A/HRC/45/14 Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 3 II. Activities of the Independent Experts ........................................................................................... 3 III. Representative and meaningful data on older persons .................................................................. 6 A. Why data matters .................................................................................................................. 6 B. The data gap conundrum....................................................................................................... 7 C. Data revolution ..................................................................................................................... 10 D. Overview of the legal and policy framework and recent initiatives...................................... 11 E. Data gap impact .................................................................................................................... 13 Conclusions and recommendations ............................................................................................... 17 IV. 2