Janina Christye

World Population Ageing 2024. World population ageing 2023 examines the potential of least developed countries (ldcs) to benefit from a demographic dividend as they are. By 2050, the world’s population of people aged 60 years and older will double (2.1 billion).

This chart shows the countries/territories with the highest share of people aged 65 and older in 2024 and 2050. This box analyses the projections produced over the last 15 years for costs in euro area countries related to the ageing population, using new evidence from the recently.