The global population is aging rapidly. Taiwan was classified as an aging society in 1993, and will be classified as an aged society by 2018. The major concern is the speed of aging. According to Ministry of Interior data, 10.63% of the total Taiwan population were older than sixty-five years in 2010, and the aging index was 65.05%. The population is aging faster than any country in the world due to the low birth rate, which was only 0.9 in 2010.