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Across the older population, 53% are women and 47% are men. Between the ages of 60- 69, the split is almost equal, (51% and 49%) but this changes for older groups.
Conwy and Powys have the highest percentage of older people aged 60, at 35% while Cardiff has the lowest, at 19%, followed by Newport with 23%.2. Table 1: Projected population growth for over 60s and over 70s – 2022-2031. 2022. 26203160+ 70+Across the older population, 53% are women.
In 2020, an estimated 3,169,586 people were living in Wales, an increase of 0.5% (16,700) by mid-2019.1. The latest statistics published by the ONS in 2020, report older people aged 65 and over account for 21% of the population of Wales (668,590 people), the highest proportion of all UK countries.2.
Age Cymru's Older people in Wales: facts and statistics publication is a source of publicly available facts and statistics. This publication was produced by Age Cymru in partnership with Swansea University’s Graduate Support Programme, utilising Welsh Government funding via the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW).
- Reference Date
- Response Rate
- Ethnic Group Question
- Ethnic Groups in The Detailed Ethnic Group Classification
- Gender Identity
- Religion Question
- Religious Groups in The Detailed Religion Classification
- 2011 Religion Data
- Sexual Orientation
- Quality
The census provides estimates of the characteristics of all people and households in England and Wales on Census Day, 21 March 2021. It is carried out every 10 years and provides the most accurate estimate of all the people and households in England and Wales. We are responsible for carrying out the census in England and Wales, but will also releas...
The person response rate is the number of usual residents for whom individual details were provided on a returned questionnaire, divided by the estimated usual resident population. The person response rate for Census 2021 was 97% of the usual resident population of England and Wales and over 88% in all local authorities. Most returns (89%) were rec...
To see the ethnic group question on the household, individual, and Welsh questionnaires, visit our Census 2021 paper questionnaires page.
An ethnic group will be shown in the detailed classification if the number of people who identified with the group within a write-in response option are large enough to disaggregate from other ethnic groups. For this reason, some ethnic groups appear in multiple high level categories. Where the number of people identifying with an ethnic group is s...
The question on gender identity was new for Census 2021. It was voluntary and was only asked of people aged 16 years and over. Percentages are calculated out of the overall population, as opposed to out of the population who answered the gender identity question. In total, 45.7 million people answered the gender identity question (94.0% of the popu...
The question on religion was voluntary. Percentages are calculated out of the overall population, as opposed to out of the population who answered the religion question. In total, 94.0% of the overall population in England and Wales (56.0 million people) chose to answer the religion question in 2021. This is a higher percentage than in 2011, when 9...
The counts for religious groups identified in our Religion (detailed) in England and Wales datasetare a representation of people who chose to write in their religion. Some people may have chosen to describe a denomination of one of the tick-box responses (for example, Catholic as a denomination of Christian or Orthodox as a denomination of Jewish) ...
In 2011, an error in the processing of census data led to the number of usual residents in the “Religion not stated” category being overestimated by a total of 62,000 for the following three local authorities combined: 1. Camden 2. Islington 3. Tower Hamlets In February 2015, we published corrected figures for estimates based on the tick-box classi...
The question on sexual orientation was new for Census 2021. It was voluntary and was only asked of people aged 16 years and over. Percentages are calculated out of the overall population, as opposed to out of the population who answered the sexual orientation question. In total, 44.9 million people answered the sexual orientation question (92.5% of...
The census provides the most detailed picture of the entire population, with the same core questions asked to everybody across England and Wales. Census results can be more reliable than survey results based on a sample of the population, because the whole population is included. The UK Statistics Authority has assigned National Statistics status t...
There were 1,586,600 women (51.1% of the population) and 1,521,000 men (48.9%) in Wales. There were more people than ever before in the older age groups; the proportion of the population who...
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