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At the beginning of 2014, 18.4% Lithuanian residents were aged 65 and older

Statistics Lithuania, Vilnius, 05.12.2014.Print version
Statistics Lithuania informs that an annual publication Elderly People in Lithuania has been released. Lithuania is experiencing population ageing: the number of elderly (aged 65 and older) people and the proportion thereof in the total population annually increases, while the total population decreases. At the beginning of 2014, Lithuania had 2943.5 thousand residents, out of whom 542.7 thousand, or 18.4%, were aged 65 and older.

Over the last ten years (2004–2013), the number of people aged 65 and older grew by 18.6 thousand (3.5%), the proportion thereof in the total population – by 3 percentage points, while the total population decreased by 455.5 thousand (13.4%).

 

The number of elderly women is almost twice as high as that of elderly men. At the beginning of 2014, there were 182.4 thousand (33.6%) men and 360.3 thousand (66.4%) women aged 65 and older in the country.

 

At the beginning of 2013, in the European Union, just as in Lithuania, 18.2% of residents were aged 65 and older. The proportions were the highest in Italy (21.2%), Germany (20.7%), Greece (20.1%), and Portugal (19.4%), the smallest – in Ireland (12.2%), Slovakia (13.1%), and Cyprus (13.2%).

 

It is projected that at the beginning of 2050 Lithuania will have around two million (1 million 910 thousand) residents, out of whom more than half a million (544.5 thousand), or 28.5% of the total population, will be elderly people.


We invite you to read the publication free of charge on the Official Statistics Portal or purchase it in the library-bookshop of Statistics Lithuania (price – LTL 24.50 or EUR 7.10).






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