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Population Aged 65 and Over, 1960

1960, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The share of a country's population aged 65 and over is the most common single measure of how far a population has aged. It shapes the demand for pensions, health care and long-term care, and it rises almost everywhere as people live longer and have fewer children.

Population Aged 65 and Over, 1960 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 18.9357; Papua New Guinea is lowest, at 1.1135. The middle country reads 3.9731. Against 1959, 222 values changed (117 up, 105 down), the same countries are covered.

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Population Aged 65 and Over · Data for 1960

HighestMonaco

18.9357

LowestPapua New Guinea

1.1135

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, 1960, 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, 1960: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
MonacoMCOWestern Europe18.9357
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe17.6220
AustriaAUTWestern Europe12.2197
BelgiumBELWestern Europe11.9883
SwedenSWENorthern Europe11.7495
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11.6955
FranceFRAWestern Europe11.5125
GermanyDEUWestern Europe11.4755
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe11.2126
NorwayNORNorthern Europe11.0289
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe10.7094
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe10.6143
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe10.5901
LatviaLVANorthern Europe10.5871
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe10.2251
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe10.0920
ItalyITASouthern Europe9.5050
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe9.3812
HungaryHUNEastern Europe9.0371
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe9.0003
United StatesUSANorthern America8.8314
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand8.6791
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand8.5253
MontserratMSRCaribbean8.4092
GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe8.3681

02In 1960

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Monaco18.9357
  2. Isle of Man17.6220
  3. Austria12.2197
  4. Belgium11.9883
  5. Sweden11.7495

Lowest

  1. Papua New Guinea1.1135
  2. Niger1.1187
  3. Guam1.5505
  4. Greenland2.0278
  5. Uganda2.0728

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3.9731. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031959 → 1960

Since 1959

What changed between 1959 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 117 · 105rose · 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 1960.

  • 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 (1960). Population Aged 65 and Over, 1960 [data set], describing 1960. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-65-plus/1960

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