Share aged 65+ by country, 2051

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

◀▶2051

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2041
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	46.5%	37.8%
2	Republic of Korea	39.7%	34.1%
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	38.9%	31.8%
4	Japan	37.3%	35.4%
5	Italy	36.8%	34.4%
6	Puerto Rico	36.8%	33.1%
7	Andorra	36.7%	30.1%
8	San Marino	36.7%	35.2%
9	Spain	36.1%	31.5%
10	Bermuda	36.0%	32.5%
11	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	35.4%	32.4%
12	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	35.4%	28.4%
13	Martinique	35.1%	37.2%
14	Greece	34.6%	31.1%
15	China, Macao SAR	34.6%	27.5%
16	Bosnia and Herzegovina	34.1%	29.2%
17	Portugal	32.9%	31.0%
18	Guadeloupe	32.7%	33.9%
19	Saint Martin (French part)	32.4%	34.1%
20	Poland	32.1%	25.9%
21	Saint Helena	31.9%	33.5%
22	Slovenia	31.8%	28.5%
23	Isle of Man	31.7%	30.8%
24	China	31.2%	26.9%
25	Austria	30.9%	28.7%
26	Croatia	30.8%	28.1%
27	Malta	30.8%	25.0%
28	Guernsey	30.6%	29.4%
29	Cuba	30.3%	28.7%
30	Switzerland	30.3%	27.6%
31	Slovakia	30.3%	25.1%
32	Germany	30.3%	29.6%
33	Estonia	30.0%	26.6%
34	Czechia	29.7%	26.2%
35	Liechtenstein	29.7%	29.0%
36	Thailand	29.6%	25.8%
37	Bulgaria	29.6%	26.3%
38	Ukraine	29.3%	24.2%
39	Serbia	29.1%	26.3%
40	Latvia	29.1%	26.7%
41	Jersey	28.8%	26.5%
42	Lithuania	28.8%	26.7%
43	French Polynesia	28.8%	22.8%
44	Anguilla	28.6%	23.3%
45	British Virgin Islands	28.5%	19.8%
46	Finland	28.3%	26.9%
47	Monaco	28.2%	32.4%
48	Albania	28.1%	25.4%
49	Romania	27.9%	25.1%
50	Belgium	27.8%	26.3%
51	Belarus	27.7%	23.8%
52	North Macedonia	27.7%	24.4%
53	Cook Islands	27.6%	27.0%
54	France	27.5%	27.0%
55	Hungary	27.4%	24.8%
56	Singapore	27.0%	21.6%
57	Turks and Caicos Islands	27.0%	20.7%
58	Cyprus	26.9%	20.6%
59	Norway	26.9%	24.8%
60	Chile	26.8%	22.0%
61	Montenegro	26.8%	23.2%
62	Wallis and Futuna Islands	26.7%	24.2%
63	Réunion	26.6%	25.1%
64	Northern Mariana Islands	26.6%	26.1%
65	Netherlands	26.3%	25.8%
66	Mauritius	26.3%	21.4%
67	Ireland	26.2%	22.1%
68	Saint Barthélemy	26.1%	25.0%
69	Luxembourg	26.1%	22.5%
70	Montserrat	25.9%	24.6%
71	United States Virgin Islands	25.9%	26.8%
72	Canada	25.7%	24.4%
73	Sweden	25.7%	24.4%
74	Denmark	25.6%	25.3%
75	Cayman Islands	25.5%	20.1%
76	Costa Rica	25.5%	20.2%
77	Aruba	25.2%	24.8%
78	United Kingdom	24.7%	23.5%
79	Antigua and Barbuda	24.6%	20.9%
80	Barbados	24.5%	22.9%
81	Armenia	24.2%	20.2%
82	Gibraltar	24.2%	21.8%
83	Trinidad and Tobago	24.2%	18.8%
84	Iceland	24.1%	20.8%
85	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	24.1%	21.1%
86	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	24.1%	22.8%
87	New Zealand	24.1%	22.7%
88	Russian Federation	24.0%	21.4%
89	Australia	23.9%	22.3%
90	Curaçao	23.9%	22.9%
91	Uruguay	23.6%	20.5%
92	United States of America	23.1%	22.0%
93	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	22.9%	15.2%
94	Holy See	22.7%	24.9%
95	Brazil	22.7%	17.9%
96	Türkiye	22.4%	16.9%
97	Maldives	22.2%	11.9%
98	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	22.1%	17.6%
99	Republic of Moldova	21.8%	19.6%
100	New Caledonia	21.7%	18.6%
101	Faroe Islands	21.5%	20.4%
102	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	21.5%	20.4%
103	Bahamas	21.2%	18.6%
104	Georgia	21.0%	19.0%
105	Colombia	20.8%	16.6%
106	Saint Kitts and Nevis	20.8%	17.3%
107	Tunisia	20.7%	16.3%
108	Saint Lucia	20.6%	16.6%
109	Grenada	20.5%	16.6%
110	Sri Lanka	20.4%	17.0%
111	Palau	20.4%	18.6%
112	Viet Nam	20.3%	15.9%
113	Argentina	20.1%	16.2%
114	Jamaica	19.7%	14.6%
115	Brunei Darussalam	19.6%	14.3%
116	Seychelles	19.3%	14.5%
117	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	19.2%	17.2%
118	American Samoa	18.8%	17.0%
119	Dominica	18.7%	17.6%
120	Panama	18.7%	15.3%
121	Azerbaijan	18.4%	15.1%
122	Guam	18.3%	18.3%
123	Peru	17.9%	14.1%
124	Greenland	17.8%	17.8%
125	Ecuador	17.5%	13.4%
126	Malaysia	17.1%	12.5%
127	Mexico	17.1%	13.7%
128	Cabo Verde	16.8%	12.0%
129	Morocco	16.6%	13.0%
130	Algeria	16.4%	11.9%
131	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	16.4%	14.4%
132	Lebanon	16.4%	14.7%
133	Bhutan	16.3%	10.5%
134	Libya	16.1%	11.5%
135	Western Sahara	15.8%	10.7%
136	Israel	15.7%	14.5%
137	Indonesia	15.3%	12.3%
138	Suriname	15.1%	12.9%
139	Dominican Republic	15.1%	12.5%
140	India	14.9%	11.3%
141	El Salvador	14.8%	12.0%
142	Kazakhstan	13.9%	12.4%
143	Niue	13.8%	14.8%
144	Bangladesh	13.8%	10.0%
145	Myanmar	13.7%	11.1%
146	Belize	13.1%	9.3%
147	Nicaragua	13.0%	9.4%
148	Marshall Islands	12.9%	10.0%
149	Mongolia	12.7%	10.1%
150	Paraguay	12.6%	9.9%
151	Tokelau	12.4%	10.8%
152	French Guiana	12.3%	10.8%
153	Jordan	12.2%	9.4%
154	Cambodia	11.8%	8.9%
155	South Africa	11.4%	9.1%
156	Philippines	11.3%	8.9%
157	Guyana	11.2%	10.2%
158	Nepal	11.2%	8.7%
159	Turkmenistan	10.9%	9.0%
160	Tonga	10.7%	9.7%
161	Fiji	10.7%	8.4%
162	Uzbekistan	10.5%	8.8%
163	Honduras	10.3%	7.2%
164	Kyrgyzstan	10.2%	8.8%
165	Lao People's Democratic Republic	10.1%	7.4%
166	Djibouti	10.0%	8.0%
167	Egypt	9.9%	7.6%
168	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	9.9%	7.9%
169	Guatemala	9.8%	7.0%
170	Syrian Arab Republic	9.4%	7.3%
171	Tuvalu	8.6%	10.6%
172	Bahrain	8.6%	6.7%
173	Haiti	8.5%	6.6%
174	Saudi Arabia	8.4%	5.4%
175	Samoa	8.1%	8.2%
176	State of Palestine	8.1%	6.0%
177	Tajikistan	8.0%	6.5%
178	Botswana	7.8%	5.9%
179	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.8%	7.5%
180	Iraq	7.5%	5.8%
181	Eswatini	7.5%	5.4%
182	Ghana	7.5%	5.8%
183	Kiribati	7.5%	6.3%
184	Papua New Guinea	7.4%	5.9%
185	Gabon	7.3%	5.6%
186	Solomon Islands	7.2%	5.5%
187	Timor-Leste	7.1%	6.0%
188	Namibia	7.0%	5.5%
189	Vanuatu	6.9%	5.9%
190	Mayotte	6.9%	4.8%
191	Sao Tome and Principe	6.8%	5.1%
192	Oman	6.7%	4.0%
193	Kuwait	6.7%	5.2%
194	Comoros	6.6%	5.2%
195	Pakistan	6.5%	5.4%
196	Nauru	6.3%	4.5%
197	Rwanda	6.3%	4.5%
198	Equatorial Guinea	6.3%	5.1%
199	Lesotho	6.1%	4.0%
200	Senegal	6.0%	4.6%
201	Eritrea	5.9%	5.3%
202	South Sudan	5.9%	4.9%
203	Guinea-Bissau	5.8%	4.3%
204	Kenya	5.8%	4.4%
205	Sierra Leone	5.6%	4.4%
206	Gambia	5.5%	4.6%
207	Congo	5.5%	4.6%
208	Ethiopia	5.4%	4.5%
209	Zimbabwe	5.4%	3.3%
210	Sudan	5.4%	4.5%
211	Madagascar	5.4%	4.5%
212	Yemen	5.3%	3.7%
213	Togo	5.3%	4.4%
214	Malawi	5.0%	3.3%
215	Liberia	5.0%	4.1%
216	Zambia	4.9%	3.4%
217	Cameroon	4.8%	3.7%
218	Côte d'Ivoire	4.8%	3.6%
219	Burkina Faso	4.8%	3.5%
220	Benin	4.8%	4.0%
221	Guinea	4.7%	4.0%
222	Mauritania	4.7%	3.9%
223	Nigeria	4.6%	3.7%
224	Burundi	4.6%	3.1%
225	United Republic of Tanzania	4.5%	3.6%
226	Uganda	4.3%	3.3%
227	Afghanistan	4.1%	3.2%
228	Angola	4.1%	3.5%
229	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.6%	3.3%
230	Mozambique	3.6%	2.9%
231	Somalia	3.5%	3.0%
232	Niger	3.5%	3.0%
233	Mali	3.5%	2.7%
234	Chad	3.3%	2.8%
235	Qatar	3.0%	2.0%
236	United Arab Emirates	2.0%	2.6%
237	Central African Republic	2.0%	2.2%

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