Share aged 65+ by country, 2037

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

◀▶2037

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2027
1	Martinique	36.1%	27.8%
2	China, Hong Kong SAR	34.5%	25.1%
3	Monaco	33.9%	35.4%
4	Japan	33.3%	30.2%
5	Saint Helena	33.1%	28.3%
6	San Marino	32.7%	24.2%
7	Guadeloupe	32.6%	25.8%
8	Saint Martin (French part)	32.6%	21.6%
9	Italy	32.2%	25.8%
10	Puerto Rico	31.4%	26.1%
11	Republic of Korea	30.9%	22.0%
12	Bermuda	30.7%	23.8%
13	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	30.1%	21.6%
14	Isle of Man	29.6%	24.3%
15	Portugal	29.4%	25.6%
16	China, Taiwan Province of China	29.4%	21.4%
17	Greece	29.3%	24.8%
18	Germany	29.3%	24.5%
19	Holy See	29.1%	40.0%
20	Spain	28.8%	22.4%
21	Guernsey	28.3%	22.9%
22	Liechtenstein	28.0%	22.3%
23	Bosnia and Herzegovina	27.7%	23.8%
24	Austria	27.5%	21.9%
25	Croatia	27.2%	24.2%
26	Slovenia	27.1%	22.9%
27	Finland	26.9%	24.7%
28	United States Virgin Islands	26.8%	23.8%
29	Switzerland	26.4%	21.1%
30	Cuba	26.3%	17.9%
31	Andorra	26.2%	17.5%
32	France	26.2%	23.1%
33	Latvia	25.7%	22.9%
34	Lithuania	25.5%	21.6%
35	Serbia	25.4%	23.5%
36	Belgium	25.4%	21.6%
37	Estonia	25.3%	22.4%
38	Netherlands	25.3%	21.5%
39	Jersey	25.3%	19.9%
40	Cook Islands	24.9%	16.0%
41	Bulgaria	24.8%	22.6%
42	Denmark	24.5%	21.5%
43	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	24.4%	14.2%
44	Poland	24.2%	21.5%
45	Albania	24.1%	18.7%
46	China	24.1%	15.2%
47	Aruba	24.0%	18.8%
48	Canada	24.0%	20.9%
49	Czechia	24.0%	21.5%
50	China, Macao SAR	24.0%	16.3%
51	Saint Barthélemy	23.9%	18.8%
52	Montserrat	23.9%	20.1%
53	Sweden	23.7%	21.1%
54	Thailand	23.7%	17.0%
55	Réunion	23.7%	17.2%
56	Norway	23.6%	19.6%
57	Northern Mariana Islands	23.6%	12.4%
58	Malta	23.5%	21.1%
59	Romania	23.5%	20.3%
60	Ukraine	23.2%	19.4%
61	Slovakia	23.1%	19.7%
62	North Macedonia	23.1%	19.2%
63	Hungary	23.0%	21.3%
64	United Kingdom	22.8%	20.0%
65	Belarus	22.7%	19.2%
66	Curaçao	22.1%	18.1%
67	Montenegro	22.1%	19.0%
68	New Zealand	21.9%	18.2%
69	United States of America	21.8%	19.0%
70	Barbados	21.8%	17.9%
71	Wallis and Futuna Islands	21.7%	16.1%
72	Australia	21.6%	18.6%
73	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	21.6%	15.3%
74	Luxembourg	21.0%	16.4%
75	Gibraltar	20.8%	18.2%
76	Anguilla	20.7%	13.7%
77	Russian Federation	20.6%	18.6%
78	Ireland	20.4%	16.7%
79	French Polynesia	20.2%	12.9%
80	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	20.1%	15.5%
81	Chile	20.1%	15.3%
82	Mauritius	19.9%	15.0%
83	Faroe Islands	19.8%	17.9%
84	Singapore	19.7%	15.0%
85	Iceland	19.5%	16.4%
86	Armenia	19.4%	15.5%
87	Republic of Moldova	19.3%	17.7%
88	Antigua and Barbuda	19.2%	13.1%
89	Uruguay	19.2%	16.6%
90	Cyprus	19.0%	15.4%
91	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	18.7%	13.1%
92	Costa Rica	18.6%	13.6%
93	Greenland	18.5%	12.7%
94	Georgia	18.5%	16.5%
95	Turks and Caicos Islands	18.0%	12.4%
96	Guam	17.6%	13.8%
97	Trinidad and Tobago	17.6%	13.8%
98	Cayman Islands	17.5%	10.4%
99	Bahamas	17.2%	12.6%
100	Palau	17.2%	12.6%
101	Dominica	17.1%	13.6%
102	British Virgin Islands	17.0%	10.9%
103	New Caledonia	16.9%	12.3%
104	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	16.4%	12.8%
105	Brazil	16.3%	12.1%
106	Sri Lanka	16.1%	13.0%
107	Saint Kitts and Nevis	16.1%	12.3%
108	Grenada	15.9%	13.2%
109	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	15.6%	11.2%
110	Niue	15.2%	17.3%
111	American Samoa	15.2%	9.3%
112	Colombia	15.1%	10.9%
113	Türkiye	15.1%	11.1%
114	Argentina	15.0%	12.9%
115	Saint Lucia	15.0%	10.5%
116	Tunisia	14.6%	10.5%
117	Viet Nam	14.5%	10.1%
118	Azerbaijan	14.4%	10.1%
119	Lebanon	14.0%	10.9%
120	Israel	13.9%	12.8%
121	Panama	13.9%	10.1%
122	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	13.5%	10.5%
123	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	13.3%	9.1%
124	Jamaica	13.0%	9.2%
125	Seychelles	12.9%	9.1%
126	Peru	12.7%	9.8%
127	Mexico	12.3%	8.9%
128	Brunei Darussalam	12.2%	7.8%
129	Ecuador	12.0%	9.0%
130	Suriname	11.9%	8.7%
131	Kazakhstan	11.8%	9.5%
132	Morocco	11.8%	8.9%
133	Dominican Republic	11.5%	8.6%
134	Malaysia	11.3%	8.5%
135	Indonesia	11.0%	7.9%
136	Tokelau	11.0%	8.6%
137	El Salvador	10.9%	8.6%
138	Cabo Verde	10.9%	7.6%
139	Tuvalu	10.7%	7.7%
140	Algeria	10.4%	7.2%
141	India	10.2%	7.7%
142	Myanmar	10.2%	7.9%
143	French Guiana	10.0%	7.6%
144	Maldives	9.6%	5.5%
145	Guyana	9.5%	7.3%
146	Western Sahara	9.5%	7.1%
147	Libya	9.4%	5.5%
148	Tonga	9.2%	7.0%
149	Paraguay	9.2%	7.0%
150	Bhutan	9.2%	6.8%
151	Mongolia	9.0%	5.9%
152	Bangladesh	8.9%	6.9%
153	Marshall Islands	8.7%	5.3%
154	Cambodia	8.6%	6.7%
155	South Africa	8.6%	7.2%
156	Kyrgyzstan	8.4%	6.4%
157	Uzbekistan	8.2%	6.4%
158	Nicaragua	8.2%	6.0%
159	Fiji	8.2%	6.9%
160	Philippines	8.2%	6.1%
161	Belize	8.1%	5.6%
162	Jordan	8.1%	5.1%
163	Turkmenistan	8.0%	5.2%
164	Nepal	8.0%	6.8%
165	Samoa	7.9%	6.3%
166	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.4%	6.4%
167	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	7.3%	5.9%
168	Egypt	7.0%	5.5%
169	Djibouti	7.0%	5.2%
170	Lao People's Democratic Republic	6.7%	5.0%
171	Syrian Arab Republic	6.5%	5.0%
172	Guatemala	6.3%	5.1%
173	Honduras	6.3%	4.7%
174	Kiribati	6.2%	4.6%
175	Tajikistan	6.1%	4.4%
176	Bahrain	6.1%	4.3%
177	Haiti	6.0%	4.9%
178	Timor-Leste	5.5%	5.2%
179	Vanuatu	5.4%	4.5%
180	State of Palestine	5.4%	4.0%
181	Ghana	5.3%	4.0%
182	Botswana	5.3%	4.1%
183	Papua New Guinea	5.2%	3.8%
184	Iraq	5.1%	3.5%
185	Eswatini	5.1%	4.4%
186	Gabon	5.1%	4.2%
187	Pakistan	5.1%	4.5%
188	Eritrea	5.0%	4.3%
189	Comoros	4.9%	4.4%
190	Namibia	4.9%	3.9%
191	Solomon Islands	4.8%	3.7%
192	Equatorial Guinea	4.8%	3.9%
193	Saudi Arabia	4.7%	3.2%
194	Sao Tome and Principe	4.7%	4.0%
195	Kuwait	4.6%	3.3%
196	Gambia	4.4%	3.4%
197	Rwanda	4.4%	4.1%
198	Senegal	4.3%	3.7%
199	Nauru	4.3%	3.2%
200	South Sudan	4.3%	3.2%
201	Ethiopia	4.2%	3.4%
202	Congo	4.2%	3.2%
203	Sudan	4.2%	3.5%
204	Madagascar	4.2%	3.6%
205	Mayotte	4.1%	2.9%
206	Kenya	4.0%	3.1%
207	Sierra Leone	4.0%	3.4%
208	Togo	4.0%	3.3%
209	Guinea-Bissau	3.9%	3.3%
210	Lesotho	3.9%	3.9%
211	Guinea	3.8%	3.5%
212	Benin	3.8%	3.2%
213	Liberia	3.8%	3.4%
214	Mauritania	3.7%	3.3%
215	Nigeria	3.5%	3.1%
216	Angola	3.4%	3.0%
217	Oman	3.4%	2.7%
218	Cameroon	3.4%	2.9%
219	Yemen	3.3%	2.6%
220	Côte d'Ivoire	3.3%	2.7%
221	United Republic of Tanzania	3.3%	3.0%
222	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.2%	3.1%
223	Burkina Faso	3.2%	2.7%
224	Zimbabwe	3.1%	3.5%
225	Afghanistan	3.0%	2.5%
226	Malawi	3.0%	2.6%
227	Uganda	2.9%	2.3%
228	Zambia	2.9%	2.1%
229	Somalia	2.9%	2.7%
230	Niger	2.9%	2.7%
231	Burundi	2.8%	2.6%
232	United Arab Emirates	2.7%	1.8%
233	Mozambique	2.7%	2.7%
234	Chad	2.5%	2.1%
235	Mali	2.4%	2.3%
236	Central African Republic	2.3%	2.3%
237	Qatar	1.8%	1.7%

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