Fact book on aging : selected charts and tables on the personal characteristics, income, employment, living arrangements and health of older persons in the population / Federal Security Agency, Committee on Aging and Geriatrics.

  • United States. Committee on Aging.
Date:
1952]
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Credit: Fact book on aging : selected charts and tables on the personal characteristics, income, employment, living arrangements and health of older persons in the population / Federal Security Agency, Committee on Aging and Geriatrics. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | RNR CERT RIE AER COLLATE ; £ 4 < , liar Sie ak |10r (ne -Frome G IS i QO f C I I HE I y . | | 2 [ 5 wi Fi hLad ; EEO oon & i i BY a x i { Number of Older Persons Since 1900, the population of the United States has doubled, but the number of persons 45 to 64 years has tri- pled, while the number 65 years and older has quadrupled. There are now (early 1952) 13 million men and women 65 years of age and over. This number is increasing currently at the rate of about 400,000 a year. Between 1940 and 1950 the country's population 65 years and over went up 36 percent. In California and Nevada the increase was 60 percent or more, in Arizona and Florida 80 percent or more. One in every 12 persons in the country is 65 years and over. This ratio varies in the States from about 1 in 19 in South Carolina to 1 in 9 in New Hampshire. Women outnumber men 10 to 9 in the 65 and over age group. More than half of the women in this age class are widows. The majority of the men 65 years and over are still married, on the other hand. Living Arrangements Of the 13 million persons 65 years and over in the United States at the end of 1951: Nine million, or 7 in 10, lived in their own house- holds, of whom all but nearly 2 million had a wife, husbandor some other relative living with them. About 2-3/4 million others, or about 2 in 10, were living in the homes of relatives; 3 out of 4 in this group were women. A little over half a million were roomers or boarders in families not related to them.