Population ageing: demographic security threat or silver industry development potential

The authors grasped the crucial points of such demographic phenomenon as population ageing and defined the most important consequences for the economy of the country on the increase in the proportion of older persons. On the one hand, population ageing is noted as Russian demographic security threat. On the other hand, the international experience of the formation of the silver industry and focused on a certain category of older citizens economy are noticed. Prospects of development of the market of services for pensioners are estimated.