Abstract
Demographic aging has been one of the most discussed population development processes in recent decades. The complexity of changes in reproductive behavior and their impacts on the age structure in combination with future population development are often the source of concern about the stability of individual socio-economic systems (eg the pension system, the health care system, the labor market, etc.).
This one-sided view is often supported by the use and development of standard indicators of demographic aging and its comparison in time, space and between populations is at least problematic in context of significant changes in mortality and health. In addition, the process of population aging is traditionally analyzed mainly at national level, and regional differentiation and specificities are overlooked.
Through new approaches to analyzing demographic aging processes based on the concept of prospective age, which takes into account changes in life expectancy over time and thus better capture the reality of demographic aging, we try to point out the main spatial patterns of regional differentiation of aging in Europe (NUTS2).