Share aged 65+ by country, 2043

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

◀▶2043

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2033
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	39.4%	31.0%
2	Martinique	36.8%	33.6%
3	San Marino	36.1%	29.6%
4	Japan	36.1%	31.6%
5	Italy	35.3%	29.6%
6	Republic of Korea	35.2%	27.1%
7	Saint Martin (French part)	34.0%	29.3%
8	Guadeloupe	33.9%	30.5%
9	Puerto Rico	33.9%	29.5%
10	Bermuda	33.4%	28.3%
11	China, Taiwan Province of China	33.3%	26.4%
12	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	33.2%	26.5%
13	Saint Helena	33.1%	31.2%
14	Spain	32.9%	26.2%
15	Greece	32.1%	27.2%
16	Andorra	31.8%	22.6%
17	Portugal	31.8%	28.0%
18	Monaco	31.4%	35.0%
19	Isle of Man	31.0%	27.7%
20	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	30.4%	19.6%
21	Bosnia and Herzegovina	30.3%	26.7%
22	Germany	29.7%	27.8%
23	Guernsey	29.6%	26.3%
24	Cuba	29.3%	23.1%
25	Slovenia	29.3%	25.7%
26	Liechtenstein	29.3%	26.0%
27	Austria	29.1%	25.5%
28	Croatia	28.6%	26.3%
29	China, Macao SAR	28.5%	21.2%
30	Switzerland	28.2%	24.5%
31	China	27.6%	20.4%
32	Cook Islands	27.4%	21.9%
33	Czechia	27.3%	23.0%
34	Estonia	27.2%	24.0%
35	Finland	27.1%	26.5%
36	France	27.1%	25.2%
37	Bulgaria	27.1%	23.5%
38	Latvia	27.1%	24.6%
39	Lithuania	27.1%	24.0%
40	Jersey	27.0%	23.3%
41	Poland	26.9%	23.1%
42	Serbia	26.8%	24.7%
43	Northern Mariana Islands	26.8%	19.4%
44	Thailand	26.7%	21.1%
45	Belgium	26.6%	24.1%
46	United States Virgin Islands	26.6%	26.0%
47	Slovakia	26.2%	21.9%
48	Romania	26.0%	21.2%
49	Albania	25.9%	22.2%
50	Malta	25.9%	22.6%
51	Netherlands	25.8%	23.9%
52	Hungary	25.8%	21.9%
53	Denmark	25.5%	23.7%
54	Réunion	25.5%	21.6%
55	Wallis and Futuna Islands	25.2%	19.0%
56	Saint Barthélemy	25.2%	22.1%
57	Norway	25.2%	22.0%
58	Aruba	25.0%	22.5%
59	North Macedonia	25.0%	21.8%
60	Ukraine	24.9%	21.9%
61	Montserrat	24.9%	22.9%
62	Canada	24.6%	23.2%
63	Sweden	24.6%	22.9%
64	Belarus	24.4%	21.6%
65	Anguilla	24.3%	17.9%
66	French Polynesia	24.0%	17.3%
67	Montenegro	23.9%	21.1%
68	Holy See	23.7%	32.8%
69	United Kingdom	23.6%	21.7%
70	Luxembourg	23.3%	19.2%
71	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	23.2%	19.6%
72	Barbados	23.2%	20.5%
73	Curaçao	23.1%	20.9%
74	Ireland	22.9%	18.8%
75	Chile	22.9%	18.2%
76	New Zealand	22.9%	20.5%
77	Australia	22.6%	20.4%
78	Singapore	22.6%	18.0%
79	Mauritius	22.4%	18.5%
80	Gibraltar	22.3%	20.0%
81	United States of America	22.2%	21.0%
82	Turks and Caicos Islands	22.0%	15.5%
83	Antigua and Barbuda	21.7%	16.9%
84	Russian Federation	21.7%	20.1%
85	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	21.6%	18.7%
86	Cyprus	21.6%	17.4%
87	British Virgin Islands	21.4%	14.3%
88	Iceland	21.3%	18.5%
89	Uruguay	21.3%	18.2%
90	Cayman Islands	21.3%	14.5%
91	Costa Rica	21.2%	16.8%
92	Armenia	20.7%	18.4%
93	Faroe Islands	20.7%	19.2%
94	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	20.6%	16.1%
95	Republic of Moldova	19.8%	19.0%
96	Trinidad and Tobago	19.5%	16.5%
97	New Caledonia	19.3%	14.9%
98	Georgia	19.2%	18.0%
99	Bahamas	19.2%	15.4%
100	Palau	19.1%	15.6%
101	Brazil	18.8%	14.7%
102	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	18.6%	13.8%
103	Guam	18.4%	16.4%
104	Türkiye	18.0%	13.7%
105	Saint Kitts and Nevis	17.8%	14.8%
106	Sri Lanka	17.7%	14.9%
107	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	17.7%	15.3%
108	American Samoa	17.7%	12.9%
109	Dominica	17.5%	15.7%
110	Greenland	17.4%	17.4%
111	Colombia	17.4%	13.6%
112	Saint Lucia	17.3%	13.3%
113	Tunisia	17.1%	13.1%
114	Argentina	17.0%	14.1%
115	Grenada	16.9%	15.1%
116	Viet Nam	16.6%	12.8%
117	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	16.3%	11.4%
118	Panama	16.0%	12.3%
119	Azerbaijan	15.6%	13.0%
120	Jamaica	15.4%	11.5%
121	Seychelles	15.3%	11.3%
122	Brunei Darussalam	15.3%	10.2%
123	Niue	15.0%	16.6%
124	Lebanon	15.0%	12.9%
125	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	14.9%	12.4%
126	Israel	14.8%	13.4%
127	Peru	14.8%	11.4%
128	Mexico	14.4%	10.9%
129	Ecuador	14.1%	10.7%
130	Morocco	13.7%	10.7%
131	Maldives	13.3%	7.6%
132	Suriname	13.2%	10.7%
133	Malaysia	13.2%	10.2%
134	Dominican Republic	13.1%	10.4%
135	Indonesia	12.9%	9.7%
136	Algeria	12.7%	9.0%
137	Cabo Verde	12.7%	9.7%
138	El Salvador	12.6%	9.9%
139	Kazakhstan	12.6%	11.1%
140	Libya	12.6%	7.5%
141	India	11.9%	9.2%
142	Myanmar	11.6%	9.3%
143	Western Sahara	11.5%	8.4%
144	Bhutan	11.4%	8.1%
145	French Guiana	11.0%	9.1%
146	Tokelau	10.9%	10.4%
147	Marshall Islands	10.6%	7.2%
148	Mongolia	10.6%	7.8%
149	Guyana	10.5%	8.7%
150	Bangladesh	10.5%	8.0%
151	Tuvalu	10.2%	9.8%
152	Paraguay	10.2%	8.4%
153	Nicaragua	10.1%	7.2%
154	Belize	10.0%	7.0%
155	Tonga	9.9%	8.1%
156	Jordan	9.9%	6.8%
157	Turkmenistan	9.4%	6.9%
158	South Africa	9.4%	8.1%
159	Philippines	9.3%	7.4%
160	Uzbekistan	9.1%	7.6%
161	Cambodia	9.1%	8.0%
162	Nepal	9.1%	7.3%
163	Kyrgyzstan	9.0%	7.7%
164	Fiji	8.7%	7.8%
165	Djibouti	8.4%	6.2%
166	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	8.3%	6.7%
167	Samoa	8.2%	7.3%
168	Egypt	8.0%	6.4%
169	Honduras	7.8%	5.6%
170	Lao People's Democratic Republic	7.8%	6.0%
171	Syrian Arab Republic	7.7%	5.8%
172	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.5%	7.2%
173	Guatemala	7.4%	5.8%
174	Bahrain	7.0%	5.4%
175	Haiti	6.9%	5.5%
176	Tajikistan	6.7%	5.5%
177	Kiribati	6.4%	5.8%
178	State of Palestine	6.3%	4.8%
179	Iraq	6.2%	4.4%
180	Papua New Guinea	6.2%	4.7%
181	Botswana	6.2%	4.8%
182	Ghana	6.1%	4.8%
183	Vanuatu	6.0%	5.1%
184	Timor-Leste	6.0%	5.2%
185	Gabon	5.9%	4.7%
186	Saudi Arabia	5.9%	4.1%
187	Solomon Islands	5.8%	4.3%
188	Eswatini	5.7%	4.8%
189	Namibia	5.7%	4.5%
190	Kuwait	5.5%	4.1%
191	Comoros	5.5%	4.6%
192	Pakistan	5.5%	4.9%
193	Eritrea	5.4%	4.7%
194	Sao Tome and Principe	5.4%	4.4%
195	Equatorial Guinea	5.3%	4.5%
196	Mayotte	5.2%	3.6%
197	South Sudan	5.2%	3.8%
198	Senegal	4.9%	4.0%
199	Congo	4.8%	3.8%
200	Ethiopia	4.7%	3.9%
201	Gambia	4.7%	4.1%
202	Kenya	4.7%	3.6%
203	Nauru	4.7%	4.1%
204	Madagascar	4.7%	3.9%
205	Rwanda	4.7%	4.3%
206	Guinea-Bissau	4.6%	3.5%
207	Sierra Leone	4.6%	3.7%
208	Sudan	4.6%	4.0%
209	Togo	4.6%	3.7%
210	Oman	4.4%	3.1%
211	Liberia	4.2%	3.6%
212	Lesotho	4.2%	3.9%
213	Benin	4.1%	3.5%
214	Guinea	4.0%	3.7%
215	Mauritania	4.0%	3.5%
216	Yemen	3.9%	2.9%
217	Cameroon	3.9%	3.1%
218	Nigeria	3.9%	3.3%
219	Côte d'Ivoire	3.8%	3.0%
220	United Republic of Tanzania	3.8%	3.1%
221	Zambia	3.7%	2.5%
222	Burkina Faso	3.7%	3.0%
223	Angola	3.6%	3.2%
224	Zimbabwe	3.6%	3.1%
225	Malawi	3.5%	2.8%
226	Afghanistan	3.4%	2.7%
227	Uganda	3.4%	2.6%
228	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.3%	3.2%
229	Burundi	3.3%	2.7%
230	Somalia	3.1%	2.8%
231	Niger	3.1%	2.8%
232	Mozambique	3.0%	2.6%
233	Chad	2.9%	2.3%
234	Mali	2.8%	2.3%
235	United Arab Emirates	2.6%	2.6%
236	Qatar	2.1%	1.8%
237	Central African Republic	2.1%	2.3%

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