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America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
World Is Aging Faster Than the United States
The world is getting older, faster than ever before. So is the United States, whose share of population age 65 and over is projected to jump from 18.9% in 2025 to 23.4% by 2060, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report.
An Aging World: 2025 shows that despite continued growth of its older population, the nation will still be younger than nearly half the world’s countries by 2060.
“In 2025, the United States ranked as the 48th oldest country out of 227,” said Maria Aysa Lastra, a senior demographer at the Census Bureau. “By 2060, the country will fall to 110th place because countries in other regions are aging much more rapidly.”
By 2025, for the first time in human history, the share of adults age 65 and over outnumbered the share of children ages 0 to 5 in the world’s population – a gap projected to increase in the coming years.
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