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The World’s Ageing Populations
Share of the population aged 65 and over, %
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where a new leader takes first place.
Mid-year population, UN World Population Prospects estimates. The share is a Palanor calculation: the UN’s five-year age groups from 65 up, over the total.
How old each society is, measured by the share of people aged 65 or more. Japan and southern Europe lead; China is ageing fast from a lower base, while India and Nigeria are still young.
What this chart reads·14 series
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- Population Aged 65 and Over: Japanas “Japan”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- Population Aged 65 and Over: Italyas “Italy”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- Population Aged 65 and Over: Germanyas “Germany”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- Population Aged 65 and Over: Franceas “France”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- Population Aged 65 and Over: Spainas “Spain”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- Population Aged 65 and Over: United Kingdomas “United Kingdom”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- Population Aged 65 and Over: South Koreaas “South Korea”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- Population Aged 65 and Over: United Statesas “United States”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- Population Aged 65 and Over: Russiaas “Russia”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- Population Aged 65 and Over: Chinaas “China”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- World Population Aged 65 and Overas “World”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- Population Aged 65 and Over: Brazilas “Brazil”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- Population Aged 65 and Over: Indiaas “India”behindlatest 2023-07-01
- Population Aged 65 and Over: Nigeriaas “Nigeria”behindlatest 2023-07-01
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Population Aged 65 and Over: Japan. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Population Aged 65 and Over: Italy. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Population Aged 65 and Over: Germany. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Population Aged 65 and Over: France. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Population Aged 65 and Over: Spain. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Population Aged 65 and Over: United Kingdom. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Population Aged 65 and Over: South Korea. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Population Aged 65 and Over: United States. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Population Aged 65 and Over: Russia. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Population Aged 65 and Over: China. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
World Population Aged 65 and Over. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Population Aged 65 and Over: Brazil. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Population Aged 65 and Over: India. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Population Aged 65 and Over: Nigeria. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition. https://population.un.org/wpp/ Licence: © 2024 by United Nations, made available under a Creative Commons license CC BY 3.0 IGO (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/). Palanor's copy is unchanged except where this section says otherwise. Palanor adds the UN's five-year age groups from 65–69 up to 100+ and divides by the total population of the same year; that sum is the only change. The UN revises the whole series every two years; the next revision replaces these figures back to 1950.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.