United States - Population ages 65 and above, total

The value for Population ages 65 and above, total in United States was 55,131,700 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 55,131,700 in 2020 and a minimum value of 16,469,470 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 16,469,470
1961 16,882,490
1962 17,267,190
1963 17,639,130
1964 18,015,740
1965 18,381,970
1966 18,824,620
1967 19,265,650
1968 19,702,050
1969 20,139,470
1970 20,609,400
1971 21,179,310
1972 21,688,760
1973 22,176,540
1974 22,666,520
1975 23,174,880
1976 23,744,760
1977 24,337,110
1978 24,966,990
1979 25,628,460
1980 26,259,350
1981 26,815,020
1982 27,333,510
1983 27,835,130
1984 28,337,790
1985 28,864,150
1986 29,416,870
1987 29,949,300
1988 30,472,830
1989 30,983,700
1990 31,521,850
1991 32,055,870
1992 32,565,000
1993 33,016,330
1994 33,396,140
1995 33,717,480
1996 33,973,230
1997 34,207,020
1998 34,407,300
1999 34,600,180
2000 34,801,180
2001 35,090,880
2002 35,353,640
2003 35,618,520
2004 35,964,060
2005 36,383,150
2006 36,942,170
2007 37,569,160
2008 38,300,980
2009 39,152,170
2010 40,156,140
2011 41,285,630
2012 42,566,300
2013 43,948,280
2014 45,426,400
2015 46,965,440
2016 48,569,570
2017 50,131,770
2018 51,665,450
2019 53,220,990
2020 55,131,700

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population