Another possible economic solution for the stagnating population is limiting disability. Different from pensions, health spending doesn’t necessarily increase with the extension of life. In reality it depends on whether or not morbidity and mortality decline at the same time. Healthier people need less medical attention so the raise in costs will be muted. There will be a stronger demand for life-extending technologies leading to pressure to support these interventions financially at the expense of lower morbidity; this is defined as disability spending. Despite the declining rates of disability among the elderly, projections show that ageing results in increased spending on disability in the industrialized world. In less developed countries,