North America - Population ages 65 and above, total

The value for Population ages 65 and above, total in North America was 62,018,090 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 62,018,090 in 2020 and a minimum value of 17,848,240 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 17,848,240
1961 18,290,020
1962 18,701,770
1963 19,101,880
1964 19,509,030
1965 19,907,600
1966 20,383,570
1967 20,861,320
1968 21,335,760
1969 21,810,180
1970 22,320,080
1971 22,961,680
1972 23,510,120
1973 24,039,030
1974 24,578,170
1975 25,143,590
1976 25,779,640
1977 26,440,780
1978 27,138,950
1979 27,867,790
1980 28,570,660
1981 29,196,690
1982 29,781,800
1983 30,345,700
1984 30,914,860
1985 31,514,740
1986 32,141,010
1987 32,762,000
1988 33,378,360
1989 33,998,600
1990 34,637,800
1991 35,256,780
1992 35,844,950
1993 36,370,340
1994 36,824,520
1995 37,220,520
1996 37,549,030
1997 37,856,280
1998 38,125,500
1999 38,385,670
2000 38,656,830
2001 39,022,080
2002 39,357,540
2003 39,688,820
2004 40,108,580
2005 40,612,740
2006 41,263,930
2007 41,988,340
2008 42,833,210
2009 43,815,800
2010 44,969,080
2011 46,248,080
2012 47,705,360
2013 49,281,530
2014 50,962,920
2015 52,697,060
2016 54,511,390
2017 56,286,900
2018 58,052,510
2019 59,856,820
2020 62,018,090

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population