warned the authors of a new report yesterday. Here is what the Island can expect over the next 24 years:

- Bermuda?s population to increase from 62,000 to 65,000

- The proportion of seniors to double from 11 percent of the population to 22 percent. Seven percent more seniors will be aged over 75

- There will be 36 dependant seniors for every 100 people of working age in 2030, compared to just 16 in 2000

- The proportion of people aged under 14 will drop by three percent, with 22-44 year olds declining by eight percent.

To remain constant at 37,000, but the mid-point age to climb from 36 years to 44

- The percentage of under 14?s to fall from 32 percent to 24 percent

- The proportion of seniors to climb from 11 percent to 25 percent

- The old-age dependency ratio - the number of seniors compared to those of working age - to rocket from 16 percent to 43 percent

To rise from 25,000 to 29,000

- The number of under 14?s to fall from 16 percent to 15 percent

- The proportion of seniors to rise from 11 percent to 19 percent of the population

- The old-age dependency ratio to advance from 15 percent to 28 percent

- To increase from 49,000 to 51,000

- The proportion of under-14s to drop from 20 percent to 16 percent

- The proportion of seniors to double from 13 percent to 26 percent

- The old age dependency ratio to soar from 19 percent to 45 percent

To increase from 13,000 to 14,000

- The old-age dependency ratio to triple from four percent to 12 percent