Population aged 65 and over in Moldova
18.2% of people in Moldova were aged 65 or over on 1 January 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2006.
Moldova, 2025
18.2%
Change from 2024
+0.7percentage points
European Union, 2025
22.0%ep (Source flag ep)
Position in 2025
33rd of 40
Population aged 65 and over in Moldova over time
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% of total population. Source: Eurostat. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
Flags: b break in time series; be break in time series, estimated; e estimated; bep break in time series, estimated, provisional; ep estimated, provisional . A dash means no value was published.
In short
- That is a change of +0.7 percentage points from 17.5% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 11.5%, the figure has changed by +6.7 percentage points.
- Among the 40 countries with data for 2025, Moldova has the 33rd highest value.
- The figure for the European Union in 2025 was 22.0%.
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All statistics for Moldova
Population aged 65 and over
16.9%
2025 · World Bank
Old-age dependency ratio
29.2 per 100 working-age people
2025 · Eurostat
Median age of the population
41.3 years
2025 · Eurostat
Population on 1 January
2,388,571 people
2025 · Eurostat
Population by age and sex
2,388,571 people
2025 · Eurostat
Crude birth rate
9.2e (Estimated) per 1,000 people
2025 · Eurostat