On the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons, which is marked annually on 1 October, the National Bureau of Statistics presents information on the situation of the elderly, according to the data available for 2022.

In the Republic of Moldova, at the beginning of 2023, there were 598,3 thousand people aged 60 and over, which is 23,8% of the total population of usual residence. Of the total number of elderly people, 359,7 thousand people were women (or 60,1%), every third person was aged 60-64 (32,6%), and 60,1 thousand people (or 10,0%) constituted people aged over 80.
  
More detailed information is available in Romanian language.