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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Popul Dev Rev. 2022 Jun 24;48(3):829–862. doi: 10.1111/padr.12506

Table 3.

Key Population Aging Indicators for the Sample Countries.

Number of adults aged 50+ (millions) Adults aged 50+ as percent of country’s total population
  1990 2020 2050 1990 2020 2050
Austria 2.4 3.7 4.5 31.4% 41.3% 49.2%
Belgium 3.2 4.6 5.5 32.1% 39.4% 44.8%
China 187.7 472.0 662.5 15.9% 32.8% 47.2%
Croatia 1.5 1.7 1.7 30.7% 42.5% 51.1%
Czechia 2.9 4.2 4.9 27.9% 38.8% 46.8%
Denmark 1.6 2.3 2.7 30.9% 40.1% 42.9%
England 17.9 25.7 32.4 31.4% 37.9% 43.8%
Estonia 0.5 0.5 0.6 29.5% 39.3% 48.3%
France 16.8 26.2 30.5 29.6% 40.1% 45.1%
Germany 26.7 37.5 39.3 33.7% 44.7% 49.0%
Greece 3.3 4.5 4.9 31.9% 43.2% 54.0%
Indonesia 23.1 56.7 109.7 12.7% 20.7% 33.2%
Ireland 0.8 1.6 2.4 22.6% 31.8% 42.9%
Israel 0.9 2.2 3.9 19.6% 25.6% 30.6%
Italy 18.8 27.6 29.5 32.9% 45.7% 54.2%
Luxembourg 0.1 0.2 0.3 30.7% 34.4% 43.5%
Mexico 9.8 27.2 55.0 11.7% 21.1% 35.5%
Netherlands 4.1 7.1 8.0 27.5% 41.3% 46.7%
Poland 9.5 14.4 17.1 25.1% 38.0% 51.3%
Portugal 3.0 4.5 4.8 30.3% 43.9% 52.7%
Rep. of Korea 7.0 20.3 27.6 16.2% 39.7% 59.0%
Slovenia 0.6 0.9 1.0 27.4% 42.3% 49.6%
Spain 11.6 19.3 23.3 29.6% 41.3% 53.5%
Sweden 2.8 3.9 4.9 33.1% 38.8% 42.9%
Switzerland 2.0 3.5 4.6 30.7% 40.5% 47.2%
Thailand 8.3 24.1 32.7 14.7% 34.5% 49.6%
USA 64.7 117.8 154.6 25.6% 35.6% 40.8%

Study countries total 431.6 914.2 1,268.9
Rest of world 456.0 969.1 1,909.7 14.7% 19.3% 27.8%
World 887.4 1,883.4 3,178.7 16.7% 24.2% 32.7%