Share aged 65+ by country, 2055

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

◀▶2055

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2045
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	49.9%	41.0%
2	Republic of Korea	40.9%	36.4%
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	40.1%	34.9%
4	China, Macao SAR	39.5%	29.6%
5	Andorra	38.4%	33.3%
6	Puerto Rico	38.2%	34.7%
7	Japan	37.4%	36.6%
8	Italy	36.9%	35.9%
9	Spain	36.5%	34.1%
10	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	36.4%	32.0%
11	Bermuda	36.3%	34.0%
12	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	35.6%	33.7%
13	San Marino	35.6%	36.7%
14	Bosnia and Herzegovina	34.7%	31.5%
15	Greece	34.5%	33.0%
16	China	34.4%	28.3%
17	Poland	34.3%	28.1%
18	Malta	34.2%	27.0%
19	Martinique	34.1%	36.4%
20	Portugal	32.5%	32.3%
21	Ukraine	32.3%	25.7%
22	Slovenia	32.3%	30.1%
23	Estonia	32.0%	27.8%
24	Slovakia	31.9%	27.3%
25	Isle of Man	31.8%	31.3%
26	Cuba	31.7%	29.4%
27	Austria	31.6%	29.5%
28	Guadeloupe	31.6%	33.6%
29	Croatia	31.3%	29.2%
30	Saint Helena	31.3%	32.3%
31	Guernsey	31.2%	29.8%
32	French Polynesia	31.2%	25.1%
33	Switzerland	31.1%	28.7%
34	Bulgaria	30.9%	27.8%
35	British Virgin Islands	30.9%	23.2%
36	Latvia	30.8%	27.4%
37	Germany	30.6%	29.8%
38	Albania	30.5%	26.3%
39	Thailand	30.5%	27.5%
40	Saint Martin (French part)	30.4%	33.7%
41	Czechia	30.4%	28.2%
42	Lithuania	30.4%	27.4%
43	Belarus	30.1%	25.0%
44	Serbia	30.0%	27.4%
45	Cyprus	29.9%	22.7%
46	Singapore	29.9%	23.5%
47	Anguilla	29.8%	25.2%
48	Liechtenstein	29.7%	29.4%
49	Chile	29.3%	23.9%
50	Romania	29.2%	26.8%
51	Jersey	29.1%	27.5%
52	North Macedonia	29.1%	25.7%
53	Finland	28.9%	27.3%
54	Turks and Caicos Islands	28.7%	23.4%
55	Belgium	28.3%	27.0%
56	Mauritius	28.3%	23.6%
57	Maldives	28.2%	14.9%
58	Costa Rica	28.0%	22.1%
59	Norway	27.9%	25.6%
60	Hungary	27.8%	26.6%
61	Montenegro	27.7%	24.6%
62	Montserrat	27.6%	25.3%
63	France	27.5%	27.3%
64	Luxembourg	27.5%	24.0%
65	Cook Islands	27.1%	27.7%
66	Ireland	26.9%	23.9%
67	Armenia	26.9%	21.3%
68	Cayman Islands	26.9%	22.5%
69	Réunion	26.9%	25.9%
70	Netherlands	26.8%	25.9%
71	Saint Barthélemy	26.8%	25.3%
72	Sweden	26.8%	24.8%
73	Monaco	26.8%	30.6%
74	Wallis and Futuna Islands	26.6%	25.9%
75	Trinidad and Tobago	26.4%	20.4%
76	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	26.3%	17.7%
77	Canada	26.3%	24.8%
78	Antigua and Barbuda	26.1%	22.4%
79	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	25.9%	22.1%
80	Denmark	25.9%	25.6%
81	Iceland	25.8%	22.0%
82	Russian Federation	25.6%	22.2%
83	Aruba	25.4%	25.1%
84	United Kingdom	25.3%	23.8%
85	United States Virgin Islands	25.3%	26.5%
86	Northern Mariana Islands	25.3%	27.2%
87	Uruguay	25.0%	22.0%
88	New Zealand	25.0%	23.2%
89	Barbados	25.0%	23.5%
90	Gibraltar	24.9%	22.8%
91	Curaçao	24.8%	23.2%
92	Australia	24.7%	22.8%
93	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	24.5%	23.5%
94	Brazil	24.5%	19.7%
95	Türkiye	24.2%	19.2%
96	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	24.1%	19.4%
97	Republic of Moldova	23.9%	20.0%
98	United States of America	23.7%	22.4%
99	Grenada	23.7%	17.3%
100	Saint Kitts and Nevis	22.8%	18.4%
101	New Caledonia	22.8%	19.9%
102	Colombia	22.7%	18.2%
103	Saint Lucia	22.5%	18.1%
104	Tunisia	22.5%	17.9%
105	Bahamas	22.4%	19.7%
106	Jamaica	22.3%	16.2%
107	Georgia	22.3%	19.5%
108	Faroe Islands	22.3%	20.9%
109	Viet Nam	22.3%	17.4%
110	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	22.1%	20.8%
111	Holy See	21.9%	23.1%
112	Argentina	21.7%	17.8%
113	Brunei Darussalam	21.7%	16.4%
114	Seychelles	21.5%	16.3%
115	Sri Lanka	21.4%	18.4%
116	Palau	20.9%	19.6%
117	Azerbaijan	20.5%	16.1%
118	Dominica	19.9%	17.5%
119	Panama	19.9%	16.6%
120	Cabo Verde	19.7%	13.5%
121	Bhutan	19.6%	12.5%
122	Peru	19.6%	15.6%
123	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	19.5%	18.1%
124	Ecuador	19.3%	14.9%
125	Malaysia	19.2%	14.0%
126	Greenland	19.1%	17.3%
127	American Samoa	18.7%	18.3%
128	Mexico	18.6%	15.0%
129	Guam	18.3%	18.4%
130	Morocco	18.1%	14.4%
131	Algeria	18.0%	13.6%
132	Western Sahara	17.3%	12.5%
133	Libya	17.1%	13.6%
134	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	17.0%	15.3%
135	Lebanon	16.9%	15.4%
136	India	16.6%	12.6%
137	El Salvador	16.3%	13.2%
138	Dominican Republic	16.3%	13.6%
139	Indonesia	16.2%	13.5%
140	Israel	16.0%	15.0%
141	Suriname	15.9%	13.6%
142	Bangladesh	15.4%	11.1%
143	Belize	15.1%	10.7%
144	Kazakhstan	14.9%	12.9%
145	Nicaragua	14.7%	10.8%
146	Myanmar	14.6%	12.1%
147	Paraguay	14.1%	10.7%
148	Mongolia	14.1%	11.1%
149	Jordan	13.5%	10.5%
150	Cambodia	13.2%	9.6%
151	Tokelau	13.1%	11.2%
152	Niue	12.9%	14.6%
153	French Guiana	12.8%	11.3%
154	Philippines	12.6%	9.8%
155	Marshall Islands	12.6%	11.3%
156	South Africa	12.5%	9.8%
157	Nepal	12.4%	9.6%
158	Turkmenistan	12.2%	9.7%
159	Guyana	11.7%	10.7%
160	Honduras	11.7%	8.4%
161	Fiji	11.6%	9.2%
162	Lao People's Democratic Republic	11.6%	8.3%
163	Uzbekistan	11.5%	9.3%
164	Guatemala	11.3%	7.9%
165	Kyrgyzstan	11.2%	9.2%
166	Egypt	11.0%	8.4%
167	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	11.0%	8.7%
168	Djibouti	10.7%	8.9%
169	Tonga	10.6%	10.1%
170	Syrian Arab Republic	10.2%	8.1%
171	Saudi Arabia	9.6%	6.5%
172	Haiti	9.5%	7.2%
173	State of Palestine	9.4%	6.7%
174	Bahrain	9.3%	7.4%
175	Botswana	9.2%	6.6%
176	Tajikistan	9.1%	6.9%
177	Eswatini	8.7%	6.0%
178	Tuvalu	8.5%	9.8%
179	Kiribati	8.3%	6.6%
180	Iraq	8.2%	6.5%
181	Ghana	8.2%	6.5%
182	Timor-Leste	8.2%	6.1%
183	Papua New Guinea	8.1%	6.5%
184	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	8.1%	7.5%
185	Gabon	8.0%	6.2%
186	Samoa	8.0%	8.2%
187	Oman	7.9%	4.9%
188	Namibia	7.9%	6.0%
189	Solomon Islands	7.8%	6.1%
190	Vanuatu	7.7%	5.9%
191	Mayotte	7.5%	5.6%
192	Lesotho	7.4%	4.5%
193	Comoros	7.2%	5.8%
194	Sao Tome and Principe	7.1%	5.8%
195	Pakistan	7.1%	5.7%
196	Rwanda	7.1%	5.0%
197	Nauru	7.0%	5.0%
198	Equatorial Guinea	6.9%	5.5%
199	Senegal	6.8%	5.1%
200	Kuwait	6.7%	5.8%
201	Kenya	6.5%	4.9%
202	Guinea-Bissau	6.4%	4.9%
203	Eritrea	6.3%	5.6%
204	Gambia	6.2%	4.8%
205	Sierra Leone	6.2%	4.8%
206	Yemen	6.1%	4.2%
207	Ethiopia	6.0%	4.9%
208	Sudan	5.9%	4.8%
209	Congo	5.8%	5.0%
210	Zimbabwe	5.8%	4.0%
211	Madagascar	5.8%	4.9%
212	Malawi	5.7%	3.8%
213	South Sudan	5.7%	5.5%
214	Togo	5.6%	4.8%
215	Zambia	5.5%	4.0%
216	Liberia	5.4%	4.4%
217	Cameroon	5.3%	4.1%
218	Guinea	5.3%	4.1%
219	Burkina Faso	5.3%	4.0%
220	Côte d'Ivoire	5.2%	4.1%
221	Burundi	5.2%	3.6%
222	Benin	5.2%	4.3%
223	Mauritania	5.2%	4.2%
224	Uganda	5.1%	3.6%
225	United Republic of Tanzania	4.9%	3.9%
226	Nigeria	4.8%	4.1%
227	Afghanistan	4.5%	3.6%
228	Angola	4.4%	3.7%
229	Mozambique	4.0%	3.1%
230	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.8%	3.3%
231	Somalia	3.8%	3.2%
232	Niger	3.8%	3.2%
233	Mali	3.8%	3.0%
234	Qatar	3.5%	2.3%
235	Chad	3.5%	3.0%
236	United Arab Emirates	2.3%	2.5%
237	Central African Republic	2.2%	2.0%

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