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Elders in numbers
- of people are 65 or older
- 22.2%
- people aged 65 or older
- 410.1K
- will be 65 or older in 2050
- 29%
- is how long people live after 60, on average
- 20.8 years
- of people 65+ live alone
- 35.4%
- women 40.3%, men 26.1%
- of people 65+ live in collective quarters: care homes, hospitals, hostels and the like
- 1.7%
Sources: World Bank, 2025; World Bank projection for 2050; WHO, 2023; UN, 2021; UN, 2011 census
Languages
14 languages, 4 of them endangered
- ErzyaDefinitely endangered
- Baltic RomaniVulnerable
- BelarusianVulnerable
- LatvianVulnerable
- Balkan Romani
- Carpathian Romani
- Eastern Yiddish
- Estonian
- Latvian Sign Language
- Lithuanian
- Russian
- Serbisk
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- Tatar
- Vlax Romani
Languages and their status: Glottolog v5.3, CC BY 4.0. Names: Wikidata.
UNESCO intangible heritage
List and years: ich.unesco.org
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