Based on the information as of January 1, 2020, the number of people aged 65 and higher equaled to 719.9 thousand people in Azerbaijan, the State Statistics Committee said, EDNews.net reports citing APA.
The report says from these people, 306.8 thousand are males, while 413.1 thousand are females.
It was stated that the number of people in the mentioned age group prevailed in Baku, Ganja, Sumgait, Lankaran, Sheki cities and Absheron, Shamkir, Terter, Masalli, Tovuz, Jalilabad, Khachmaz, Guba, Berde regions.