One likely reason for the lack of attention to the older population is that fertility in Cambodia has remained high and thus the share of the population who are age 60 and over is relatively small, especially compared to a number of other southeast Asian countries where population aging is far more rapid. According to the most recent UN assessment, only percent of the Cambodian population is aged 60 and over although it is projected to slowly increase in the coming decades (United Nations 2005). One unusual feature of today’s Cambodian older population is the large predominance of.
