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The estimates based on the NHS will be highly accurate for the data pre- sented in the Fact Book due to the design and size of the survey, but will vary slightly when compare to the census. [...] Topics highlighted in this document are listed in the Table of Contents and cover a wide range of areas including: the size and historical rate of growth of the elderly population of British Columbia; trends in life expectancy, mortality rates and causes of death; the marital status of the elderly popula- tion; its geographic distribution and residential mobility; ethnic composition; a description [...] The increase in the size of the population aged 65 and over was substantially greater in B. C. than for Canada as a whole. [...] In fact, the increase in the population aged 85 and over was over five times the increase in the population aged 65 and over. [...] In 2016 people aged 85 and over numbered 109,195 and represented 12.9% of the seniors' population of B. C. This can be contrasted with data presented in the first Fact Book on Aging (1986) where in 1981 persons aged 85 and over numbered only 27,100 in B. C. and represented only 9.1% of the population of seniors.