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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/77721 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/77721 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/77721 archive 2 disk0/00/01/46/19 2017-05-24 07:02:48 2021-08-27 17:29:01 2017-05-24 07:02:48 article show Sánchez-Romero M. Ediev D. 2019 0000-0001-7503-5142 Feichtinger G. Prskawetz A. 2025 pub Background: Uninformed generalizations about how many elderly people have ever lived, based on a poor understanding of demography, are found in a surprising number of important publications. Objective: We extend the methodology applied to the controversial question “how many people have ever been born?” initiated by Fucks, Winkler, and Keyfitz, to the proportion of people who have ever reached a certain age y and are alive today (denoted as π(y, T )). Methods: We first analyze the fraction π(y, T ) by using demographic data based on UN estimates. Second, we show the main mathematical properties of π(y, T ) by age and over time. Third, we complete our analysis by using alternative population models. Results: We estimate that the proportion who have ever been over 65 that are alive today (as of 2010) ranges between 5.5 and 9.5%. We extend the formal demographic literature by considering the fraction of interest in two frequently referred models: the stable and hyperbolic growth populations. Conclusions: We show that statements claiming half of all people who have ever reached the age of 65 are alive today ranges would never be attainable, neither theoretically nor empirically, according to existing data. Contribution: We have produced for the first time a harmonized reconstruction of the human population by age throughout history. For a given contemporaneous time T , we demonstrate analytically and numerically that π(y, T ) is nonmonotonic in age y. For a given age y, we show that π(y, T ) may also be nonmonotonic with respect to T . 2017 10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.54 76 100 public Demographic Research 36 1667-1702 TRUE 1435-9871 FALSE info:eu-repo/semantics/article