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Appendix 1
Number
(thousands)
aged 60+
Percentage of
total population
aged 60+
Number
(thousands)
aged 80+
Country or area* Notes 2012 2050 2012 2050 2012 2050
Colombia 4,364 14,668 9.2 23.7 549 3,151
Ecuador 1,398 4,624 9.4 23.7 204 971
French Guiana 18 80 7.5 15.8 2 16
Guyana 53 172 7.0 22.4 6 35
Paraguay 533 1,806 8.0 17.5 67 299
Peru 2,729 8,799 9.2 22.7 358 1,704
Suriname 51 146 9.6 23.8 6 28
Uruguay 628 1,003 18.5 27.4 129 246
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 2,731 9,316 9.1 22.3 321 1,826
Northern America 29 67,597 120,797 19.3 27.0 13,556 35,911
Canada 7,215 13,524 20.8 31.0 1,408 4,221
United States of America 60,361 107,239 19.1 26.6 12,146 31,681
Oceania 5,928 13,006 15.7 23.5 1,089 3,456
Australia/New Zealand 5,326 10,697 19.5 28.9 1,041 3,164
Australia 30 4,481 9,073 19.6 28.9 883 2,662
New Zealand 845 1,623 18.9 28.6 158 502
Melanesia 494 1,998 5.4 12.0 36 228
Fiji 74 206 8.4 20.2 5 36
New Caledonia 32 89 12.4 25.9 5 21
Papua New Guinea 345 1,499 4.8 11.1 23 149
Solomon Islands 29 139 5.1 12.0 2 14
Vanuatu 14 65 5.6 12.7 1 8
Micronesia 31 48 151 8.7 20.8 4 30
Guam 21 54 11.6 22.2 2 12
Micronesia (Fed. States of) 7 20 6.4 14.5 1 2
Polynesia 32 61 161 8.9 18.7 8 34
French Polynesia 28 88 10.0 26.5 3 18
Samoa 14 28 7.6 12.6 2 7
Tonga 8 18 8.0 12.7 1 3
Notes
* Countries or areas listed individually are
only those with 100,000 inhabitants or
more in 2010; the rest are included in the
regional groups but are not listed
separately.
a. More developed regions comprise
Europe, Northern America, Australia/
New Zealand and Japan.
b. Less developed regions comprise all
regions of Africa, Asia (excluding Japan),
Latin America and the Caribbean plus
Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
c. The least developed countries are 48
countries, 33 in Africa, 9 in Asia, 5 in
Oceania plus one in Latin America and
the Caribbean.
1. Including Seychelles.
2. Including Agalega, Rodrigues, and
Saint Brandon.
3. Including Zanzibar.
4. Including Southern Sudan which voted
in favor of independence, but was not an
official UN Member State as of May 2011.
5. Including Saint Helena, Ascension,
and Tristan da Cunha.
6. For statistical purposes, the data for
China do not include Hong Kong and
Macao, Special Administrative Regions
(SAR) of China.
7. As of 1 July 1997, Hong Kong became
a Special Administrative Region (SAR)
of China.
8. As of 20 December 1999, Macao
became a Special Administrative Region
(SAR) of China.
9. The regions Southern Asia and
Central Asia are combined into
South-Central Asia.
10. Including Sabah and Sarawak.
11. Including Nagorno-Karabakh.
12. Including Northern-Cyprus.
13. Including Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
14. Including East Jerusalem.
15. Including Transnistria.
16. Including Faeroe Islands, and
Isle of Man.
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