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The Elderly in the Commonwealth Caribbean: A Review of Research Findings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2008

Farley Brathwaite
Farley Brathwaite
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Department of Sociology, University of the West Indies, Barbados.
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Ageing & Society , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 297 - 304
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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1 The case of Barbados demonstrates this point very clearly. Available data from: Reports on Vital Statistics and Registration in Barbados for the years 1940 and 1980, Government of Barbados, Bridgetown, Barbados; Massiah, Joycelyn, ‘The population of Barbados: demographic development and population policy in a small state, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados, 1981, table V: 13, p. 76Google Scholar; Binstock, R. et al. (ed.), International Perspectives on Ageing: Population and Policy Challenges, United Nations Fund for Population Activities, New York, 1982, p. 19Google Scholar. Ebanks, G., ‘Barbados’, in Segal, A. (ed.), Population Policies in the Caribbean, Lexington Books, 1975, pp. 35–36Google Scholar. These show that between 1940 and 1980, death rates in Barbados declined from 26.7 per thousand to 8.6 per thousand, that life expectancy over the period 1921–65 rose from 28.5 years for males and 32.9 years for females, to 65.5 years for males and 70.9 years for females respectively, and that fertility rates declined from 29.2 per thousand in 1940 to 16.4 per thousand in 1980. Finally, available migration statistics indicate that between 1951 and 1970 there was a net loss by way of migration of 32,600 persons, most of them young, from a population which was 193,680 in 1946 and 236,891 in 1970.

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