As will be explained in the following chapters, these changes entail major implications in terms of the care economy, female labour-force participation and family dependency ratios. According to projections made using data from the National Transfer Accounts project, Cuba has already been an aged economy for several years (see table II.3 and box H.3). Within 15 years after that, another seven countries are expected to pass this threshold, and within one generation aged economies will be the dominant economic form in Latin America, as well as in most of the world.