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The King retains the right to claim any unmarked mute swan on open water, mostly exercised on the Thames. (source)
Elders in numbers
- of people are 65 or older
- 19.7%
- people aged 65 or older
- 13.7M
- will be 65 or older in 2050
- 24.7%
- is how long people live after 60, on average
- 23.8 years
- of people 65+ live alone
- 31%
- women 38.8%, men 21.6%
- of people 65+ live in collective quarters: care homes, hospitals, hostels and the like
- 3.7%
Sources: World Bank, 2025; World Bank projection for 2050; WHO, 2023; UN, 2011; UN, 2011 census
Languages
13 languages, 6 of them endangered
- IrishDefinitely endangered
- Scottish GaelicDefinitely endangered
- British Sign LanguageVulnerable
- ScotsVulnerable
- Scottish CantVulnerable
- WelshVulnerable
- Angloromani
- Antiguan and Barbudan Creole
- Balkan Romani
- Carpathian Romani
- English
- Judeo-Iraqi Arabic
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- Serbisk
Languages and their status: Glottolog v5.3, CC BY 4.0. Names: Wikidata.
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