Population age 65+, total · World

Published World Bank series · Population · SP.POP.65UP.TO

854.6 million people · 2025

Latest available observation in the connected snapshot. Annual statistics do not change every second. Source revisions and reporting delays can affect these figures.

Reported history

YearValueUnit
2025854.6million people
2024830.52million people
2023804.8million people
2022778.02million people
2021754.56million people
2020732.91million people
2019708.17million people
2018683.13million people
2017658.99million people
2016636.06million people
2015614.52million people
2014594.04million people

Source & interpretation

World Bank: original dataset and methodology ↗

Values are displayed in million people. Source totals are divided by 1000000.0 for this display. This page describes the world aggregate; it is not a national estimate.

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