Guyana
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Elders in numbers
- of people are 65 or older
- 7%
- people aged 65 or older
- 58.4K
- will be 65 or older in 2050
- 11.2%
- is how long people live after 60, on average
- 12.5 years
- of people 65+ live alone
- 17.8%
- women 18.9%, men 16.5%
Sources: World Bank, 2025; World Bank projection for 2050; WHO, 2023; UN, 2019
Languages
20 languages, 12 of them endangered
- AtoradaCritically endangered
- MapidianCritically endangered
- TarumaCritically endangered
- LokonoSeverely endangered
- CaribDefinitely endangered
- MacushiDefinitely endangered
- WaiwaiDefinitely endangered
- AkawaioVulnerable
- PatamonaVulnerable
- PemonVulnerable
- WapishanaVulnerable
- WaraoVulnerable
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- Caribbean Hindustani
- Dutch
- English
- Guyanese Creole
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Guyanese Sign Language
- South Rupununi Sign Language
Languages and their status: Glottolog v5.3, CC BY 4.0. Names: Wikidata.
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