Share aged 65+ by country, 2047

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

◀▶2047

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2037
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	42.8%	34.5%
2	Republic of Korea	37.8%	30.9%
3	Japan	36.9%	33.3%
4	San Marino	36.8%	32.7%
5	China, Taiwan Province of China	36.5%	29.4%
6	Italy	36.3%	32.2%
7	Martinique	36.0%	36.1%
8	Puerto Rico	35.5%	31.4%
9	Spain	35.0%	28.8%
10	Bermuda	34.8%	30.7%
11	Andorra	34.7%	26.2%
12	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	34.4%	30.1%
13	Greece	33.8%	29.3%
14	Saint Martin (French part)	33.5%	32.6%
15	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	33.5%	24.4%
16	Guadeloupe	33.4%	32.6%
17	Portugal	32.7%	29.4%
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	32.5%	27.7%
19	Saint Helena	32.0%	33.1%
20	Isle of Man	31.5%	29.6%
21	Slovenia	30.9%	27.1%
22	China, Macao SAR	30.9%	24.0%
23	Guernsey	30.1%	28.3%
24	Austria	30.0%	27.5%
25	Germany	30.0%	29.3%
26	Monaco	29.8%	33.9%
27	Croatia	29.7%	27.2%
28	Liechtenstein	29.5%	28.0%
29	Cuba	29.4%	26.3%
30	Switzerland	29.3%	26.4%
31	Poland	29.3%	24.2%
32	China	29.1%	24.1%
33	Czechia	28.8%	24.0%
34	Estonia	28.4%	25.3%
35	Bulgaria	28.4%	24.8%
36	Slovakia	28.3%	23.1%
37	Thailand	28.3%	23.7%
38	Jersey	28.1%	25.3%
39	Malta	28.1%	23.5%
40	Serbia	28.0%	25.4%
41	Latvia	27.8%	25.7%
42	Cook Islands	27.7%	24.9%
43	Lithuania	27.7%	25.5%
44	Finland	27.5%	26.9%
45	France	27.4%	26.2%
46	Romania	27.4%	23.5%
47	Belgium	27.3%	25.4%
48	Northern Mariana Islands	27.3%	23.6%
49	Hungary	27.1%	23.0%
50	Albania	26.7%	24.1%
51	Ukraine	26.7%	23.2%
52	Wallis and Futuna Islands	26.6%	21.7%
53	North Macedonia	26.4%	23.1%
54	Réunion	26.3%	23.7%
55	French Polynesia	26.3%	20.2%
56	United States Virgin Islands	26.3%	26.8%
57	Anguilla	26.2%	20.7%
58	Netherlands	26.0%	25.3%
59	Norway	26.0%	23.6%
60	Belarus	25.7%	22.7%
61	Saint Barthélemy	25.6%	23.9%
62	Denmark	25.6%	24.5%
63	Montenegro	25.3%	22.1%
64	Aruba	25.1%	24.0%
65	Canada	25.1%	24.0%
66	Sweden	25.1%	23.7%
67	Montserrat	25.1%	23.9%
68	British Virgin Islands	25.1%	17.0%
69	Ireland	24.9%	20.4%
70	Chile	24.8%	20.1%
71	Turks and Caicos Islands	24.7%	18.0%
72	Mauritius	24.7%	19.9%
73	Luxembourg	24.7%	21.0%
74	Singapore	24.6%	19.7%
75	United Kingdom	24.1%	22.8%
76	Cyprus	24.0%	19.0%
77	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	23.7%	21.6%
78	Barbados	23.7%	21.8%
79	Cayman Islands	23.6%	17.5%
80	Curaçao	23.4%	22.1%
81	New Zealand	23.4%	21.9%
82	Gibraltar	23.3%	20.8%
83	Costa Rica	23.2%	18.6%
84	Holy See	23.2%	29.1%
85	Antigua and Barbuda	23.1%	19.2%
86	Australia	23.1%	21.6%
87	Iceland	22.7%	19.5%
88	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	22.7%	20.1%
89	United States of America	22.6%	21.8%
90	Russian Federation	22.6%	20.6%
91	Uruguay	22.5%	19.2%
92	Armenia	22.2%	19.4%
93	Trinidad and Tobago	21.6%	17.6%
94	Faroe Islands	21.1%	19.8%
95	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	21.0%	18.7%
96	Brazil	20.7%	16.3%
97	New Caledonia	20.5%	16.9%
98	Türkiye	20.4%	15.1%
99	Republic of Moldova	20.4%	19.3%
100	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	20.3%	15.6%
101	Bahamas	20.2%	17.2%
102	Georgia	19.9%	18.5%
103	Palau	19.9%	17.2%
104	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	19.3%	13.3%
105	Sri Lanka	19.2%	16.1%
106	Saint Kitts and Nevis	19.1%	16.1%
107	Colombia	19.0%	15.1%
108	Tunisia	18.9%	14.6%
109	Saint Lucia	18.8%	15.0%
110	American Samoa	18.7%	15.2%
111	Argentina	18.6%	15.0%
112	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	18.5%	16.4%
113	Guam	18.4%	17.6%
114	Viet Nam	18.1%	14.5%
115	Grenada	18.0%	15.9%
116	Dominica	17.7%	17.1%
117	Brunei Darussalam	17.5%	12.2%
118	Greenland	17.3%	18.5%
119	Seychelles	17.3%	12.9%
120	Panama	17.3%	13.9%
121	Jamaica	17.2%	13.0%
122	Maldives	16.9%	9.6%
123	Azerbaijan	16.7%	14.4%
124	Peru	16.3%	12.7%
125	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	15.8%	13.5%
126	Ecuador	15.7%	12.0%
127	Mexico	15.7%	12.3%
128	Lebanon	15.7%	14.0%
129	Israel	15.3%	13.9%
130	Morocco	15.1%	11.8%
131	Malaysia	15.0%	11.3%
132	Libya	14.6%	9.4%
133	Algeria	14.5%	10.4%
134	Cabo Verde	14.5%	10.9%
135	Niue	14.3%	15.2%
136	Indonesia	14.1%	11.0%
137	Dominican Republic	14.1%	11.5%
138	Suriname	14.0%	11.9%
139	El Salvador	13.8%	10.9%
140	Bhutan	13.7%	9.2%
141	Western Sahara	13.6%	9.5%
142	India	13.3%	10.2%
143	Kazakhstan	13.1%	11.8%
144	Myanmar	12.6%	10.2%
145	Marshall Islands	12.0%	8.7%
146	Bangladesh	11.9%	8.9%
147	Tokelau	11.8%	11.0%
148	French Guiana	11.7%	10.0%
149	Mongolia	11.6%	9.0%
150	Nicaragua	11.5%	8.2%
151	Belize	11.4%	8.1%
152	Paraguay	11.2%	9.2%
153	Jordan	11.1%	8.1%
154	Guyana	10.9%	9.5%
155	Cambodia	10.3%	8.6%
156	Tonga	10.3%	9.2%
157	Philippines	10.3%	8.2%
158	South Africa	10.3%	8.6%
159	Nepal	10.1%	8.0%
160	Turkmenistan	10.0%	8.0%
161	Uzbekistan	9.6%	8.2%
162	Fiji	9.6%	8.2%
163	Kyrgyzstan	9.5%	8.4%
164	Djibouti	9.3%	7.0%
165	Tuvalu	9.3%	10.7%
166	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	9.1%	7.3%
167	Honduras	9.0%	6.3%
168	Egypt	8.8%	7.0%
169	Lao People's Democratic Republic	8.8%	6.7%
170	Guatemala	8.5%	6.3%
171	Syrian Arab Republic	8.5%	6.5%
172	Samoa	8.2%	7.9%
173	Bahrain	7.8%	6.1%
174	Haiti	7.6%	6.0%
175	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.6%	7.4%
176	Tajikistan	7.2%	6.1%
177	Saudi Arabia	7.1%	4.7%
178	State of Palestine	7.1%	5.4%
179	Botswana	6.9%	5.3%
180	Iraq	6.8%	5.1%
181	Ghana	6.8%	5.3%
182	Kiribati	6.8%	6.2%
183	Papua New Guinea	6.8%	5.2%
184	Gabon	6.6%	5.1%
185	Eswatini	6.5%	5.1%
186	Solomon Islands	6.5%	4.8%
187	Namibia	6.3%	4.9%
188	Timor-Leste	6.3%	5.5%
189	Vanuatu	6.2%	5.4%
190	Kuwait	6.1%	4.6%
191	Comoros	6.1%	4.9%
192	Sao Tome and Principe	6.1%	4.7%
193	Mayotte	6.0%	4.1%
194	Pakistan	5.9%	5.1%
195	Eritrea	5.7%	5.0%
196	Equatorial Guinea	5.7%	4.8%
197	South Sudan	5.7%	4.3%
198	Rwanda	5.5%	4.4%
199	Oman	5.4%	3.4%
200	Senegal	5.4%	4.3%
201	Nauru	5.4%	4.3%
202	Kenya	5.2%	4.0%
203	Congo	5.2%	4.2%
204	Guinea-Bissau	5.1%	3.9%
205	Madagascar	5.1%	4.2%
206	Ethiopia	5.0%	4.2%
207	Gambia	5.0%	4.4%
208	Sierra Leone	5.0%	4.0%
209	Sudan	4.9%	4.2%
210	Togo	4.9%	4.0%
211	Lesotho	4.9%	3.9%
212	Liberia	4.6%	3.8%
213	Yemen	4.5%	3.3%
214	Zimbabwe	4.5%	3.1%
215	Benin	4.5%	3.8%
216	Cameroon	4.3%	3.4%
217	Guinea	4.3%	3.8%
218	Côte d'Ivoire	4.3%	3.3%
219	Zambia	4.3%	2.9%
220	Nigeria	4.3%	3.5%
221	Mauritania	4.3%	3.7%
222	Burkina Faso	4.2%	3.2%
223	Malawi	4.2%	3.0%
224	United Republic of Tanzania	4.1%	3.3%
225	Burundi	3.9%	2.8%
226	Angola	3.8%	3.4%
227	Uganda	3.8%	2.9%
228	Afghanistan	3.7%	3.0%
229	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.4%	3.2%
230	Somalia	3.3%	2.9%
231	Niger	3.3%	2.9%
232	Mozambique	3.3%	2.7%
233	Mali	3.2%	2.4%
234	Chad	3.1%	2.5%
235	Qatar	2.6%	1.8%
236	United Arab Emirates	2.4%	2.7%
237	Central African Republic	2.0%	2.3%

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