UK - The over-60s make up 21% of the UK's population, new figures from the Office for National Statistics based on the 2001 census show.
It is the first time in the 200-year history of the census that the over-60s have outnumbered children under 16. In addition, the number of people aged over 85 has increased five-fold since 1951 t...
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