Population ageing seemed to have passed the Irish by until the Global Financial Crisis. The British (in dark blue) started older but really did not have much of an ageing until this squiggly behaviour in the last 10 years in their population data. Canada simply got older. There is a long pause in ageing in the USA but ageing started again apace in the last 10 years. Population ageing in Australia (in light blue) and New Zealand was pretty consistent over the entire period since 1970. Australians and New Zealanders simply got older.

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