Over 1000 people for every 100,000 Japanese are now over 90 years old

Japan's elderly are running ahead

With 1,197 people aged over 90 for every 100,000 citizens, Japan has by far the world's highest concentration of old people. England and Wales beat Norway to 5th place, since residents have a 0.8 in a 100 chance of making it past 90.

Although Africa is the least aged region of the world, there's more to this data than life expectancies and money. United States, Australia and New Zealand all rank behind Spain and Italy, despite having more wealth per citizen.

Why is there no data for 2013?

The numbers only go up to 2012 because of a slightly grim counting method - the government use death data to work out how many of the 'very old' are likely to still be alive.
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Sweden 995 per 100,000 people
Italy         908
France    887
England and Waled 823
Norway   813
Spain       778
Denmark  720
Finland    710
U.S.          665

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