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Population Aged 65 and Over, 1959

1959, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Population Aged 65 and Over, 1959 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 18.56232; Niger is lowest, at 1.05877. The middle country reads 4.04139. Against 1958, 222 values changed (111 up, 111 down), the same countries are covered.

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Population Aged 65 and Over · Data for 1959

HighestMonaco

18.56232

LowestNiger

1.05877

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Population Aged 65 and Over, 1959, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Population Aged 65 and Over, 1959: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
MonacoMCOWestern Europe18.56232
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe17.04668
AustriaAUTWestern Europe12.05337
BelgiumBELWestern Europe11.87437
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11.62020
SwedenSWENorthern Europe11.55761
FranceFRAWestern Europe11.46970
GermanyDEUWestern Europe11.31670
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe11.13434
NorwayNORNorthern Europe10.82980
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe10.66888
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe10.58280
LatviaLVANorthern Europe10.55593
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe10.41491
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe10.23685
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe10.11786
ItalyITASouthern Europe9.35630
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe9.16528
HungaryHUNEastern Europe8.85923
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe8.85848
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand8.76291
United StatesUSANorthern America8.71617
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8.52944
Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean8.27217
GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe8.22644

02In 1959

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Monaco18.56232
  2. Isle of Man17.04668
  3. Austria12.05337
  4. Belgium11.87437
  5. United Kingdom11.62020

Lowest

  1. Niger1.05877
  2. Papua New Guinea1.11267
  3. Guam1.53007
  4. Greenland1.97706
  5. Uganda2.05545

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 4.04139. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031958 → 1959

Since 1958

What changed between 1958 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 111 · 111rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1959.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1959). Population Aged 65 and Over, 1959 [data set], describing 1959. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-65-plus/1959

0674 held

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07Questions

Population Aged 65 and Over, 1959: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population aged 65 and over in Population Aged 65 and Over, 1959?

Monaco, at 18.56232, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Population Aged 65 and Over, 1959 describe?

1959.

How many countries does Population Aged 65 and Over, 1959 cover?

222.

Where can I download Population Aged 65 and Over, 1959?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Population Aged 65 and Over, 1959 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Population Aged 65 and Over, 2023.

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