Moldova marks International Day of Older People
16:07 | 01.10.2023 Category: Social
Chisinau, 1 October /MOLDPRES/ - As many as 598,300 people of 60 years of age and older lived in Moldova in the beginning of the 2023 year, which accounts for 23.8 per cent of all people with usual residence. The National Statistics Bureau (BNS) has unveiled information to this effect, in the context of the International Day of Older People, marked today.
Thus, in early 2023, the population’s ageing coefficient stood at 23.8 per cent, which means a high level of demographic ageing. This coefficient increased by three percentage points against 2019.
According to data available for the 2022 year, the share of people older than 60 years is continuously increasing. The share of people from the age group of 70-74 years has grown most of all in the last five years – by 8.5 percentage points, from 13.6 per cent in early 2019 up to 22.1 per cent in the beginning of the 2023 year.
A number of 359,700 out of all old people were women, or 60.1 per cent; each third person had the age between 60 and 64 years and 60,100 represented the people older than 80 years.
On the period 2018-2022, the average life expectancy of the residents older than 60 years increased by 0.1 years for men and – by 0.4 years for women.
The main reasons of old people’s death rate were the diseases of the circulatory system, with a share of 65.5 per cent of all deceased people from the same age group, the tumours and the diseases of the digestive apparatus.
According to data by the National Social Insurances House, on 1 January 2023, the total number of pensioners stood at 675,600 people. The average size of the old age pension in the beginning of this year was 3,164.9 lei, up by 21.9 per cent against the year before and increasing by 92.5 per cent against the 2019 year.
