Share aged 65+ by country, 2054

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

◀▶2054

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2044
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	49.1%	40.2%
2	Republic of Korea	40.6%	35.8%
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	39.8%	34.1%
4	China, Macao SAR	38.2%	29.0%
5	Andorra	38.0%	32.5%
6	Puerto Rico	37.8%	34.3%
7	Japan	37.4%	36.3%
8	Italy	36.9%	35.6%
9	Spain	36.4%	33.5%
10	Bermuda	36.3%	33.7%
11	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	36.0%	31.3%
12	San Marino	35.9%	36.4%
13	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	35.3%	33.5%
14	Bosnia and Herzegovina	34.7%	30.9%
15	Greece	34.5%	32.5%
16	Martinique	34.3%	36.6%
17	Poland	33.8%	27.5%
18	China	33.5%	27.9%
19	Malta	33.3%	26.4%
20	Portugal	32.7%	32.1%
21	Slovenia	32.3%	29.7%
22	Guadeloupe	31.8%	33.8%
23	Isle of Man	31.8%	31.1%
24	Ukraine	31.6%	25.3%
25	Slovakia	31.5%	26.8%
26	Estonia	31.4%	27.5%
27	Austria	31.4%	29.3%
28	Cuba	31.3%	29.3%
29	Croatia	31.2%	28.9%
30	Saint Helena	31.2%	32.8%
31	Guernsey	31.1%	29.7%
32	Saint Martin (French part)	30.9%	33.8%
33	Switzerland	30.9%	28.4%
34	Bulgaria	30.6%	27.4%
35	French Polynesia	30.6%	24.5%
36	Germany	30.5%	29.8%
37	Latvia	30.4%	27.2%
38	British Virgin Islands	30.4%	22.3%
39	Thailand	30.3%	27.1%
40	Czechia	30.2%	27.8%
41	Lithuania	30.0%	27.3%
42	Albania	29.8%	26.1%
43	Serbia	29.8%	27.1%
44	Liechtenstein	29.7%	29.4%
45	Anguilla	29.6%	24.7%
46	Belarus	29.5%	24.7%
47	Cyprus	29.2%	22.1%
48	Jersey	29.0%	27.2%
49	Singapore	29.0%	23.0%
50	Romania	28.9%	26.4%
51	North Macedonia	28.8%	25.3%
52	Finland	28.7%	27.2%
53	Chile	28.6%	23.4%
54	Turks and Caicos Islands	28.4%	22.7%
55	Belgium	28.1%	26.8%
56	Norway	27.7%	25.4%
57	Hungary	27.7%	26.3%
58	Mauritius	27.7%	23.0%
59	Montenegro	27.6%	24.2%
60	France	27.5%	27.2%
61	Costa Rica	27.4%	21.6%
62	Cook Islands	27.3%	27.5%
63	Monaco	27.2%	31.0%
64	Luxembourg	27.2%	23.6%
65	Montserrat	27.1%	25.3%
66	Ireland	26.8%	23.4%
67	Réunion	26.8%	25.7%
68	Maldives	26.7%	14.1%
69	Wallis and Futuna Islands	26.6%	25.6%
70	Netherlands	26.6%	25.9%
71	Cayman Islands	26.6%	21.9%
72	Saint Barthélemy	26.6%	25.2%
73	Sweden	26.5%	24.7%
74	Armenia	26.2%	21.0%
75	Canada	26.1%	24.7%
76	Trinidad and Tobago	26.0%	19.9%
77	Denmark	25.8%	25.6%
78	Antigua and Barbuda	25.7%	22.0%
79	Northern Mariana Islands	25.7%	27.1%
80	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	25.5%	17.0%
81	United States Virgin Islands	25.5%	26.5%
82	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	25.4%	21.9%
83	Iceland	25.3%	21.6%
84	Aruba	25.3%	25.0%
85	Russian Federation	25.3%	21.9%
86	United Kingdom	25.1%	23.6%
87	Barbados	24.8%	23.3%
88	Gibraltar	24.7%	22.6%
89	New Zealand	24.7%	23.0%
90	Uruguay	24.6%	21.7%
91	Australia	24.5%	22.7%
92	Curaçao	24.5%	23.2%
93	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	24.4%	23.4%
94	Brazil	24.1%	19.3%
95	Türkiye	23.8%	18.6%
96	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	23.6%	19.0%
97	United States of America	23.5%	22.3%
98	Republic of Moldova	23.4%	19.9%
99	Grenada	22.9%	17.1%
100	New Caledonia	22.6%	19.6%
101	Saint Kitts and Nevis	22.3%	18.1%
102	Colombia	22.2%	17.8%
103	Tunisia	22.1%	17.5%
104	Holy See	22.1%	23.4%
105	Bahamas	22.1%	19.5%
106	Saint Lucia	22.0%	17.7%
107	Faroe Islands	22.0%	20.7%
108	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	22.0%	20.7%
109	Georgia	21.9%	19.4%
110	Viet Nam	21.7%	17.0%
111	Jamaica	21.6%	15.8%
112	Argentina	21.3%	17.4%
113	Brunei Darussalam	21.2%	15.8%
114	Sri Lanka	21.1%	18.0%
115	Seychelles	21.0%	15.7%
116	Palau	20.7%	19.3%
117	Azerbaijan	19.9%	15.8%
118	Dominica	19.6%	17.4%
119	Panama	19.6%	16.3%
120	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	19.5%	17.9%
121	Peru	19.2%	15.2%
122	Cabo Verde	19.0%	13.1%
123	Ecuador	18.8%	14.5%
124	American Samoa	18.8%	18.1%
125	Greenland	18.7%	17.3%
126	Bhutan	18.7%	11.9%
127	Malaysia	18.7%	13.6%
128	Guam	18.3%	18.4%
129	Mexico	18.2%	14.7%
130	Morocco	17.8%	14.0%
131	Algeria	17.6%	13.2%
132	Western Sahara	17.0%	11.9%
133	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	16.9%	15.1%
134	Libya	16.9%	13.1%
135	Lebanon	16.8%	15.2%
136	India	16.1%	12.3%
137	Israel	16.0%	14.9%
138	Dominican Republic	16.0%	13.3%
139	Indonesia	15.9%	13.2%
140	El Salvador	15.8%	12.9%
141	Suriname	15.7%	13.4%
142	Bangladesh	15.1%	10.8%
143	Kazakhstan	14.6%	12.8%
144	Belize	14.6%	10.3%
145	Myanmar	14.4%	11.8%
146	Nicaragua	14.3%	10.4%
147	Mongolia	13.8%	10.9%
148	Paraguay	13.7%	10.4%
149	Niue	13.2%	14.9%
150	Jordan	13.2%	10.2%
151	Tokelau	13.0%	10.9%
152	Cambodia	12.8%	9.3%
153	Marshall Islands	12.8%	11.0%
154	French Guiana	12.7%	11.1%
155	Philippines	12.2%	9.5%
156	South Africa	12.2%	9.6%
157	Nepal	12.1%	9.3%
158	Turkmenistan	11.8%	9.6%
159	Guyana	11.5%	10.6%
160	Fiji	11.4%	8.9%
161	Honduras	11.4%	8.1%
162	Uzbekistan	11.3%	9.2%
163	Lao People's Democratic Republic	11.2%	8.0%
164	Kyrgyzstan	11.0%	9.1%
165	Guatemala	10.9%	7.7%
166	Egypt	10.7%	8.2%
167	Tonga	10.7%	10.0%
168	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	10.7%	8.5%
169	Djibouti	10.5%	8.7%
170	Syrian Arab Republic	10.0%	7.9%
171	Saudi Arabia	9.3%	6.2%
172	Haiti	9.2%	7.1%
173	Bahrain	9.1%	7.2%
174	State of Palestine	9.0%	6.5%
175	Tajikistan	8.8%	6.8%
176	Botswana	8.8%	6.4%
177	Tuvalu	8.5%	10.0%
178	Eswatini	8.4%	5.8%
179	Kiribati	8.1%	6.5%
180	Iraq	8.0%	6.3%
181	Ghana	8.0%	6.3%
182	Samoa	8.0%	8.2%
183	Papua New Guinea	8.0%	6.3%
184	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	8.0%	7.5%
185	Timor-Leste	8.0%	6.1%
186	Gabon	7.8%	6.1%
187	Solomon Islands	7.7%	6.0%
188	Oman	7.6%	4.7%
189	Namibia	7.6%	5.9%
190	Vanuatu	7.5%	5.8%
191	Mayotte	7.4%	5.4%
192	Sao Tome and Principe	7.1%	5.6%
193	Lesotho	7.1%	4.4%
194	Comoros	7.0%	5.6%
195	Nauru	6.9%	4.8%
196	Pakistan	6.9%	5.6%
197	Rwanda	6.9%	4.9%
198	Equatorial Guinea	6.8%	5.4%
199	Kuwait	6.7%	5.6%
200	Senegal	6.6%	5.0%
201	Kenya	6.3%	4.8%
202	Eritrea	6.2%	5.5%
203	Guinea-Bissau	6.2%	4.7%
204	Gambia	6.0%	4.7%
205	Sierra Leone	6.0%	4.7%
206	Yemen	5.9%	4.1%
207	Ethiopia	5.9%	4.8%
208	Zimbabwe	5.8%	3.8%
209	Sudan	5.8%	4.7%
210	Congo	5.7%	4.9%
211	Madagascar	5.7%	4.8%
212	South Sudan	5.7%	5.3%
213	Togo	5.5%	4.7%
214	Malawi	5.5%	3.7%
215	Zambia	5.3%	3.8%
216	Liberia	5.3%	4.3%
217	Cameroon	5.2%	4.0%
218	Burkina Faso	5.2%	3.8%
219	Guinea	5.1%	4.1%
220	Côte d'Ivoire	5.1%	3.9%
221	Burundi	5.1%	3.4%
222	Benin	5.1%	4.2%
223	Mauritania	5.1%	4.1%
224	Uganda	4.9%	3.5%
225	United Republic of Tanzania	4.8%	3.9%
226	Nigeria	4.8%	4.0%
227	Afghanistan	4.4%	3.5%
228	Angola	4.3%	3.6%
229	Mozambique	3.9%	3.0%
230	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.8%	3.3%
231	Somalia	3.8%	3.1%
232	Niger	3.7%	3.1%
233	Mali	3.7%	2.9%
234	Chad	3.4%	2.9%
235	Qatar	3.3%	2.2%
236	United Arab Emirates	2.2%	2.6%
237	Central African Republic	2.2%	2.1%

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