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The precise understanding of the molecular and genetic changes in the aging lung that elevate the risk of acute and chronic lung diseases remains incomplete. Alveolar type II (AT2) cells are stem cells that maintain epithelial homeostasis and repair the lung after injury. AT2 progenitor function decreases with aging. The maintenance of AT2 function requires niche support from other cell types, but little has been done to characterize alveolar alterations with aging in the AT2 niche. To systematically profile the genetic changes associated with age, we present a single-cell transcriptional atlas comprising nearly half a million cells from the healthy lungs of human subjects spanning various ages, sexes, and smoking statuses. Most annotated cell lineages in aged lungs exhibit dysregulated genetic programs. 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