Share aged 65+ by country, 2027

7%, 14% and 21% are the usual thresholds for an ageing, aged and super-aged society. Values are UN medium-variant projections.

◀▶2027

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2017
1	Holy See	40.0%	47.0%
2	Monaco	35.4%	34.7%
3	Japan	30.2%	27.7%
4	Saint Helena	28.3%	21.8%
5	Martinique	27.8%	19.1%
6	Puerto Rico	26.1%	19.2%
7	Italy	25.8%	22.4%
8	Guadeloupe	25.8%	17.1%
9	Portugal	25.6%	21.2%
10	China, Hong Kong SAR	25.1%	16.2%
11	Greece	24.8%	21.5%
12	Finland	24.7%	20.9%
13	Germany	24.5%	21.2%
14	Isle of Man	24.3%	20.8%
15	Croatia	24.2%	19.9%
16	San Marino	24.2%	18.9%
17	Bermuda	23.8%	16.9%
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	23.8%	18.0%
19	United States Virgin Islands	23.8%	18.5%
20	Serbia	23.5%	19.6%
21	France	23.1%	19.5%
22	Guernsey	22.9%	19.4%
23	Slovenia	22.9%	18.7%
24	Latvia	22.9%	19.9%
25	Bulgaria	22.6%	20.7%
26	Estonia	22.4%	19.3%
27	Spain	22.4%	18.9%
28	Liechtenstein	22.3%	17.1%
29	Republic of Korea	22.0%	13.6%
30	Austria	21.9%	18.5%
31	Saint Martin (French part)	21.6%	7.8%
32	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	21.6%	16.7%
33	Belgium	21.6%	18.5%
34	Lithuania	21.6%	19.3%
35	Netherlands	21.5%	18.2%
36	Czechia	21.5%	18.8%
37	Denmark	21.5%	19.0%
38	Poland	21.5%	16.2%
39	China, Taiwan Province of China	21.4%	13.3%
40	Hungary	21.3%	18.6%
41	Switzerland	21.1%	18.1%
42	Sweden	21.1%	19.8%
43	Malta	21.1%	18.8%
44	Canada	20.9%	16.6%
45	Romania	20.3%	17.7%
46	Montserrat	20.1%	15.2%
47	United Kingdom	20.0%	18.0%
48	Jersey	19.9%	16.9%
49	Slovakia	19.7%	14.9%
50	Norway	19.6%	16.6%
51	Ukraine	19.4%	15.7%
52	Belarus	19.2%	14.7%
53	North Macedonia	19.2%	14.2%
54	United States of America	19.0%	14.8%
55	Montenegro	19.0%	15.0%
56	Aruba	18.8%	12.4%
57	Saint Barthélemy	18.8%	9.8%
58	Albania	18.7%	13.1%
59	Australia	18.6%	15.3%
60	Russian Federation	18.6%	14.0%
61	Gibraltar	18.2%	17.5%
62	New Zealand	18.2%	14.8%
63	Curaçao	18.1%	14.6%
64	Cuba	17.9%	14.6%
65	Barbados	17.9%	13.3%
66	Faroe Islands	17.9%	17.2%
67	Republic of Moldova	17.7%	12.6%
68	Andorra	17.5%	13.0%
69	Niue	17.3%	13.1%
70	Réunion	17.2%	11.0%
71	Thailand	17.0%	11.0%
72	Ireland	16.7%	13.5%
73	Uruguay	16.6%	14.7%
74	Georgia	16.5%	14.3%
75	Iceland	16.4%	14.0%
76	Luxembourg	16.4%	14.3%
77	China, Macao SAR	16.3%	9.2%
78	Wallis and Futuna Islands	16.1%	11.0%
79	Cook Islands	16.0%	10.2%
80	Armenia	15.5%	11.3%
81	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	15.5%	12.0%
82	Cyprus	15.4%	12.8%
83	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	15.3%	8.7%
84	Chile	15.3%	11.7%
85	China	15.2%	10.7%
86	Singapore	15.0%	9.7%
87	Mauritius	15.0%	9.6%
88	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	14.2%	10.7%
89	Guam	13.8%	9.2%
90	Trinidad and Tobago	13.8%	8.7%
91	Anguilla	13.7%	8.6%
92	Costa Rica	13.6%	9.2%
93	Dominica	13.6%	11.6%
94	Grenada	13.2%	10.3%
95	Antigua and Barbuda	13.1%	8.6%
96	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	13.1%	10.9%
97	Sri Lanka	13.0%	9.5%
98	Argentina	12.9%	11.2%
99	French Polynesia	12.9%	7.7%
100	Israel	12.8%	11.4%
101	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	12.8%	9.8%
102	Greenland	12.7%	8.1%
103	Bahamas	12.6%	10.4%
104	Palau	12.6%	8.0%
105	Turks and Caicos Islands	12.4%	8.9%
106	Northern Mariana Islands	12.4%	5.0%
107	Saint Kitts and Nevis	12.3%	8.0%
108	New Caledonia	12.3%	9.2%
109	Brazil	12.1%	8.4%
110	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	11.2%	7.9%
111	Türkiye	11.1%	7.8%
112	Colombia	10.9%	7.5%
113	Lebanon	10.9%	7.6%
114	British Virgin Islands	10.9%	7.5%
115	Saint Lucia	10.5%	8.2%
116	Tunisia	10.5%	7.3%
117	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	10.5%	6.8%
118	Cayman Islands	10.4%	6.5%
119	Azerbaijan	10.1%	6.0%
120	Panama	10.1%	7.5%
121	Viet Nam	10.1%	6.7%
122	Peru	9.8%	8.3%
123	Kazakhstan	9.5%	7.0%
124	American Samoa	9.3%	5.5%
125	Jamaica	9.2%	6.6%
126	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	9.1%	6.4%
127	Seychelles	9.1%	7.1%
128	Ecuador	9.0%	6.9%
129	Mexico	8.9%	6.9%
130	Morocco	8.9%	6.1%
131	Suriname	8.7%	6.3%
132	El Salvador	8.6%	7.3%
133	Tokelau	8.6%	9.2%
134	Dominican Republic	8.6%	6.0%
135	Malaysia	8.5%	6.0%
136	Indonesia	7.9%	6.2%
137	Myanmar	7.9%	5.9%
138	Brunei Darussalam	7.8%	4.5%
139	India	7.7%	5.7%
140	Tuvalu	7.7%	5.4%
141	Cabo Verde	7.6%	5.4%
142	French Guiana	7.6%	5.1%
143	Guyana	7.3%	5.5%
144	Algeria	7.2%	5.4%
145	South Africa	7.2%	5.6%
146	Western Sahara	7.1%	4.8%
147	Tonga	7.0%	6.0%
148	Paraguay	7.0%	5.7%
149	Bangladesh	6.9%	5.2%
150	Fiji	6.9%	5.4%
151	Nepal	6.8%	5.7%
152	Bhutan	6.8%	5.8%
153	Cambodia	6.7%	4.8%
154	Uzbekistan	6.4%	4.9%
155	Kyrgyzstan	6.4%	5.1%
156	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	6.4%	4.2%
157	Samoa	6.3%	4.9%
158	Philippines	6.1%	4.0%
159	Nicaragua	6.0%	4.9%
160	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	5.9%	5.6%
161	Mongolia	5.9%	3.9%
162	Belize	5.6%	4.2%
163	Egypt	5.5%	4.3%
164	Maldives	5.5%	3.9%
165	Libya	5.5%	4.6%
166	Marshall Islands	5.3%	3.1%
167	Djibouti	5.2%	4.2%
168	Turkmenistan	5.2%	3.6%
169	Timor-Leste	5.2%	5.5%
170	Guatemala	5.1%	4.2%
171	Jordan	5.1%	3.5%
172	Syrian Arab Republic	5.0%	4.3%
173	Lao People's Democratic Republic	5.0%	4.1%
174	Haiti	4.9%	4.2%
175	Honduras	4.7%	3.6%
176	Kiribati	4.6%	3.8%
177	Pakistan	4.5%	3.9%
178	Vanuatu	4.5%	3.9%
179	Eswatini	4.4%	3.5%
180	Comoros	4.4%	4.4%
181	Tajikistan	4.4%	3.0%
182	Eritrea	4.3%	4.0%
183	Bahrain	4.3%	2.6%
184	Gabon	4.2%	4.0%
185	Botswana	4.1%	3.7%
186	Rwanda	4.1%	3.1%
187	Ghana	4.0%	3.4%
188	Sao Tome and Principe	4.0%	3.6%
189	State of Palestine	4.0%	3.3%
190	Namibia	3.9%	3.5%
191	Lesotho	3.9%	3.8%
192	Equatorial Guinea	3.9%	3.3%
193	Papua New Guinea	3.8%	2.9%
194	Senegal	3.7%	3.5%
195	Solomon Islands	3.7%	3.6%
196	Madagascar	3.6%	2.9%
197	Iraq	3.5%	3.1%
198	Guinea	3.5%	3.5%
199	Zimbabwe	3.5%	3.3%
200	Sudan	3.5%	2.7%
201	Ethiopia	3.4%	3.0%
202	Gambia	3.4%	2.6%
203	Sierra Leone	3.4%	3.1%
204	Liberia	3.4%	3.2%
205	Guinea-Bissau	3.3%	2.9%
206	Kuwait	3.3%	2.8%
207	Togo	3.3%	2.9%
208	Mauritania	3.3%	3.4%
209	Congo	3.2%	2.7%
210	Saudi Arabia	3.2%	2.2%
211	Nauru	3.2%	1.7%
212	Benin	3.2%	3.0%
213	South Sudan	3.2%	2.5%
214	Kenya	3.1%	2.5%
215	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.1%	3.1%
216	Nigeria	3.1%	3.0%
217	Angola	3.0%	2.7%
218	United Republic of Tanzania	3.0%	3.0%
219	Cameroon	2.9%	2.8%
220	Mayotte	2.9%	2.6%
221	Oman	2.7%	2.5%
222	Côte d'Ivoire	2.7%	2.5%
223	Somalia	2.7%	2.4%
224	Niger	2.7%	2.5%
225	Burkina Faso	2.7%	2.6%
226	Mozambique	2.7%	2.8%
227	Yemen	2.6%	2.6%
228	Burundi	2.6%	2.3%
229	Malawi	2.6%	2.9%
230	Afghanistan	2.5%	2.4%
231	Uganda	2.3%	2.0%
232	Mali	2.3%	2.6%
233	Central African Republic	2.3%	2.1%
234	Zambia	2.1%	1.7%
235	Chad	2.1%	2.0%
236	United Arab Emirates	1.8%	1.5%
237	Qatar	1.7%	1.1%

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024. Includes small territories.