Share aged 65+ by country, 2052

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

◀▶2052

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2042
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	47.4%	38.6%
2	Republic of Korea	40.0%	34.6%
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	39.1%	32.6%
4	Japan	37.3%	35.8%
5	Andorra	37.1%	30.9%
6	Puerto Rico	37.1%	33.5%
7	Italy	36.8%	34.9%
8	San Marino	36.4%	35.7%
9	Spain	36.2%	32.2%
10	Bermuda	36.2%	33.0%
11	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	35.7%	29.4%
12	China, Macao SAR	35.7%	28.0%
13	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	35.5%	32.9%
14	Martinique	34.8%	37.1%
15	Greece	34.6%	31.6%
16	Bosnia and Herzegovina	34.3%	29.8%
17	Portugal	32.9%	31.4%
18	Poland	32.7%	26.4%
19	Guadeloupe	32.3%	33.9%
20	Saint Martin (French part)	31.9%	34.1%
21	Slovenia	31.9%	29.0%
22	Saint Helena	31.9%	33.4%
23	China	31.9%	27.3%
24	Isle of Man	31.8%	30.9%
25	Malta	31.6%	25.5%
26	Austria	31.1%	28.9%
27	Croatia	30.9%	28.3%
28	Guernsey	30.7%	29.5%
29	Slovakia	30.7%	25.6%
30	Cuba	30.6%	29.1%
31	Switzerland	30.5%	27.9%
32	Estonia	30.4%	26.9%
33	Germany	30.3%	29.7%
34	Ukraine	30.1%	24.6%
35	Thailand	29.9%	26.2%
36	Bulgaria	29.9%	26.7%
37	Czechia	29.8%	26.8%
38	Liechtenstein	29.7%	29.2%
39	Latvia	29.5%	26.9%
40	Serbia	29.4%	26.6%
41	French Polynesia	29.4%	23.4%
42	Lithuania	29.2%	26.9%
43	British Virgin Islands	29.2%	20.6%
44	Anguilla	29.1%	23.9%
45	Jersey	28.8%	26.7%
46	Albania	28.6%	25.6%
47	Finland	28.4%	27.0%
48	Belarus	28.3%	24.1%
49	Romania	28.2%	25.5%
50	North Macedonia	28.1%	24.7%
51	Belgium	27.9%	26.4%
52	Monaco	27.9%	31.9%
53	Cyprus	27.6%	21.1%
54	Singapore	27.6%	22.1%
55	Cook Islands	27.5%	27.3%
56	Turks and Caicos Islands	27.5%	21.4%
57	Hungary	27.5%	25.4%
58	France	27.5%	27.1%
59	Chile	27.4%	22.5%
60	Norway	27.1%	25.0%
61	Montenegro	27.1%	23.5%
62	Wallis and Futuna Islands	26.7%	24.8%
63	Mauritius	26.7%	21.9%
64	Réunion	26.7%	25.3%
65	Ireland	26.5%	22.5%
66	Luxembourg	26.5%	22.9%
67	Netherlands	26.4%	25.8%
68	Montserrat	26.3%	24.7%
69	Northern Mariana Islands	26.3%	26.5%
70	Costa Rica	26.1%	20.7%
71	Saint Barthélemy	26.1%	25.1%
72	Sweden	26.0%	24.6%
73	Cayman Islands	25.9%	20.8%
74	Canada	25.8%	24.5%
75	United States Virgin Islands	25.8%	26.7%
76	Denmark	25.6%	25.4%
77	Aruba	25.2%	24.9%
78	Antigua and Barbuda	25.0%	21.3%
79	United Kingdom	24.9%	23.5%
80	Armenia	24.8%	20.4%
81	Trinidad and Tobago	24.8%	19.1%
82	Barbados	24.6%	23.0%
83	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	24.5%	21.4%
84	Iceland	24.4%	21.1%
85	Gibraltar	24.4%	22.0%
86	Russian Federation	24.4%	21.6%
87	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	24.3%	23.0%
88	New Zealand	24.2%	22.8%
89	Australia	24.1%	22.5%
90	Curaçao	24.0%	23.0%
91	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	23.9%	15.8%
92	Uruguay	23.9%	21.0%
93	Maldives	23.7%	12.6%
94	United States of America	23.3%	22.1%
95	Brazil	23.2%	18.3%
96	Türkiye	22.8%	17.5%
97	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	22.6%	18.1%
98	Holy See	22.4%	24.4%
99	Republic of Moldova	22.4%	19.7%
100	New Caledonia	22.1%	19.0%
101	Faroe Islands	21.6%	20.5%
102	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	21.6%	20.5%
103	Bahamas	21.5%	18.9%
104	Grenada	21.3%	16.8%
105	Georgia	21.3%	19.1%
106	Saint Kitts and Nevis	21.3%	17.6%
107	Colombia	21.2%	17.0%
108	Tunisia	21.2%	16.7%
109	Saint Lucia	21.1%	17.0%
110	Sri Lanka	20.7%	17.3%
111	Viet Nam	20.7%	16.3%
112	Argentina	20.5%	16.6%
113	Palau	20.5%	18.9%
114	Jamaica	20.3%	15.0%
115	Brunei Darussalam	20.1%	14.8%
116	Seychelles	19.8%	14.9%
117	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	19.3%	17.5%
118	Dominica	19.0%	17.5%
119	Panama	19.0%	15.7%
120	Azerbaijan	18.9%	15.4%
121	American Samoa	18.8%	17.4%
122	Guam	18.3%	18.4%
123	Peru	18.3%	14.5%
124	Greenland	18.0%	17.6%
125	Ecuador	17.9%	13.7%
126	Malaysia	17.6%	12.9%
127	Cabo Verde	17.5%	12.4%
128	Mexico	17.5%	14.0%
129	Bhutan	17.0%	10.9%
130	Morocco	17.0%	13.4%
131	Algeria	16.8%	12.3%
132	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	16.6%	14.7%
133	Lebanon	16.6%	14.9%
134	Libya	16.3%	12.1%
135	Western Sahara	16.2%	11.1%
136	Israel	15.8%	14.7%
137	Indonesia	15.5%	12.6%
138	Dominican Republic	15.4%	12.8%
139	India	15.3%	11.6%
140	Suriname	15.3%	13.1%
141	El Salvador	15.1%	12.2%
142	Bangladesh	14.3%	10.2%
143	Kazakhstan	14.1%	12.5%
144	Myanmar	13.9%	11.4%
145	Niue	13.8%	14.9%
146	Belize	13.6%	9.7%
147	Nicaragua	13.4%	9.8%
148	Mongolia	13.1%	10.4%
149	Marshall Islands	13.0%	10.3%
150	Paraguay	12.9%	10.0%
151	Tokelau	12.6%	10.8%
152	Jordan	12.5%	9.6%
153	French Guiana	12.5%	10.9%
154	Cambodia	12.1%	9.0%
155	South Africa	11.7%	9.2%
156	Philippines	11.6%	9.1%
157	Nepal	11.5%	8.9%
158	Guyana	11.3%	10.4%
159	Turkmenistan	11.2%	9.2%
160	Fiji	10.9%	8.6%
161	Uzbekistan	10.8%	8.9%
162	Tonga	10.8%	9.8%
163	Honduras	10.7%	7.5%
164	Lao People's Democratic Republic	10.5%	7.6%
165	Kyrgyzstan	10.4%	8.9%
166	Djibouti	10.2%	8.2%
167	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	10.2%	8.1%
168	Egypt	10.1%	7.8%
169	Guatemala	10.1%	7.2%
170	Syrian Arab Republic	9.6%	7.5%
171	Saudi Arabia	8.7%	5.7%
172	Bahrain	8.7%	6.8%
173	Haiti	8.7%	6.7%
174	Tuvalu	8.6%	10.4%
175	State of Palestine	8.4%	6.2%
176	Tajikistan	8.2%	6.6%
177	Botswana	8.2%	6.1%
178	Samoa	8.1%	8.2%
179	Eswatini	7.8%	5.5%
180	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	7.8%	7.5%
181	Iraq	7.7%	6.0%
182	Ghana	7.7%	6.0%
183	Kiribati	7.7%	6.4%
184	Papua New Guinea	7.6%	6.0%
185	Gabon	7.5%	5.7%
186	Timor-Leste	7.4%	6.0%
187	Solomon Islands	7.3%	5.6%
188	Namibia	7.2%	5.6%
189	Vanuatu	7.1%	6.0%
190	Mayotte	7.1%	5.0%
191	Oman	7.0%	4.2%
192	Sao Tome and Principe	6.9%	5.3%
193	Kuwait	6.7%	5.3%
194	Comoros	6.7%	5.3%
195	Pakistan	6.6%	5.5%
196	Nauru	6.5%	4.6%
197	Rwanda	6.5%	4.6%
198	Lesotho	6.4%	4.1%
199	Equatorial Guinea	6.4%	5.2%
200	Senegal	6.2%	4.8%
201	Kenya	6.0%	4.5%
202	Eritrea	5.9%	5.4%
203	Guinea-Bissau	5.9%	4.5%
204	South Sudan	5.9%	5.1%
205	Sierra Leone	5.7%	4.5%
206	Gambia	5.6%	4.7%
207	Congo	5.6%	4.7%
208	Zimbabwe	5.6%	3.5%
209	Yemen	5.5%	3.8%
210	Ethiopia	5.5%	4.6%
211	Sudan	5.5%	4.5%
212	Madagascar	5.5%	4.6%
213	Togo	5.4%	4.5%
214	Malawi	5.2%	3.4%
215	Liberia	5.1%	4.1%
216	Zambia	5.0%	3.6%
217	Cameroon	4.9%	3.8%
218	Côte d'Ivoire	4.9%	3.7%
219	Burkina Faso	4.9%	3.6%
220	Benin	4.9%	4.1%
221	Guinea	4.8%	4.0%
222	Burundi	4.8%	3.2%
223	Mauritania	4.8%	4.0%
224	United Republic of Tanzania	4.6%	3.7%
225	Nigeria	4.6%	3.8%
226	Uganda	4.5%	3.4%
227	Afghanistan	4.2%	3.3%
228	Angola	4.1%	3.5%
229	Mozambique	3.7%	2.9%
230	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.6%	3.3%
231	Somalia	3.6%	3.0%
232	Niger	3.6%	3.0%
233	Mali	3.6%	2.7%
234	Chad	3.3%	2.8%
235	Qatar	3.0%	2.1%
236	Central African Republic	2.1%	2.1%
237	United Arab Emirates	2.0%	2.6%

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