Share aged 65+ by country, 2045

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

◀▶2045

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2035
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	41.0%	32.7%
2	San Marino	36.7%	31.3%
3	Japan	36.6%	32.4%
4	Martinique	36.4%	34.9%
5	Republic of Korea	36.4%	29.1%
6	Italy	35.9%	30.9%
7	China, Taiwan Province of China	34.9%	27.9%
8	Puerto Rico	34.7%	30.5%
9	Spain	34.1%	27.5%
10	Bermuda	34.0%	29.4%
11	Saint Martin (French part)	33.7%	31.2%
12	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	33.7%	28.5%
13	Guadeloupe	33.6%	31.6%
14	Andorra	33.3%	24.5%
15	Greece	33.0%	28.3%
16	Saint Helena	32.3%	32.3%
17	Portugal	32.3%	28.6%
18	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	32.0%	21.9%
19	Bosnia and Herzegovina	31.5%	27.2%
20	Isle of Man	31.3%	28.7%
21	Monaco	30.6%	34.5%
22	Slovenia	30.1%	26.4%
23	Guernsey	29.8%	27.4%
24	Germany	29.8%	28.7%
25	China, Macao SAR	29.6%	22.6%
26	Austria	29.5%	26.7%
27	Cuba	29.4%	24.7%
28	Liechtenstein	29.4%	27.1%
29	Croatia	29.2%	26.8%
30	Switzerland	28.7%	25.5%
31	China	28.3%	22.3%
32	Czechia	28.2%	23.4%
33	Poland	28.1%	23.6%
34	Estonia	27.8%	24.6%
35	Bulgaria	27.8%	24.2%
36	Cook Islands	27.7%	23.5%
37	Jersey	27.5%	24.4%
38	Thailand	27.5%	22.4%
39	Serbia	27.4%	25.1%
40	Latvia	27.4%	25.1%
41	Lithuania	27.4%	24.7%
42	Slovakia	27.3%	22.4%
43	Finland	27.3%	26.8%
44	France	27.3%	25.7%
45	Northern Mariana Islands	27.2%	21.7%
46	Belgium	27.0%	24.8%
47	Malta	27.0%	23.0%
48	Romania	26.8%	22.7%
49	Hungary	26.6%	22.5%
50	United States Virgin Islands	26.5%	26.5%
51	Albania	26.3%	23.2%
52	Wallis and Futuna Islands	25.9%	20.4%
53	Netherlands	25.9%	24.6%
54	Réunion	25.9%	22.8%
55	Ukraine	25.7%	22.5%
56	North Macedonia	25.7%	22.5%
57	Denmark	25.6%	24.1%
58	Norway	25.6%	22.8%
59	Saint Barthélemy	25.3%	23.1%
60	Montserrat	25.3%	23.6%
61	Anguilla	25.2%	19.3%
62	Aruba	25.1%	23.4%
63	French Polynesia	25.1%	18.8%
64	Belarus	25.0%	22.1%
65	Canada	24.8%	23.6%
66	Sweden	24.8%	23.3%
67	Montenegro	24.6%	21.6%
68	Luxembourg	24.0%	20.2%
69	Ireland	23.9%	19.5%
70	Chile	23.9%	19.2%
71	United Kingdom	23.8%	22.3%
72	Mauritius	23.6%	19.3%
73	Singapore	23.5%	18.8%
74	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	23.5%	20.7%
75	Barbados	23.5%	21.1%
76	Turks and Caicos Islands	23.4%	16.7%
77	Curaçao	23.2%	21.6%
78	New Zealand	23.2%	21.2%
79	British Virgin Islands	23.2%	15.6%
80	Holy See	23.1%	31.0%
81	Australia	22.8%	21.0%
82	Gibraltar	22.8%	20.4%
83	Cyprus	22.7%	18.2%
84	Cayman Islands	22.5%	16.0%
85	United States of America	22.4%	21.4%
86	Antigua and Barbuda	22.4%	18.1%
87	Russian Federation	22.2%	20.3%
88	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	22.1%	19.5%
89	Costa Rica	22.1%	17.7%
90	Iceland	22.0%	19.0%
91	Uruguay	22.0%	18.7%
92	Armenia	21.3%	19.0%
93	Faroe Islands	20.9%	19.5%
94	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	20.8%	17.5%
95	Trinidad and Tobago	20.4%	17.0%
96	Republic of Moldova	20.0%	19.2%
97	New Caledonia	19.9%	15.9%
98	Bahamas	19.7%	16.3%
99	Brazil	19.7%	15.5%
100	Palau	19.6%	16.4%
101	Georgia	19.5%	18.2%
102	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	19.4%	14.7%
103	Türkiye	19.2%	14.4%
104	Guam	18.4%	17.1%
105	Sri Lanka	18.4%	15.5%
106	Saint Kitts and Nevis	18.4%	15.4%
107	American Samoa	18.3%	14.1%
108	Colombia	18.2%	14.4%
109	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	18.1%	15.8%
110	Saint Lucia	18.1%	14.2%
111	Tunisia	17.9%	13.9%
112	Argentina	17.8%	14.5%
113	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	17.7%	12.3%
114	Dominica	17.5%	16.5%
115	Viet Nam	17.4%	13.6%
116	Greenland	17.3%	18.3%
117	Grenada	17.3%	15.5%
118	Panama	16.6%	13.1%
119	Brunei Darussalam	16.4%	11.1%
120	Seychelles	16.3%	12.1%
121	Jamaica	16.2%	12.2%
122	Azerbaijan	16.1%	13.8%
123	Peru	15.6%	12.0%
124	Lebanon	15.4%	13.5%
125	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	15.3%	12.9%
126	Israel	15.0%	13.6%
127	Mexico	15.0%	11.5%
128	Ecuador	14.9%	11.3%
129	Maldives	14.9%	8.6%
130	Niue	14.6%	15.6%
131	Morocco	14.4%	11.3%
132	Malaysia	14.0%	10.8%
133	Algeria	13.6%	9.7%
134	Suriname	13.6%	11.3%
135	Dominican Republic	13.6%	10.9%
136	Libya	13.6%	8.4%
137	Indonesia	13.5%	10.4%
138	Cabo Verde	13.5%	10.4%
139	El Salvador	13.2%	10.3%
140	Kazakhstan	12.9%	11.4%
141	India	12.6%	9.7%
142	Bhutan	12.5%	8.7%
143	Western Sahara	12.5%	8.9%
144	Myanmar	12.1%	9.7%
145	Marshall Islands	11.3%	7.9%
146	French Guiana	11.3%	9.5%
147	Tokelau	11.2%	10.8%
148	Bangladesh	11.1%	8.5%
149	Mongolia	11.1%	8.4%
150	Nicaragua	10.8%	7.7%
151	Guyana	10.7%	9.1%
152	Paraguay	10.7%	8.8%
153	Belize	10.7%	7.5%
154	Jordan	10.5%	7.5%
155	Tonga	10.1%	8.7%
156	Tuvalu	9.8%	10.5%
157	Philippines	9.8%	7.8%
158	South Africa	9.8%	8.3%
159	Turkmenistan	9.7%	7.5%
160	Cambodia	9.6%	8.3%
161	Nepal	9.6%	7.6%
162	Uzbekistan	9.3%	7.9%
163	Kyrgyzstan	9.2%	8.1%
164	Fiji	9.2%	8.0%
165	Djibouti	8.9%	6.6%
166	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	8.7%	6.9%
167	Egypt	8.4%	6.7%
168	Honduras	8.4%	5.9%
169	Lao People's Democratic Republic	8.3%	6.3%
170	Samoa	8.2%	7.6%
171	Syrian Arab Republic	8.1%	6.2%
172	Guatemala	7.9%	6.1%
173	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.5%	7.4%
174	Bahrain	7.4%	5.8%
175	Haiti	7.2%	5.7%
176	Tajikistan	6.9%	5.8%
177	State of Palestine	6.7%	5.1%
178	Kiribati	6.6%	6.0%
179	Botswana	6.6%	5.1%
180	Iraq	6.5%	4.8%
181	Ghana	6.5%	5.0%
182	Saudi Arabia	6.5%	4.4%
183	Papua New Guinea	6.5%	5.0%
184	Gabon	6.2%	4.9%
185	Solomon Islands	6.1%	4.5%
186	Timor-Leste	6.1%	5.3%
187	Eswatini	6.0%	5.0%
188	Namibia	6.0%	4.7%
189	Vanuatu	5.9%	5.2%
190	Kuwait	5.8%	4.4%
191	Comoros	5.8%	4.7%
192	Sao Tome and Principe	5.8%	4.5%
193	Pakistan	5.7%	5.0%
194	Eritrea	5.6%	4.9%
195	Mayotte	5.6%	3.9%
196	Equatorial Guinea	5.5%	4.6%
197	South Sudan	5.5%	4.0%
198	Senegal	5.1%	4.1%
199	Congo	5.0%	4.0%
200	Nauru	5.0%	4.2%
201	Rwanda	5.0%	4.3%
202	Ethiopia	4.9%	4.0%
203	Oman	4.9%	3.2%
204	Guinea-Bissau	4.9%	3.7%
205	Kenya	4.9%	3.8%
206	Madagascar	4.9%	4.0%
207	Gambia	4.8%	4.3%
208	Sierra Leone	4.8%	3.9%
209	Sudan	4.8%	4.1%
210	Togo	4.8%	3.9%
211	Lesotho	4.5%	3.9%
212	Liberia	4.4%	3.7%
213	Benin	4.3%	3.7%
214	Yemen	4.2%	3.1%
215	Mauritania	4.2%	3.6%
216	Cameroon	4.1%	3.2%
217	Guinea	4.1%	3.8%
218	Côte d'Ivoire	4.1%	3.2%
219	Nigeria	4.1%	3.4%
220	Zambia	4.0%	2.7%
221	Zimbabwe	4.0%	3.1%
222	Burkina Faso	4.0%	3.1%
223	United Republic of Tanzania	3.9%	3.2%
224	Malawi	3.8%	2.9%
225	Angola	3.7%	3.3%
226	Afghanistan	3.6%	2.8%
227	Uganda	3.6%	2.8%
228	Burundi	3.6%	2.7%
229	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.3%	3.2%
230	Somalia	3.2%	2.8%
231	Niger	3.2%	2.8%
232	Mozambique	3.1%	2.6%
233	Chad	3.0%	2.4%
234	Mali	3.0%	2.4%
235	United Arab Emirates	2.5%	2.6%
236	Qatar	2.3%	1.8%
237	Central African Republic	2.0%	2.3%

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