rapid aging of population. The document also issues of creating favorable conditions for people for living in their own hometowns and of regional development, in order to reduce migration, caused by lack of jobs and socio-cultural services.