5 Countries with the Oldest People in the World

4. Japan

Number of People Aged 60 or Above: 44 million

If you read the introduction to this piece in the first part, you’d have understood by now that Japan is literally the poster child when it comes to an aging population. And statistics back this fact as well. The number of Japanese aged 60 or above sits at 44 million – representing 35% of its population. On the other hand, the number of Japanese aged 24 or below sits at a worrying 26 million – for quite a sizeable differential for the world’s third largest economy.