48k over-65s by 2021 in WHSCT
We're getting older and older with the number of pensioners projected to have increased to almost 50,000 across the Western Trust by 2021.
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In 2006, there were 32,066 people aged over 65 in the Western Trust area but this rose to 36,312 in 2011; to 39,796 in 2014; and will reach 48,880 in 2021.