Population ages 65 and above, female - Country Ranking - Africa
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: Thematic map, Time series comparison
| Rank | Country | Value | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Egypt | 3,005,600.00 | 2020 |
| 2 | Nigeria | 2,976,763.00 | 2020 |
| 3 | Ethiopia | 2,195,691.00 | 2020 |
| 4 | South Africa | 1,981,762.00 | 2020 |
| 5 | Algeria | 1,504,101.00 | 2020 |
| 6 | Morocco | 1,488,202.00 | 2020 |
| 7 | Dem. Rep. Congo | 1,477,949.00 | 2020 |
| 8 | Tanzania | 909,004.00 | 2020 |
| 9 | Sudan | 862,810.00 | 2020 |
| 10 | Kenya | 782,157.00 | 2020 |
| 11 | Tunisia | 577,398.00 | 2020 |
| 12 | Mozambique | 558,238.00 | 2020 |
| 13 | Uganda | 546,315.00 | 2020 |
| 14 | Ghana | 527,516.00 | 2020 |
| 15 | Madagascar | 465,806.00 | 2020 |
| 16 | Cameroon | 399,135.00 | 2020 |
| 17 | Angola | 399,128.00 | 2020 |
| 18 | Côte d'Ivoire | 360,156.00 | 2020 |
| 19 | Niger | 321,037.00 | 2020 |
| 20 | Burkina Faso | 305,457.00 | 2020 |
| 21 | Malawi | 303,690.00 | 2020 |
| 22 | Senegal | 303,514.00 | 2020 |
| 23 | Zimbabwe | 287,588.00 | 2020 |
| 24 | Mali | 281,001.00 | 2020 |
| 25 | Guinea | 241,372.00 | 2020 |
| 26 | Somalia | 239,401.00 | 2020 |
| 27 | Zambia | 238,545.00 | 2020 |
| 28 | Rwanda | 236,345.00 | 2020 |
| 29 | Benin | 226,631.00 | 2020 |
| 30 | Chad | 224,087.00 | 2020 |
| 31 | Libya | 170,584.00 | 2020 |
| 32 | Burundi | 157,463.00 | 2020 |
| 33 | Sierra Leone | 134,210.00 | 2020 |
| 34 | Togo | 130,550.00 | 2020 |
| 35 | Liberia | 93,139.00 | 2020 |
| 36 | Mauritius | 89,920.00 | 2020 |
| 37 | Congo | 86,872.00 | 2020 |
| 38 | Mauritania | 84,615.00 | 2020 |
| 39 | Central African Republic | 81,719.00 | 2020 |
| 40 | Eritrea | 71,536.00 | 2011 |
| 41 | Lesotho | 68,084.00 | 2020 |
| 42 | Botswana | 63,623.00 | 2020 |
| 43 | Namibia | 57,798.00 | 2020 |
| 44 | Gabon | 43,733.00 | 2020 |
| 45 | Guinea-Bissau | 34,961.00 | 2020 |
| 46 | The Gambia | 31,457.00 | 2020 |
| 47 | Eswatini | 29,642.00 | 2020 |
| 48 | Djibouti | 24,129.00 | 2020 |
| 49 | Equatorial Guinea | 17,429.00 | 2020 |
| 50 | Cabo Verde | 17,070.00 | 2020 |
| 51 | Comoros | 14,701.00 | 2020 |
| 52 | Seychelles | 4,505.00 | 2020 |
| 53 | São Tomé and Principe | 3,752.00 | 2020 |
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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.
