The proportion of elderly people living in Iceland is increasing and the population of Iceland now includes 34,800 individuals who have reached the age of 67. Statistics Iceland (The Icelandic Bureau of Statistics) estimates that this percentage will be doubled during the course of the next twenty years.
Íslenska þjóðin er að eldast og telur í dag u.þ.b. 34.800 einstaklinga 67 ára og eldri, Hagstofa Íslands (e.d.) gerir ráð fyrir að sá fjöldi muni tvöfaldast á næstu 20 árum.