Developed by Sergei Schebov at IIASA’s Population and Just Societies Program (POPJUS), the World Aging Data Explorer (WADE) is featured on UNESCO’s Digital Innovation Hub.
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The World Aging Data Explorer (WADE), now also on the UNESCO Digital Innovation Hub, offers innovative ways to explore population ageing and old age.
The WADE is a powerful tool for exploring and evaluating indicators of population aging. It provides two types of indicators:
- Conventional indicators, which use a fixed threshold for old age—typically age 65—across time and space
- New indicators, which define the threshold of old age dynamically based on life expectancy
The indicators are based on data from the UN’s World Population Prospects 2022 and 2024, covering the period from 1950 to 2100 and disaggregated by region, subregion, and country.
Related publication
Sanderson, W. & Scherbov, S. (2019). Prospective Longevity: A New Vision of Population Aging. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-06-7497561-3
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