(ANSA) - Rome, May 17 - The Italian population continues to
age and on January 1 this year the proportion of people aged 65
or over was 22%, the highest in the EU and "one of the highest
levels of aging in the world," ISTAT said on Wednesday. The
national statistics said Italy had overtaken Germany in this
regard and has 13.5 million people aged 65 or more. The number
of people aged 80 or over amounts to 4.1 million.
Aging Italy has highest proportion of over-65s in EU
ISTAT reports Italy has one of oldest populations in world