Share aged 65+ by country, 2056

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

◀▶2056

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2046
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	50.7%	41.9%
2	Republic of Korea	41.2%	37.2%
3	China, Macao SAR	40.6%	30.2%
4	China, Taiwan Province of China	40.4%	35.7%
5	Andorra	38.9%	33.9%
6	Puerto Rico	38.6%	35.2%
7	Japan	37.4%	36.7%
8	Italy	36.9%	36.1%
9	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	36.8%	32.7%
10	Spain	36.5%	34.6%
11	Bermuda	36.3%	34.4%
12	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	35.7%	33.9%
13	San Marino	35.4%	36.8%
14	China	35.3%	28.7%
15	Malta	35.1%	27.5%
16	Poland	34.8%	28.7%
17	Bosnia and Herzegovina	34.8%	32.1%
18	Greece	34.4%	33.4%
19	Martinique	33.9%	36.2%
20	Ukraine	32.9%	26.2%
21	Estonia	32.4%	28.1%
22	Portugal	32.4%	32.5%
23	Slovenia	32.3%	30.5%
24	Slovakia	32.2%	27.9%
25	Cuba	32.1%	29.4%
26	Austria	31.8%	29.7%
27	Isle of Man	31.8%	31.4%
28	French Polynesia	31.7%	25.7%
29	Albania	31.4%	26.5%
30	Guernsey	31.4%	30.0%
31	Guadeloupe	31.4%	33.5%
32	Croatia	31.4%	29.5%
33	British Virgin Islands	31.4%	24.1%
34	Switzerland	31.3%	29.0%
35	Saint Helena	31.2%	32.0%
36	Bulgaria	31.2%	28.1%
37	Latvia	31.2%	27.6%
38	Lithuania	31.0%	27.6%
39	Singapore	30.8%	24.1%
40	Thailand	30.8%	27.9%
41	Germany	30.7%	29.9%
42	Belarus	30.6%	25.3%
43	Cyprus	30.5%	23.3%
44	Czechia	30.5%	28.6%
45	Serbia	30.2%	27.7%
46	Anguilla	30.0%	25.6%
47	Chile	30.0%	24.3%
48	Saint Martin (French part)	29.8%	33.6%
49	Maldives	29.7%	15.9%
50	Liechtenstein	29.7%	29.5%
51	North Macedonia	29.5%	26.0%
52	Romania	29.4%	27.1%
53	Finland	29.2%	27.4%
54	Jersey	29.1%	27.8%
55	Turks and Caicos Islands	29.0%	24.0%
56	Mauritius	28.9%	24.1%
57	Costa Rica	28.6%	22.6%
58	Belgium	28.4%	27.1%
59	Norway	28.2%	25.8%
60	Hungary	27.9%	26.9%
61	Montenegro	27.9%	24.9%
62	Luxembourg	27.9%	24.4%
63	Montserrat	27.7%	25.3%
64	Armenia	27.6%	21.7%
65	France	27.5%	27.4%
66	Cayman Islands	27.2%	23.0%
67	Sweden	27.2%	25.0%
68	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	27.1%	18.4%
69	Ireland	27.0%	24.4%
70	Netherlands	27.0%	26.0%
71	Saint Barthélemy	27.0%	25.4%
72	Trinidad and Tobago	26.9%	21.0%
73	Réunion	26.9%	26.1%
74	Cook Islands	26.7%	27.6%
75	Antigua and Barbuda	26.6%	22.7%
76	Wallis and Futuna Islands	26.6%	26.3%
77	Canada	26.5%	25.0%
78	Monaco	26.5%	30.2%
79	Iceland	26.4%	22.3%
80	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	26.4%	22.4%
81	Denmark	26.1%	25.6%
82	Russian Federation	25.9%	22.5%
83	Uruguay	25.5%	22.2%
84	Aruba	25.4%	25.1%
85	United Kingdom	25.4%	23.9%
86	New Zealand	25.3%	23.3%
87	Curaçao	25.2%	23.3%
88	Barbados	25.2%	23.6%
89	United States Virgin Islands	25.2%	26.4%
90	Gibraltar	25.1%	23.0%
91	Northern Mariana Islands	25.0%	27.3%
92	Australia	24.9%	22.9%
93	Brazil	24.8%	20.2%
94	Türkiye	24.7%	19.8%
95	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	24.6%	19.9%
96	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	24.6%	23.6%
97	Grenada	24.4%	17.6%
98	Republic of Moldova	24.2%	20.2%
99	United States of America	23.9%	22.5%
100	Colombia	23.2%	18.6%
101	Saint Kitts and Nevis	23.2%	18.8%
102	Saint Lucia	23.1%	18.4%
103	New Caledonia	23.1%	20.2%
104	Jamaica	23.0%	16.7%
105	Tunisia	22.9%	18.5%
106	Viet Nam	22.9%	17.8%
107	Georgia	22.7%	19.7%
108	Bahamas	22.7%	20.0%
109	Faroe Islands	22.6%	21.0%
110	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	22.4%	20.8%
111	Argentina	22.1%	18.2%
112	Brunei Darussalam	22.1%	16.9%
113	Seychelles	22.0%	16.8%
114	Sri Lanka	21.6%	18.8%
115	Holy See	21.6%	23.1%
116	Azerbaijan	21.1%	16.4%
117	Palau	21.1%	19.7%
118	Cabo Verde	20.5%	14.0%
119	Bhutan	20.5%	13.1%
120	Dominica	20.4%	17.6%
121	Panama	20.3%	17.0%
122	Peru	20.1%	15.9%
123	Ecuador	19.7%	15.3%
124	Malaysia	19.7%	14.5%
125	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	19.6%	18.3%
126	Greenland	19.5%	17.2%
127	Mexico	19.0%	15.4%
128	American Samoa	18.7%	18.5%
129	Morocco	18.5%	14.7%
130	Guam	18.4%	18.4%
131	Algeria	18.3%	14.1%
132	Western Sahara	17.6%	13.0%
133	Libya	17.3%	14.1%
134	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	17.1%	15.6%
135	India	17.0%	12.9%
136	Lebanon	17.0%	15.5%
137	El Salvador	16.8%	13.5%
138	Dominican Republic	16.6%	13.8%
139	Indonesia	16.4%	13.8%
140	Israel	16.1%	15.2%
141	Suriname	16.0%	13.8%
142	Bangladesh	15.8%	11.5%
143	Belize	15.6%	11.0%
144	Kazakhstan	15.1%	13.0%
145	Nicaragua	15.1%	11.1%
146	Myanmar	14.8%	12.3%
147	Paraguay	14.5%	10.9%
148	Mongolia	14.4%	11.4%
149	Jordan	13.8%	10.8%
150	Cambodia	13.5%	9.9%
151	Tokelau	13.5%	11.4%
152	Philippines	13.0%	10.0%
153	French Guiana	12.9%	11.5%
154	Nepal	12.8%	9.8%
155	South Africa	12.7%	10.0%
156	Niue	12.6%	15.1%
157	Turkmenistan	12.5%	9.9%
158	Marshall Islands	12.2%	11.7%
159	Honduras	12.1%	8.7%
160	Lao People's Democratic Republic	12.0%	8.5%
161	Guyana	11.9%	10.8%
162	Fiji	11.9%	9.4%
163	Uzbekistan	11.8%	9.5%
164	Guatemala	11.7%	8.2%
165	Kyrgyzstan	11.5%	9.4%
166	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	11.3%	8.9%
167	Egypt	11.2%	8.6%
168	Djibouti	10.8%	9.1%
169	Tonga	10.5%	10.2%
170	Syrian Arab Republic	10.4%	8.3%
171	Saudi Arabia	9.8%	6.8%
172	Haiti	9.8%	7.4%
173	State of Palestine	9.8%	6.9%
174	Bahrain	9.5%	7.6%
175	Botswana	9.5%	6.8%
176	Tajikistan	9.4%	7.0%
177	Eswatini	8.9%	6.2%
178	Kiribati	8.5%	6.7%
179	Tuvalu	8.5%	9.5%
180	Timor-Leste	8.5%	6.2%
181	Iraq	8.4%	6.7%
182	Ghana	8.3%	6.6%
183	Papua New Guinea	8.3%	6.6%
184	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	8.3%	7.6%
185	Oman	8.2%	5.2%
186	Gabon	8.1%	6.4%
187	Namibia	8.1%	6.2%
188	Samoa	8.0%	8.2%
189	Solomon Islands	8.0%	6.3%
190	Vanuatu	7.9%	6.0%
191	Lesotho	7.8%	4.7%
192	Mayotte	7.7%	5.8%
193	Comoros	7.3%	5.9%
194	Pakistan	7.3%	5.8%
195	Rwanda	7.3%	5.2%
196	Sao Tome and Principe	7.2%	5.9%
197	Nauru	7.2%	5.2%
198	Senegal	7.0%	5.2%
199	Equatorial Guinea	7.0%	5.6%
200	Kuwait	6.7%	5.9%
201	Kenya	6.7%	5.0%
202	Guinea-Bissau	6.5%	5.0%
203	Eritrea	6.4%	5.6%
204	Gambia	6.4%	4.9%
205	Yemen	6.3%	4.4%
206	Sierra Leone	6.3%	4.9%
207	Ethiopia	6.2%	4.9%
208	Sudan	6.1%	4.8%
209	Madagascar	5.9%	5.0%
210	Malawi	5.9%	4.0%
211	Congo	5.8%	5.1%
212	Zimbabwe	5.8%	4.2%
213	Togo	5.7%	4.9%
214	Zambia	5.6%	4.1%
215	South Sudan	5.6%	5.6%
216	Cameroon	5.5%	4.2%
217	Guinea	5.5%	4.2%
218	Liberia	5.5%	4.5%
219	Uganda	5.4%	3.7%
220	Burkina Faso	5.4%	4.1%
221	Burundi	5.3%	3.7%
222	Benin	5.3%	4.4%
223	Mauritania	5.3%	4.3%
224	Côte d'Ivoire	5.2%	4.2%
225	United Republic of Tanzania	5.0%	4.0%
226	Nigeria	4.9%	4.2%
227	Afghanistan	4.7%	3.6%
228	Angola	4.4%	3.7%
229	Mozambique	4.1%	3.2%
230	Democratic Republic of the Congo	3.9%	3.4%
231	Somalia	3.9%	3.2%
232	Niger	3.9%	3.2%
233	Mali	3.9%	3.1%
234	Chad	3.6%	3.0%
235	Qatar	3.5%	2.5%
236	United Arab Emirates	2.5%	2.5%
237	Central African Republic	2.3%	2.0%

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