South Africa - Population ages 65 and above, total

The value for Population ages 65 and above, total in South Africa was 3,267,576 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 3,267,576 in 2020 and a minimum value of 661,028 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 661,028
1961 679,491
1962 697,184
1963 713,939
1964 729,578
1965 744,054
1966 761,726
1967 777,971
1968 793,941
1969 810,979
1970 829,881
1971 856,173
1972 883,285
1973 910,496
1974 936,854
1975 961,970
1976 991,766
1977 1,019,800
1978 1,046,937
1979 1,074,127
1980 1,101,993
1981 1,138,884
1982 1,174,875
1983 1,209,545
1984 1,242,310
1985 1,272,912
1986 1,310,870
1987 1,347,011
1988 1,382,710
1989 1,419,784
1990 1,459,813
1991 1,515,728
1992 1,576,990
1993 1,642,904
1994 1,712,130
1995 1,783,952
1996 1,841,695
1997 1,894,149
1998 1,942,352
1999 1,987,535
2000 2,030,622
2001 2,075,416
2002 2,114,527
2003 2,149,113
2004 2,180,095
2005 2,208,177
2006 2,260,914
2007 2,310,112
2008 2,355,420
2009 2,396,379
2010 2,433,350
2011 2,496,022
2012 2,559,643
2013 2,626,977
2014 2,701,548
2015 2,785,620
2016 2,879,079
2017 2,975,441
2018 3,073,409
2019 3,171,080
2020 3,267,576

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Population