The world population is aging every passing day. The gradual decrease in birth rates, coupled with the increase in life expectancy, inevitably causes the population structure to change in favor of the elderly. Quantitative increase does not always mean qualitative increase. What is important is not only the quantitative increase in the elderly population, but also the increase in the health workforce that will serve the elderly population, meeting their necessary medical needs, ensuring that they are active in social life and ensuring that they live as high-quality a life as possible in the last stages of their lives. In the face of the increasing need for health services, especially due to age, it becomes necessary for countries to increase the ratio of health expenditures to their Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and to increase the number of midwives, nurses and physicians as well as the bed capacity in hospitals.

This study aims to compare the health indicators of the countries with the oldest populations in the world with Turkey. For this purpose, the first section compares the elderly population and life expectancy at birth. In the second section, within the scope of health expenditures, Current health expenditures (% of GDP), Domestic general government health expenditures (% of current health expenditures) and Domestic private health expenditures (% of current health expenditures) data are evaluated. In the third section, within the scope of other health indicators, the number of physicians, nurses-midwives and beds per 1000 people are comparatively discussed.