Japan - Population ages 65 and above, total

The value for Population ages 65 and above, total in Japan was 35,734,000 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 35,734,000 in 2020 and a minimum value of 5,239,482 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 5,239,482
1961 5,388,526
1962 5,540,948
1963 5,701,675
1964 5,867,805
1965 6,040,718
1966 6,235,347
1967 6,444,761
1968 6,664,693
1969 6,888,929
1970 7,109,343
1971 7,446,472
1972 7,719,659
1973 7,995,299
1974 8,282,501
1975 8,592,965
1976 8,931,662
1977 9,299,260
1978 9,684,812
1979 10,060,400
1980 10,412,460
1981 10,790,340
1982 11,133,610
1983 11,468,580
1984 11,822,740
1985 12,217,580
1986 12,632,020
1987 13,078,740
1988 13,561,130
1989 14,088,050
1990 14,654,900
1991 15,257,250
1992 15,898,950
1993 16,566,580
1994 17,249,120
1995 17,939,000
1996 18,652,250
1997 19,374,030
1998 20,107,550
1999 20,825,750
2000 21,543,580
2001 22,260,300
2002 22,978,950
2003 23,703,100
2004 24,399,200
2005 25,110,400
2006 25,797,980
2007 26,493,150
2008 27,195,330
2009 27,951,520
2010 28,813,280
2011 29,603,890
2012 30,475,170
2013 31,384,100
2014 32,264,100
2015 33,081,240
2016 33,770,150
2017 34,370,970
2018 34,892,130
2019 35,356,770
2020 35,734,000

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population