Abstract
The ageing of Britain's population proceeded rapidly between 1901 and 1971 but has now slowed. Even the very high rates of increase of the population aged 75 or more years are likely to moderate in the 1990s. Further increases in the elderly population will be strongly influenced by trends in late-age mortality. For the last twenty years there have been substantial improvements in mortality but these will not inevitably continue. The distribution of elderly people in Britain has altered towards a less urban and more peripheral distribution, partly as a result of the migrations undertaken by elderly people. Rapid changes in the household distribution of elderly people are taking place, with one and two person households becoming more predominant.
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