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The growth in the number of older people over the coming decades and the financial and economic consequences this will have, including for the affordability of state pensions and care for the elderly, are a cause of concern for policymakers. These changes are referred to collectively as "population ageing." Their importance prompted the government to set out its vision on policy on ageing and the elderly, including its plan to monitor the results of policy on the elderly. This publication is the first result of that plan. It presents a statistical picture of the trend in population ageing in the Netherlands in a number of policy domains, namely, employment, income, housing, health, and care.