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The world if older and older. Not the planet, but the people who live in it. A new report the global populaion of older people is growing at its fastest rate ever. The United States Census Bureau calculated there were over half a billion over-65s in 2008. Officials predict this number will more than to 1.3 billion by 2040. Around 14 per cent of the world's population will be retirement age. Researchers say the number of elderly will soon the young for the first time in human history. This will have a big on our societies, economy, and the way we live. An older population will up pension and healthcare costs. The will have to pay much higher taxes to look after more old people. America's National Institute of Ageing reports: "Ageing is every country in every part of the world... Global ageing is changing the social and economic of the planet and presenting difficult challenges." Japan is already with these problems and they are expected to get worse. By 2040, experts one per cent of the Japanese population will be over 100 years old. There is a industry in Japan to cater for the aged. Engineers are developing robots to and clean up after the elderly. There are now robots companions on sale to keep old people . One positive effect of our ageing population is that we need to think again middle age and old age is. We now often a 60-year-old as being young.