According to the United Nations' Ageing Population Report 2019, there were 962 million people in the globe who were 60 or older in 2017. In the UK, there were 447,694 sexually transmitted diseases (STIs) diagnoses in 2018, a 5% rise from 2017. In addition, there were 7,541 occurrences of syphilis reported in 2018, a 5% rise from 2017, and 56,259 infections of gonorrhoea, a 26 percent increase from 2017.
