Share aged 65+ by country, 2041

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

◀▶2041

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2031
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	37.8%	29.3%
2	Martinique	37.2%	31.9%
3	Japan	35.4%	31.2%
4	San Marino	35.2%	27.7%
5	Italy	34.4%	28.3%
6	Saint Martin (French part)	34.1%	27.0%
7	Republic of Korea	34.1%	25.5%
8	Guadeloupe	33.9%	29.1%
9	Saint Helena	33.5%	30.1%
10	Puerto Rico	33.1%	28.5%
11	Bermuda	32.5%	27.0%
12	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	32.4%	24.7%
13	Monaco	32.4%	35.0%
14	China, Taiwan Province of China	31.8%	24.8%
15	Spain	31.5%	24.9%
16	Greece	31.1%	26.2%
17	Portugal	31.0%	27.2%
18	Isle of Man	30.8%	26.7%
19	Andorra	30.1%	20.9%
20	Germany	29.6%	26.7%
21	Guernsey	29.4%	25.2%
22	Bosnia and Herzegovina	29.2%	25.9%
23	Liechtenstein	29.0%	24.9%
24	Austria	28.7%	24.3%
25	Cuba	28.7%	21.4%
26	Slovenia	28.5%	24.8%
27	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	28.4%	17.7%
28	Croatia	28.1%	25.6%
29	Switzerland	27.6%	23.4%
30	China, Macao SAR	27.5%	20.0%
31	Cook Islands	27.0%	20.1%
32	France	27.0%	24.6%
33	Finland	26.9%	26.0%
34	China	26.9%	18.8%
35	United States Virgin Islands	26.8%	25.4%
36	Latvia	26.7%	24.1%
37	Lithuania	26.7%	23.3%
38	Estonia	26.6%	23.6%
39	Jersey	26.5%	22.1%
40	Serbia	26.3%	24.4%
41	Bulgaria	26.3%	23.3%
42	Belgium	26.3%	23.3%
43	Czechia	26.2%	22.6%
44	Northern Mariana Islands	26.1%	17.0%
45	Poland	25.9%	22.6%
46	Netherlands	25.8%	23.2%
47	Thailand	25.8%	19.7%
48	Albania	25.4%	21.1%
49	Denmark	25.3%	22.9%
50	Slovakia	25.1%	21.3%
51	Romania	25.1%	20.4%
52	Réunion	25.1%	20.2%
53	Saint Barthélemy	25.0%	21.0%
54	Malta	25.0%	22.2%
55	Holy See	24.9%	34.9%
56	Aruba	24.8%	21.4%
57	Norway	24.8%	21.1%
58	Hungary	24.8%	21.6%
59	Montserrat	24.6%	21.8%
60	Canada	24.4%	22.7%
61	Sweden	24.4%	22.3%
62	North Macedonia	24.4%	21.0%
63	Wallis and Futuna Islands	24.2%	18.2%
64	Ukraine	24.2%	21.3%
65	Belarus	23.8%	21.0%
66	United Kingdom	23.5%	21.1%
67	Anguilla	23.3%	16.4%
68	Montenegro	23.2%	20.4%
69	Curaçao	22.9%	20.1%
70	Barbados	22.9%	19.7%
71	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	22.8%	18.3%
72	French Polynesia	22.8%	15.8%
73	New Zealand	22.7%	19.9%
74	Luxembourg	22.5%	18.2%
75	Australia	22.3%	19.9%
76	Ireland	22.1%	18.1%
77	United States of America	22.0%	20.5%
78	Chile	22.0%	17.2%
79	Gibraltar	21.8%	19.4%
80	Singapore	21.6%	17.1%
81	Mauritius	21.4%	17.4%
82	Russian Federation	21.4%	19.9%
83	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	21.1%	17.7%
84	Antigua and Barbuda	20.9%	15.6%
85	Iceland	20.8%	17.8%
86	Turks and Caicos Islands	20.7%	14.4%
87	Cyprus	20.6%	16.7%
88	Uruguay	20.5%	17.7%
89	Faroe Islands	20.4%	18.6%
90	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	20.4%	14.9%
91	Armenia	20.2%	17.8%
92	Costa Rica	20.2%	15.7%
93	Cayman Islands	20.1%	13.1%
94	British Virgin Islands	19.8%	13.1%
95	Republic of Moldova	19.6%	18.8%
96	Georgia	19.0%	17.7%
97	Trinidad and Tobago	18.8%	15.8%
98	New Caledonia	18.6%	14.0%
99	Bahamas	18.6%	14.4%
100	Palau	18.6%	14.6%
101	Guam	18.3%	15.6%
102	Brazil	17.9%	13.9%
103	Greenland	17.8%	15.9%
104	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	17.6%	12.9%
105	Dominica	17.6%	15.0%
106	Saint Kitts and Nevis	17.3%	14.1%
107	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	17.2%	14.6%
108	Sri Lanka	17.0%	14.3%
109	American Samoa	17.0%	11.7%
110	Türkiye	16.9%	12.9%
111	Grenada	16.6%	14.6%
112	Colombia	16.6%	12.7%
113	Saint Lucia	16.6%	12.3%
114	Tunisia	16.3%	12.4%
115	Argentina	16.2%	13.8%
116	Viet Nam	15.9%	12.0%
117	Panama	15.3%	11.6%
118	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	15.2%	10.6%
119	Azerbaijan	15.1%	12.2%
120	Niue	14.8%	17.0%
121	Lebanon	14.7%	12.2%
122	Jamaica	14.6%	10.8%
123	Israel	14.5%	13.2%
124	Seychelles	14.5%	10.5%
125	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	14.4%	11.8%
126	Brunei Darussalam	14.3%	9.3%
127	Peru	14.1%	10.8%
128	Mexico	13.7%	10.2%
129	Ecuador	13.4%	10.1%
130	Morocco	13.0%	10.1%
131	Suriname	12.9%	10.1%
132	Dominican Republic	12.5%	9.8%
133	Malaysia	12.5%	9.7%
134	Kazakhstan	12.4%	10.6%
135	Indonesia	12.3%	9.1%
136	El Salvador	12.0%	9.4%
137	Cabo Verde	12.0%	9.0%
138	Algeria	11.9%	8.3%
139	Maldives	11.9%	6.9%
140	Libya	11.5%	6.8%
141	India	11.3%	8.7%
142	Myanmar	11.1%	8.8%
143	Tokelau	10.8%	9.7%
144	French Guiana	10.8%	8.6%
145	Western Sahara	10.7%	7.9%
146	Tuvalu	10.6%	9.0%
147	Bhutan	10.5%	7.6%
148	Guyana	10.2%	8.3%
149	Mongolia	10.1%	7.2%
150	Bangladesh	10.0%	7.6%
151	Marshall Islands	10.0%	6.6%
152	Paraguay	9.9%	7.9%
153	Tonga	9.7%	7.6%
154	Nicaragua	9.4%	6.7%
155	Jordan	9.4%	6.2%
156	Belize	9.3%	6.5%
157	South Africa	9.1%	7.8%
158	Turkmenistan	9.0%	6.3%
159	Cambodia	8.9%	7.6%
160	Philippines	8.9%	6.9%
161	Uzbekistan	8.8%	7.3%
162	Kyrgyzstan	8.8%	7.4%
163	Nepal	8.7%	7.2%
164	Fiji	8.4%	7.5%
165	Samoa	8.2%	7.0%
166	Djibouti	8.0%	5.8%
167	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	7.9%	6.4%
168	Egypt	7.6%	6.1%
169	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.5%	7.0%
170	Lao People's Democratic Republic	7.4%	5.7%
171	Syrian Arab Republic	7.3%	5.5%
172	Honduras	7.2%	5.3%
173	Guatemala	7.0%	5.6%
174	Bahrain	6.7%	5.1%
175	Haiti	6.6%	5.3%
176	Tajikistan	6.5%	5.2%
177	Kiribati	6.3%	5.4%
178	State of Palestine	6.0%	4.6%
179	Timor-Leste	6.0%	5.1%
180	Vanuatu	5.9%	4.9%
181	Papua New Guinea	5.9%	4.4%
182	Botswana	5.9%	4.5%
183	Iraq	5.8%	4.1%
184	Ghana	5.8%	4.5%
185	Gabon	5.6%	4.5%
186	Solomon Islands	5.5%	4.0%
187	Namibia	5.5%	4.4%
188	Eswatini	5.4%	4.7%
189	Saudi Arabia	5.4%	3.8%
190	Pakistan	5.4%	4.8%
191	Eritrea	5.3%	4.6%
192	Kuwait	5.2%	3.8%
193	Comoros	5.2%	4.5%
194	Sao Tome and Principe	5.1%	4.3%
195	Equatorial Guinea	5.1%	4.3%
196	South Sudan	4.9%	3.6%
197	Mayotte	4.8%	3.4%
198	Gambia	4.6%	3.8%
199	Congo	4.6%	3.6%
200	Senegal	4.6%	3.9%
201	Ethiopia	4.5%	3.7%
202	Sudan	4.5%	3.8%
203	Nauru	4.5%	3.8%
204	Madagascar	4.5%	3.8%
205	Rwanda	4.5%	4.2%
206	Kenya	4.4%	3.4%
207	Sierra Leone	4.4%	3.6%
208	Togo	4.4%	3.6%
209	Guinea-Bissau	4.3%	3.4%
210	Liberia	4.1%	3.5%
211	Oman	4.0%	3.0%
212	Guinea	4.0%	3.6%
213	Benin	4.0%	3.4%
214	Lesotho	4.0%	3.9%
215	Mauritania	3.9%	3.4%
216	Yemen	3.7%	2.8%
217	Cameroon	3.7%	3.0%
218	Nigeria	3.7%	3.2%
219	Côte d'Ivoire	3.6%	2.9%
220	United Republic of Tanzania	3.6%	3.0%
221	Angola	3.5%	3.1%
222	Burkina Faso	3.5%	2.9%
223	Zambia	3.4%	2.4%
224	Uganda	3.3%	2.5%
225	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.3%	3.2%
226	Zimbabwe	3.3%	3.2%
227	Malawi	3.3%	2.7%
228	Afghanistan	3.2%	2.6%
229	Burundi	3.1%	2.6%
230	Somalia	3.0%	2.7%
231	Niger	3.0%	2.7%
232	Mozambique	2.9%	2.6%
233	Chad	2.8%	2.3%
234	Mali	2.7%	2.3%
235	United Arab Emirates	2.6%	2.3%
236	Central African Republic	2.2%	2.3%
237	Qatar	2.0%	1.8%

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