Korea - Population ages 65 and above, total

The value for Population ages 65 and above, total in Korea was 8,185,412 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 8,185,412 in 2020 and a minimum value of 842,033 in 1960.

Definition: Total population 65 years of age or older. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

Source: World Bank staff estimates using the World Bank's total population and age/sex distributions of the United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision.

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Year Value
1960 842,033
1961 874,284
1962 909,252
1963 944,202
1964 973,383
1965 995,552
1966 1,024,094
1967 1,044,127
1968 1,061,646
1969 1,082,298
1970 1,108,752
1971 1,151,217
1972 1,196,296
1973 1,242,018
1974 1,286,747
1975 1,330,074
1976 1,378,408
1977 1,427,987
1978 1,477,405
1979 1,524,784
1980 1,569,815
1981 1,626,032
1982 1,675,941
1983 1,723,392
1984 1,773,013
1985 1,828,690
1986 1,899,996
1987 1,984,324
1988 2,075,833
1989 2,164,167
1990 2,243,354
1991 2,338,621
1992 2,422,319
1993 2,501,350
1994 2,589,800
1995 2,695,680
1996 2,805,244
1997 2,933,526
1998 3,071,582
1999 3,219,142
2000 3,378,095
2001 3,558,254
2002 3,739,192
2003 3,922,107
2004 4,101,022
2005 4,270,694
2006 4,467,162
2007 4,659,281
2008 4,867,075
2009 5,075,088
2010 5,298,977
2011 5,543,633
2012 5,787,363
2013 6,032,959
2014 6,293,990
2015 6,560,196
2016 6,831,400
2017 7,114,779
2018 7,437,820
2019 7,795,874
2020 8,185,412

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population