Share aged 65+ by country, 2048

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

◀▶2048

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2038
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	43.9%	35.3%
2	Republic of Korea	38.5%	31.8%
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	37.2%	30.0%
4	Japan	37.0%	33.9%
5	San Marino	36.8%	33.3%
6	Italy	36.5%	32.8%
7	Puerto Rico	35.9%	31.8%
8	Martinique	35.8%	36.6%
9	Spain	35.4%	29.5%
10	Andorra	35.3%	27.2%
11	Bermuda	35.1%	31.2%
12	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	34.6%	30.8%
13	Greece	34.1%	29.8%
14	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	34.1%	25.3%
15	Guadeloupe	33.3%	33.0%
16	Saint Martin (French part)	33.3%	33.2%
17	Bosnia and Herzegovina	33.0%	28.0%
18	Portugal	32.8%	29.8%
19	Saint Helena	32.1%	33.1%
20	China, Macao SAR	31.7%	24.7%
21	Isle of Man	31.6%	30.1%
22	Slovenia	31.1%	27.4%
23	Guernsey	30.3%	28.7%
24	Austria	30.2%	27.9%
25	Germany	30.1%	29.5%
26	Croatia	30.0%	27.4%
27	Poland	30.0%	24.5%
28	Liechtenstein	29.7%	28.3%
29	China	29.7%	25.0%
30	Switzerland	29.6%	26.7%
31	Cuba	29.5%	27.1%
32	Monaco	29.4%	33.5%
33	Czechia	29.0%	24.4%
34	Slovakia	28.8%	23.5%
35	Estonia	28.7%	25.7%
36	Thailand	28.7%	24.2%
37	Bulgaria	28.7%	25.0%
38	Malta	28.7%	23.8%
39	Jersey	28.3%	25.7%
40	Serbia	28.2%	25.6%
41	Latvia	28.0%	26.0%
42	Lithuania	27.9%	25.9%
43	Cook Islands	27.7%	25.6%
44	Finland	27.7%	26.9%
45	France	27.5%	26.5%
46	Belgium	27.5%	25.7%
47	Romania	27.5%	23.9%
48	Ukraine	27.3%	23.4%
49	Hungary	27.2%	23.3%
50	Northern Mariana Islands	27.2%	24.4%
51	Albania	26.9%	24.5%
52	Anguilla	26.9%	21.4%
53	French Polynesia	26.9%	20.9%
54	Wallis and Futuna Islands	26.7%	22.4%
55	North Macedonia	26.7%	23.4%
56	Réunion	26.3%	24.1%
57	United States Virgin Islands	26.3%	26.8%
58	Norway	26.2%	24.0%
59	Netherlands	26.1%	25.5%
60	Belarus	26.1%	23.0%
61	British Virgin Islands	26.0%	17.7%
62	Saint Barthélemy	25.7%	24.2%
63	Montenegro	25.7%	22.4%
64	Denmark	25.6%	24.7%
65	Ireland	25.3%	20.8%
66	Turks and Caicos Islands	25.3%	18.7%
67	Chile	25.3%	20.6%
68	Aruba	25.2%	24.2%
69	Canada	25.2%	24.1%
70	Singapore	25.2%	20.2%
71	Sweden	25.2%	23.9%
72	Mauritius	25.2%	20.3%
73	Luxembourg	25.1%	21.5%
74	Montserrat	24.8%	24.4%
75	Cyprus	24.6%	19.4%
76	United Kingdom	24.2%	23.0%
77	Cayman Islands	24.1%	18.2%
78	Barbados	23.9%	22.1%
79	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	23.8%	21.9%
80	Costa Rica	23.7%	19.0%
81	New Zealand	23.6%	22.2%
82	Curaçao	23.5%	22.3%
83	Gibraltar	23.5%	21.0%
84	Antigua and Barbuda	23.4%	19.7%
85	Australia	23.3%	21.8%
86	Iceland	23.1%	19.9%
87	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	23.0%	20.4%
88	Holy See	23.0%	28.3%
89	Russian Federation	22.9%	20.8%
90	United States of America	22.8%	21.9%
91	Uruguay	22.7%	19.5%
92	Armenia	22.6%	19.6%
93	Trinidad and Tobago	22.2%	17.9%
94	Faroe Islands	21.2%	19.9%
95	Brazil	21.2%	16.7%
96	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	21.1%	19.4%
97	Türkiye	20.9%	15.5%
98	New Caledonia	20.9%	17.4%
99	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	20.8%	16.1%
100	Republic of Moldova	20.6%	19.3%
101	Bahamas	20.5%	17.6%
102	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	20.1%	13.7%
103	Georgia	20.1%	18.6%
104	Palau	20.0%	17.5%
105	Sri Lanka	19.5%	16.3%
106	Saint Kitts and Nevis	19.5%	16.4%
107	Colombia	19.4%	15.5%
108	Saint Lucia	19.3%	15.4%
109	Tunisia	19.3%	15.0%
110	Argentina	19.0%	15.3%
111	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	18.7%	16.6%
112	American Samoa	18.7%	15.7%
113	Viet Nam	18.6%	14.9%
114	Grenada	18.5%	16.1%
115	Guam	18.4%	17.9%
116	Maldives	18.1%	10.1%
117	Brunei Darussalam	18.0%	12.7%
118	Dominica	17.9%	17.3%
119	Jamaica	17.8%	13.3%
120	Seychelles	17.7%	13.2%
121	Panama	17.6%	14.2%
122	Greenland	17.4%	18.4%
123	Azerbaijan	17.1%	14.6%
124	Peru	16.7%	13.0%
125	Ecuador	16.1%	12.3%
126	Mexico	16.1%	12.6%
127	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	16.0%	13.7%
128	Lebanon	15.9%	14.2%
129	Malaysia	15.5%	11.6%
130	Morocco	15.5%	12.1%
131	Israel	15.4%	14.0%
132	Algeria	15.0%	10.8%
133	Cabo Verde	15.0%	11.2%
134	Libya	15.0%	10.0%
135	Indonesia	14.4%	11.3%
136	Suriname	14.3%	12.2%
137	Dominican Republic	14.3%	11.7%
138	Bhutan	14.3%	9.5%
139	Western Sahara	14.2%	9.8%
140	Niue	14.1%	15.2%
141	El Salvador	14.0%	11.1%
142	India	13.7%	10.5%
143	Kazakhstan	13.3%	11.9%
144	Myanmar	12.8%	10.4%
145	Marshall Islands	12.4%	9.0%
146	Bangladesh	12.3%	9.2%
147	Nicaragua	11.9%	8.5%
148	Mongolia	11.9%	9.3%
149	French Guiana	11.9%	10.2%
150	Tokelau	11.8%	10.9%
151	Belize	11.8%	8.4%
152	Paraguay	11.5%	9.3%
153	Jordan	11.4%	8.5%
154	Guyana	11.0%	9.7%
155	Cambodia	10.7%	8.8%
156	Philippines	10.5%	8.4%
157	South Africa	10.5%	8.7%
158	Tonga	10.4%	9.3%
159	Nepal	10.3%	8.1%
160	Turkmenistan	10.2%	8.3%
161	Fiji	9.9%	8.2%
162	Uzbekistan	9.8%	8.4%
163	Kyrgyzstan	9.6%	8.5%
164	Djibouti	9.5%	7.3%
165	Honduras	9.4%	6.5%
166	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	9.3%	7.4%
167	Egypt	9.1%	7.2%
168	Tuvalu	9.1%	10.7%
169	Lao People's Democratic Republic	9.1%	6.8%
170	Guatemala	8.8%	6.5%
171	Syrian Arab Republic	8.7%	6.7%
172	Samoa	8.1%	8.0%
173	Bahrain	8.0%	6.2%
174	Haiti	7.8%	6.1%
175	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.6%	7.4%
176	Saudi Arabia	7.4%	4.9%
177	Tajikistan	7.3%	6.2%
178	State of Palestine	7.3%	5.5%
179	Botswana	7.1%	5.5%
180	Iraq	7.0%	5.3%
181	Kiribati	7.0%	6.2%
182	Ghana	6.9%	5.4%
183	Papua New Guinea	6.9%	5.4%
184	Gabon	6.8%	5.2%
185	Eswatini	6.7%	5.2%
186	Solomon Islands	6.6%	5.0%
187	Namibia	6.5%	5.1%
188	Timor-Leste	6.4%	5.6%
189	Kuwait	6.3%	4.8%
190	Sao Tome and Principe	6.3%	4.8%
191	Vanuatu	6.3%	5.6%
192	Comoros	6.2%	4.9%
193	Mayotte	6.2%	4.2%
194	Pakistan	6.1%	5.2%
195	Equatorial Guinea	5.8%	4.8%
196	South Sudan	5.8%	4.5%
197	Eritrea	5.7%	5.1%
198	Oman	5.7%	3.5%
199	Rwanda	5.7%	4.4%
200	Nauru	5.6%	4.4%
201	Senegal	5.5%	4.4%
202	Guinea-Bissau	5.3%	4.0%
203	Kenya	5.3%	4.1%
204	Congo	5.2%	4.3%
205	Sierra Leone	5.2%	4.1%
206	Lesotho	5.2%	3.9%
207	Ethiopia	5.1%	4.3%
208	Gambia	5.1%	4.5%
209	Madagascar	5.1%	4.3%
210	Sudan	5.0%	4.3%
211	Togo	5.0%	4.1%
212	Yemen	4.7%	3.4%
213	Zimbabwe	4.7%	3.1%
214	Liberia	4.7%	3.9%
215	Benin	4.5%	3.8%
216	Cameroon	4.4%	3.4%
217	Guinea	4.4%	3.9%
218	Côte d'Ivoire	4.4%	3.4%
219	Zambia	4.4%	3.0%
220	Burkina Faso	4.4%	3.3%
221	Malawi	4.4%	3.1%
222	Mauritania	4.4%	3.7%
223	Nigeria	4.3%	3.5%
224	United Republic of Tanzania	4.2%	3.4%
225	Burundi	4.1%	2.9%
226	Uganda	3.9%	3.0%
227	Afghanistan	3.8%	3.0%
228	Angola	3.8%	3.4%
229	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.4%	3.3%
230	Somalia	3.3%	2.9%
231	Niger	3.3%	2.9%
232	Mali	3.3%	2.5%
233	Mozambique	3.3%	2.8%
234	Chad	3.1%	2.6%
235	Qatar	2.8%	1.9%
236	United Arab Emirates	2.3%	2.7%
237	Central African Republic	2.0%	2.3%

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