The aging of the Jewish population of Canada has been highlighted in statistics compiled by Louis Rosenberg, well-known Jewish demographer on the research staff of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
In a study of the age of the Jewish population of the city of Montreal, Mr. Rosenberg has shown that in the past 25 years the number of persons above the age of 65 increased by 450 percent, though the general population has not quite doubled in the same period of time. The percentage of men and women aged 65 or more in the total Jewish population increased from 2.5 percent in 1931 to 6.4 percent in 1958.
The percentage of the aged in Montreal is not above the national total. Of the 204,800 Canadian Jews studied by the dominion census, 13, 700 were over 65, constituting 6.7 percent of the total. (The proportion of Jews over 65 in the United States was recently reported as approximately 10 percent.)
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