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Population Aged 65 and Over, 2020

2020, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Population Aged 65 and Over, 2020 covers 222 countries. Vatican City is highest, at 45.83333; Qatar is lowest, at 1.24769. The middle country reads 7.56450. Against 2019, 222 values changed (205 up, 17 down), the same countries are covered.

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Population Aged 65 and Over · Data for 2020

HighestVatican City

45.83333

LowestQatar

1.24769

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe45.83333
MonacoMCOWestern Europe36.46338
JapanJPNEastern Asia28.91817
ItalyITASouthern Europe23.37923
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe22.86270
FinlandFINNorthern Europe22.49068
Puerto RicoPRICaribbean22.45384
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe22.39343
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe21.85729
GermanyDEUWestern Europe21.84473
BulgariaBGREastern Europe21.68679
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe21.66618
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe21.57088
United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean21.19170
FranceFRAWestern Europe20.74744
LatviaLVANorthern Europe20.67217
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe20.29397
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe20.24272
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe20.20009
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe20.12139
HungaryHUNEastern Europe20.09067
SwedenSWENorthern Europe20.05999
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe20.00081
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe19.94909
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe19.93415

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Vatican City45.83333
  2. Monaco36.46338
  3. Japan28.91817
  4. Italy23.37923
  5. Portugal22.86270

Lowest

  1. Qatar1.24769
  2. United Arab Emirates1.56409
  3. Zambia1.80828
  4. Chad2.04773
  5. Uganda2.06186

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 7.56450. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 205 · 17rose · 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 2020.

  • 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 (2020). Population Aged 65 and Over, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-65-plus/2020

0674 held

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07Questions

Population Aged 65 and Over, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population aged 65 and over in Population Aged 65 and Over, 2020?

Vatican City, at 45.83333, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Population Aged 65 and Over, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Population Aged 65 and Over, 2020 cover?

222.

Where can I download Population Aged 65 and Over, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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