Afghanistan - Population ages 65 and above, female

The value for Population ages 65 and above, female in Afghanistan was 552,871 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 552,871 in 2020 and a minimum value of 115,755 in 1960.

Definition: Female 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.

See also:

Year Value
1960 115,755
1961 118,864
1962 121,786
1963 124,431
1964 126,641
1965 128,377
1966 132,213
1967 135,626
1968 138,675
1969 141,480
1970 144,088
1971 148,919
1972 153,483
1973 157,598
1974 161,080
1975 163,813
1976 167,877
1977 170,596
1978 171,551
1979 170,321
1980 166,799
1981 165,587
1982 161,525
1983 155,152
1984 147,157
1985 137,892
1986 137,794
1987 138,093
1988 139,245
1989 141,610
1990 145,043
1991 155,204
1992 169,016
1993 185,036
1994 201,468
1995 217,292
1996 226,575
1997 232,512
1998 236,654
1999 240,979
2000 246,717
2001 254,716
2002 264,833
2003 276,150
2004 287,338
2005 297,667
2006 309,845
2007 320,362
2008 330,587
2009 342,521
2010 357,421
2011 374,724
2012 395,096
2013 417,170
2014 438,835
2015 458,824
2016 479,389
2017 497,970
2018 515,553
2019 533,560
2020 552,871

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Relevance to gender indicator: Knowing how many girls, adolescents and women there are in a population helps a country in determining its provision of services.

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population