Share aged 65+ by country, 2038

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

◀▶2038

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2028
1	Martinique	36.6%	28.9%
2	China, Hong Kong SAR	35.3%	26.2%
3	Japan	33.9%	30.4%
4	Monaco	33.5%	35.3%
5	San Marino	33.3%	25.0%
6	Saint Martin (French part)	33.2%	23.0%
7	Saint Helena	33.1%	29.0%
8	Guadeloupe	33.0%	26.7%
9	Italy	32.8%	26.4%
10	Puerto Rico	31.8%	26.7%
11	Republic of Korea	31.8%	22.9%
12	Bermuda	31.2%	24.7%
13	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	30.8%	22.5%
14	Isle of Man	30.1%	24.9%
15	China, Taiwan Province of China	30.0%	22.2%
16	Greece	29.8%	25.2%
17	Portugal	29.8%	26.0%
18	Spain	29.5%	23.0%
19	Germany	29.5%	25.0%
20	Guernsey	28.7%	23.5%
21	Holy See	28.3%	37.5%
22	Liechtenstein	28.3%	23.0%
23	Bosnia and Herzegovina	28.0%	24.4%
24	Austria	27.9%	22.5%
25	Croatia	27.4%	24.6%
26	Slovenia	27.4%	23.4%
27	Andorra	27.2%	18.3%
28	Cuba	27.1%	18.7%
29	Finland	26.9%	25.0%
30	United States Virgin Islands	26.8%	24.2%
31	Switzerland	26.7%	21.6%
32	France	26.5%	23.4%
33	Latvia	26.0%	23.2%
34	Lithuania	25.9%	22.1%
35	Estonia	25.7%	22.8%
36	Jersey	25.7%	20.4%
37	Belgium	25.7%	22.0%
38	Cook Islands	25.6%	17.1%
39	Serbia	25.6%	23.8%
40	Netherlands	25.5%	21.9%
41	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	25.3%	14.7%
42	Bulgaria	25.0%	22.8%
43	China	25.0%	16.0%
44	Denmark	24.7%	21.8%
45	China, Macao SAR	24.7%	17.3%
46	Albania	24.5%	19.3%
47	Poland	24.5%	21.8%
48	Czechia	24.4%	21.7%
49	Montserrat	24.4%	20.7%
50	Northern Mariana Islands	24.4%	13.5%
51	Aruba	24.2%	19.5%
52	Saint Barthélemy	24.2%	19.4%
53	Thailand	24.2%	17.7%
54	Canada	24.1%	21.4%
55	Réunion	24.1%	17.9%
56	Norway	24.0%	19.9%
57	Sweden	23.9%	21.4%
58	Romania	23.9%	20.3%
59	Malta	23.8%	21.4%
60	Slovakia	23.5%	20.1%
61	Ukraine	23.4%	19.9%
62	North Macedonia	23.4%	19.6%
63	Hungary	23.3%	21.4%
64	United Kingdom	23.0%	20.3%
65	Belarus	23.0%	19.7%
66	Wallis and Futuna Islands	22.4%	16.7%
67	Montenegro	22.4%	19.4%
68	Curaçao	22.3%	18.6%
69	New Zealand	22.2%	18.7%
70	Barbados	22.1%	18.4%
71	United States of America	21.9%	19.5%
72	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	21.9%	16.0%
73	Australia	21.8%	19.0%
74	Luxembourg	21.5%	16.8%
75	Anguilla	21.4%	14.3%
76	Gibraltar	21.0%	18.5%
77	French Polynesia	20.9%	13.6%
78	Ireland	20.8%	17.0%
79	Russian Federation	20.8%	19.0%
80	Chile	20.6%	15.7%
81	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	20.4%	16.1%
82	Mauritius	20.3%	15.6%
83	Singapore	20.2%	15.5%
84	Iceland	19.9%	16.8%
85	Faroe Islands	19.9%	18.0%
86	Antigua and Barbuda	19.7%	13.7%
87	Armenia	19.6%	16.2%
88	Uruguay	19.5%	16.9%
89	Cyprus	19.4%	15.7%
90	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	19.4%	13.5%
91	Republic of Moldova	19.3%	18.1%
92	Costa Rica	19.0%	14.1%
93	Turks and Caicos Islands	18.7%	12.9%
94	Georgia	18.6%	16.9%
95	Greenland	18.4%	13.5%
96	Cayman Islands	18.2%	11.0%
97	Guam	17.9%	14.3%
98	Trinidad and Tobago	17.9%	14.4%
99	British Virgin Islands	17.7%	11.5%
100	Bahamas	17.6%	13.0%
101	Palau	17.5%	13.2%
102	New Caledonia	17.4%	12.8%
103	Dominica	17.3%	13.9%
104	Brazil	16.7%	12.6%
105	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	16.6%	13.3%
106	Saint Kitts and Nevis	16.4%	12.8%
107	Sri Lanka	16.3%	13.4%
108	Grenada	16.1%	13.6%
109	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	16.1%	11.6%
110	American Samoa	15.7%	9.9%
111	Colombia	15.5%	11.3%
112	Türkiye	15.5%	11.5%
113	Saint Lucia	15.4%	11.0%
114	Argentina	15.3%	13.2%
115	Niue	15.2%	17.2%
116	Tunisia	15.0%	10.9%
117	Viet Nam	14.9%	10.6%
118	Azerbaijan	14.6%	10.6%
119	Panama	14.2%	10.5%
120	Lebanon	14.2%	11.2%
121	Israel	14.0%	12.9%
122	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	13.7%	9.5%
123	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	13.7%	10.8%
124	Jamaica	13.3%	9.6%
125	Seychelles	13.2%	9.4%
126	Peru	13.0%	10.1%
127	Brunei Darussalam	12.7%	8.2%
128	Mexico	12.6%	9.2%
129	Ecuador	12.3%	9.3%
130	Suriname	12.2%	9.0%
131	Morocco	12.1%	9.3%
132	Kazakhstan	11.9%	9.8%
133	Dominican Republic	11.7%	8.9%
134	Malaysia	11.6%	8.8%
135	Indonesia	11.3%	8.2%
136	Cabo Verde	11.2%	8.0%
137	El Salvador	11.1%	8.8%
138	Tokelau	10.9%	8.7%
139	Algeria	10.8%	7.4%
140	Tuvalu	10.7%	8.0%
141	India	10.5%	8.0%
142	Myanmar	10.4%	8.1%
143	French Guiana	10.2%	7.8%
144	Maldives	10.1%	5.8%
145	Libya	10.0%	5.8%
146	Western Sahara	9.8%	7.3%
147	Guyana	9.7%	7.6%
148	Bhutan	9.5%	7.0%
149	Tonga	9.3%	7.2%
150	Paraguay	9.3%	7.2%
151	Mongolia	9.3%	6.2%
152	Bangladesh	9.2%	7.1%
153	Marshall Islands	9.0%	5.5%
154	Cambodia	8.8%	6.9%
155	South Africa	8.7%	7.3%
156	Kyrgyzstan	8.5%	6.7%
157	Nicaragua	8.5%	6.1%
158	Jordan	8.5%	5.4%
159	Uzbekistan	8.4%	6.6%
160	Philippines	8.4%	6.3%
161	Belize	8.4%	5.8%
162	Turkmenistan	8.3%	5.5%
163	Fiji	8.2%	7.0%
164	Nepal	8.1%	6.9%
165	Samoa	8.0%	6.5%
166	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	7.4%	6.0%
167	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.4%	6.6%
168	Djibouti	7.3%	5.3%
169	Egypt	7.2%	5.7%
170	Lao People's Democratic Republic	6.8%	5.2%
171	Syrian Arab Republic	6.7%	5.1%
172	Guatemala	6.5%	5.2%
173	Honduras	6.5%	4.9%
174	Kiribati	6.2%	4.8%
175	Tajikistan	6.2%	4.6%
176	Bahrain	6.2%	4.5%
177	Haiti	6.1%	5.0%
178	Vanuatu	5.6%	4.6%
179	Timor-Leste	5.6%	5.1%
180	State of Palestine	5.5%	4.1%
181	Botswana	5.5%	4.2%
182	Ghana	5.4%	4.1%
183	Papua New Guinea	5.4%	3.9%
184	Iraq	5.3%	3.7%
185	Eswatini	5.2%	4.5%
186	Gabon	5.2%	4.3%
187	Pakistan	5.2%	4.6%
188	Eritrea	5.1%	4.4%
189	Namibia	5.1%	4.1%
190	Solomon Islands	5.0%	3.8%
191	Comoros	4.9%	4.4%
192	Saudi Arabia	4.9%	3.4%
193	Kuwait	4.8%	3.4%
194	Sao Tome and Principe	4.8%	4.1%
195	Equatorial Guinea	4.8%	4.0%
196	Gambia	4.5%	3.5%
197	South Sudan	4.5%	3.3%
198	Senegal	4.4%	3.7%
199	Nauru	4.4%	3.4%
200	Rwanda	4.4%	4.2%
201	Ethiopia	4.3%	3.5%
202	Congo	4.3%	3.3%
203	Sudan	4.3%	3.6%
204	Madagascar	4.3%	3.6%
205	Mayotte	4.2%	3.0%
206	Kenya	4.1%	3.2%
207	Sierra Leone	4.1%	3.4%
208	Togo	4.1%	3.4%
209	Guinea-Bissau	4.0%	3.3%
210	Guinea	3.9%	3.5%
211	Liberia	3.9%	3.4%
212	Lesotho	3.9%	3.9%
213	Benin	3.8%	3.3%
214	Mauritania	3.7%	3.3%
215	Oman	3.5%	2.8%
216	Nigeria	3.5%	3.1%
217	Angola	3.4%	3.0%
218	Yemen	3.4%	2.6%
219	Cameroon	3.4%	2.9%
220	Côte d'Ivoire	3.4%	2.8%
221	United Republic of Tanzania	3.4%	3.0%
222	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.3%	3.1%
223	Burkina Faso	3.3%	2.8%
224	Zimbabwe	3.1%	3.4%
225	Malawi	3.1%	2.6%
226	Afghanistan	3.0%	2.5%
227	Uganda	3.0%	2.3%
228	Zambia	3.0%	2.1%
229	Somalia	2.9%	2.7%
230	Niger	2.9%	2.7%
231	Burundi	2.9%	2.6%
232	Mozambique	2.8%	2.7%
233	United Arab Emirates	2.7%	1.9%
234	Chad	2.6%	2.2%
235	Mali	2.5%	2.3%
236	Central African Republic	2.3%	2.3%
237	Qatar	1.9%	1.8%

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