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Rich countries with the highest number of poor older people

Old age poverty in affluent nations
Ireland
China
Malta
USA
Greece
UK
Thailand
Lithuania
New Zealand
South Africa
Japan
Spain
Chile
Estonia
Bulgaria
Australia
Mexico
Latvia
South Korea
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Old age poverty in affluent nations

There are 982 million people over the age of 60 in the world, and 180 million of them – 18% – live in poverty, according to Age International UK. And these include a growing number of older people in some of the world's richest countries. We look at the developed nations where many people are facing a poor old age, and why this is happening.
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Charlotte Irwin

03 August 2018

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