International Day of Older Persons

Date published: 01 October 2018

Topics: Population, Births, deaths and marriages, People, Places and Culture

October 1st marks International Day of Older Persons

An infographic with a selection of statistics relating to older people in Northern Ireland has been compiled to mark International Day of Older Persons 2018

Population Statistics on people aged 65+

There are just over 300,000 people aged 65+ living in Northern Ireland (that’s 1 in 6 people).
2% of our population are aged 85+.
1 in every 10,000 of our population are centenarians.
Northern Ireland had the fastest growing population aged 65+ in the UK over the last decade (2007-2017) – 25% versus 23% UK average.
10 years from now (2028) the population aged 65+ in Northern Ireland is projected to overtake children (0-15).