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.
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