Share aged 65+ by country, 2046

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

◀▶2046

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2036
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	41.9%	33.6%
2	Republic of Korea	37.2%	30.0%
3	San Marino	36.8%	32.0%
4	Japan	36.7%	32.8%
5	Martinique	36.2%	35.5%
6	Italy	36.1%	31.5%
7	China, Taiwan Province of China	35.7%	28.7%
8	Puerto Rico	35.2%	31.0%
9	Spain	34.6%	28.2%
10	Bermuda	34.4%	30.0%
11	Andorra	33.9%	25.3%
12	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	33.9%	29.4%
13	Saint Martin (French part)	33.6%	31.9%
14	Guadeloupe	33.5%	32.0%
15	Greece	33.4%	28.8%
16	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	32.7%	23.1%
17	Portugal	32.5%	29.0%
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	32.1%	27.4%
19	Saint Helena	32.0%	32.7%
20	Isle of Man	31.4%	29.2%
21	Slovenia	30.5%	26.7%
22	Monaco	30.2%	34.3%
23	China, Macao SAR	30.2%	23.3%
24	Guernsey	30.0%	27.9%
25	Germany	29.9%	29.1%
26	Austria	29.7%	27.1%
27	Croatia	29.5%	26.9%
28	Liechtenstein	29.5%	27.6%
29	Cuba	29.4%	25.5%
30	Switzerland	29.0%	25.9%
31	Poland	28.7%	23.9%
32	China	28.7%	23.3%
33	Czechia	28.6%	23.7%
34	Estonia	28.1%	25.0%
35	Bulgaria	28.1%	24.5%
36	Slovakia	27.9%	22.7%
37	Thailand	27.9%	23.0%
38	Jersey	27.8%	24.8%
39	Serbia	27.7%	25.2%
40	Cook Islands	27.6%	24.2%
41	Latvia	27.6%	25.4%
42	Lithuania	27.6%	25.1%
43	Malta	27.5%	23.2%
44	Finland	27.4%	26.9%
45	France	27.4%	26.0%
46	Northern Mariana Islands	27.3%	22.7%
47	Belgium	27.1%	25.1%
48	Romania	27.1%	23.1%
49	Hungary	26.9%	22.8%
50	Albania	26.5%	23.7%
51	United States Virgin Islands	26.4%	26.6%
52	Wallis and Futuna Islands	26.3%	20.9%
53	Ukraine	26.2%	23.0%
54	Réunion	26.1%	23.2%
55	Netherlands	26.0%	25.0%
56	North Macedonia	26.0%	22.8%
57	Norway	25.8%	23.2%
58	French Polynesia	25.7%	19.5%
59	Anguilla	25.6%	20.0%
60	Denmark	25.6%	24.3%
61	Saint Barthélemy	25.4%	23.5%
62	Belarus	25.3%	22.4%
63	Montserrat	25.3%	23.6%
64	Aruba	25.1%	23.7%
65	Canada	25.0%	23.8%
66	Sweden	25.0%	23.5%
67	Montenegro	24.9%	21.8%
68	Ireland	24.4%	20.0%
69	Luxembourg	24.4%	20.6%
70	Chile	24.3%	19.7%
71	Singapore	24.1%	19.2%
72	Mauritius	24.1%	19.6%
73	British Virgin Islands	24.1%	16.3%
74	Turks and Caicos Islands	24.0%	17.4%
75	United Kingdom	23.9%	22.5%
76	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	23.6%	21.2%
77	Barbados	23.6%	21.4%
78	Cyprus	23.3%	18.6%
79	Curaçao	23.3%	21.8%
80	New Zealand	23.3%	21.5%
81	Holy See	23.1%	30.4%
82	Cayman Islands	23.0%	16.7%
83	Gibraltar	23.0%	20.6%
84	Australia	22.9%	21.3%
85	Antigua and Barbuda	22.7%	18.7%
86	Costa Rica	22.6%	18.1%
87	United States of America	22.5%	21.6%
88	Russian Federation	22.5%	20.5%
89	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	22.4%	19.8%
90	Iceland	22.3%	19.3%
91	Uruguay	22.2%	19.0%
92	Armenia	21.7%	19.2%
93	Trinidad and Tobago	21.0%	17.3%
94	Faroe Islands	21.0%	19.6%
95	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	20.8%	18.1%
96	New Caledonia	20.2%	16.4%
97	Brazil	20.2%	15.9%
98	Republic of Moldova	20.2%	19.2%
99	Bahamas	20.0%	16.7%
100	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	19.9%	15.2%
101	Türkiye	19.8%	14.7%
102	Georgia	19.7%	18.4%
103	Palau	19.7%	16.8%
104	Sri Lanka	18.8%	15.8%
105	Saint Kitts and Nevis	18.8%	15.7%
106	Colombia	18.6%	14.8%
107	Tunisia	18.5%	14.3%
108	American Samoa	18.5%	14.7%
109	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	18.4%	12.8%
110	Guam	18.4%	17.3%
111	Saint Lucia	18.4%	14.6%
112	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	18.3%	16.1%
113	Argentina	18.2%	14.8%
114	Viet Nam	17.8%	14.0%
115	Grenada	17.6%	15.7%
116	Dominica	17.6%	16.8%
117	Greenland	17.2%	18.5%
118	Panama	17.0%	13.5%
119	Brunei Darussalam	16.9%	11.7%
120	Seychelles	16.8%	12.4%
121	Jamaica	16.7%	12.6%
122	Azerbaijan	16.4%	14.1%
123	Peru	15.9%	12.4%
124	Maldives	15.9%	9.1%
125	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	15.6%	13.2%
126	Lebanon	15.5%	13.8%
127	Mexico	15.4%	11.9%
128	Ecuador	15.3%	11.7%
129	Israel	15.2%	13.7%
130	Niue	15.1%	15.2%
131	Morocco	14.7%	11.5%
132	Malaysia	14.5%	11.0%
133	Algeria	14.1%	10.1%
134	Libya	14.1%	8.9%
135	Cabo Verde	14.0%	10.7%
136	Indonesia	13.8%	10.7%
137	Suriname	13.8%	11.6%
138	Dominican Republic	13.8%	11.2%
139	El Salvador	13.5%	10.6%
140	Bhutan	13.1%	8.9%
141	Kazakhstan	13.0%	11.6%
142	Western Sahara	13.0%	9.2%
143	India	12.9%	9.9%
144	Myanmar	12.3%	10.0%
145	Marshall Islands	11.7%	8.3%
146	Bangladesh	11.5%	8.7%
147	French Guiana	11.5%	9.8%
148	Tokelau	11.4%	11.0%
149	Mongolia	11.4%	8.7%
150	Nicaragua	11.1%	8.0%
151	Belize	11.0%	7.8%
152	Paraguay	10.9%	9.0%
153	Guyana	10.8%	9.3%
154	Jordan	10.8%	7.8%
155	Tonga	10.2%	8.9%
156	Philippines	10.0%	8.0%
157	South Africa	10.0%	8.4%
158	Cambodia	9.9%	8.5%
159	Turkmenistan	9.9%	7.7%
160	Nepal	9.8%	7.8%
161	Uzbekistan	9.5%	8.1%
162	Tuvalu	9.5%	10.7%
163	Kyrgyzstan	9.4%	8.2%
164	Fiji	9.4%	8.1%
165	Djibouti	9.1%	6.8%
166	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	8.9%	7.1%
167	Honduras	8.7%	6.1%
168	Egypt	8.6%	6.9%
169	Lao People's Democratic Republic	8.5%	6.5%
170	Syrian Arab Republic	8.3%	6.3%
171	Guatemala	8.2%	6.2%
172	Samoa	8.2%	7.7%
173	Bahrain	7.6%	5.9%
174	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.6%	7.4%
175	Haiti	7.4%	5.9%
176	Tajikistan	7.0%	6.0%
177	State of Palestine	6.9%	5.3%
178	Saudi Arabia	6.8%	4.5%
179	Botswana	6.8%	5.2%
180	Iraq	6.7%	4.9%
181	Kiribati	6.7%	6.1%
182	Ghana	6.6%	5.2%
183	Papua New Guinea	6.6%	5.1%
184	Gabon	6.4%	5.0%
185	Solomon Islands	6.3%	4.6%
186	Eswatini	6.2%	5.1%
187	Namibia	6.2%	4.8%
188	Timor-Leste	6.2%	5.4%
189	Vanuatu	6.0%	5.3%
190	Kuwait	5.9%	4.5%
191	Comoros	5.9%	4.8%
192	Sao Tome and Principe	5.9%	4.6%
193	Pakistan	5.8%	5.1%
194	Mayotte	5.8%	3.9%
195	Eritrea	5.6%	4.9%
196	Equatorial Guinea	5.6%	4.7%
197	South Sudan	5.6%	4.2%
198	Oman	5.2%	3.3%
199	Senegal	5.2%	4.2%
200	Nauru	5.2%	4.3%
201	Rwanda	5.2%	4.4%
202	Congo	5.1%	4.1%
203	Guinea-Bissau	5.0%	3.8%
204	Kenya	5.0%	3.9%
205	Madagascar	5.0%	4.1%
206	Ethiopia	4.9%	4.1%
207	Gambia	4.9%	4.3%
208	Sierra Leone	4.9%	3.9%
209	Togo	4.9%	3.9%
210	Sudan	4.8%	4.2%
211	Lesotho	4.7%	3.9%
212	Liberia	4.5%	3.8%
213	Yemen	4.4%	3.2%
214	Benin	4.4%	3.7%
215	Mauritania	4.3%	3.6%
216	Cameroon	4.2%	3.3%
217	Guinea	4.2%	3.8%
218	Côte d'Ivoire	4.2%	3.2%
219	Zimbabwe	4.2%	3.1%
220	Nigeria	4.2%	3.4%
221	Zambia	4.1%	2.8%
222	Burkina Faso	4.1%	3.2%
223	United Republic of Tanzania	4.0%	3.2%
224	Malawi	4.0%	2.9%
225	Angola	3.7%	3.3%
226	Uganda	3.7%	2.9%
227	Burundi	3.7%	2.8%
228	Afghanistan	3.6%	2.9%
229	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.4%	3.2%
230	Somalia	3.2%	2.8%
231	Niger	3.2%	2.9%
232	Mozambique	3.2%	2.7%
233	Mali	3.1%	2.4%
234	Chad	3.0%	2.5%
235	United Arab Emirates	2.5%	2.6%
236	Qatar	2.5%	1.8%
237	Central African Republic	2.0%	2.3%

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