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A Statistical Profile of Black Older Americans Aged 65+

 

Almost 37.9 million Americans were aged 65 and over. Three in five people in this age group are women. Over the next forty years, the number of people aged 65 and older is expected to double and the number of people aged 85 and older is expected to triple. Along with general trends for America’s population, the African American or Black population is living longer.