Share aged 65+ by country, 2057

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

◀▶2057

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2047
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	51.6%	42.8%
2	Republic of Korea	41.6%	37.8%
3	China, Macao SAR	41.6%	30.9%
4	China, Taiwan Province of China	40.8%	36.5%
5	Andorra	39.3%	34.7%
6	Puerto Rico	39.1%	35.5%
7	Japan	37.3%	36.9%
8	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	37.2%	33.5%
9	Italy	36.9%	36.3%
10	Spain	36.5%	35.0%
11	Bermuda	36.3%	34.8%
12	Malta	36.0%	28.1%
13	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	35.8%	34.4%
14	China	35.8%	29.1%
15	Poland	35.2%	29.3%
16	San Marino	35.1%	36.8%
17	Bosnia and Herzegovina	34.9%	32.5%
18	Greece	34.3%	33.8%
19	Martinique	33.5%	36.0%
20	Ukraine	33.4%	26.7%
21	Estonia	32.7%	28.4%
22	Slovakia	32.6%	28.3%
23	Cuba	32.5%	29.4%
24	Slovenia	32.3%	30.9%
25	Portugal	32.3%	32.7%
26	Albania	32.2%	26.7%
27	French Polynesia	32.1%	26.3%
28	Austria	32.0%	30.0%
29	British Virgin Islands	31.9%	25.1%
30	Isle of Man	31.8%	31.5%
31	Singapore	31.7%	24.6%
32	Guernsey	31.6%	30.1%
33	Croatia	31.5%	29.7%
34	Switzerland	31.5%	29.3%
35	Latvia	31.5%	27.8%
36	Lithuania	31.5%	27.7%
37	Bulgaria	31.4%	28.4%
38	Saint Helena	31.3%	32.0%
39	Cyprus	31.1%	24.0%
40	Guadeloupe	31.1%	33.4%
41	Maldives	31.1%	16.9%
42	Thailand	31.0%	28.3%
43	Belarus	31.0%	25.7%
44	Czechia	30.7%	28.8%
45	Chile	30.7%	24.8%
46	Germany	30.7%	30.0%
47	Serbia	30.4%	28.0%
48	Anguilla	30.2%	26.2%
49	North Macedonia	29.8%	26.4%
50	Liechtenstein	29.7%	29.5%
51	Mauritius	29.6%	24.7%
52	Finland	29.4%	27.5%
53	Romania	29.4%	27.4%
54	Turks and Caicos Islands	29.3%	24.7%
55	Costa Rica	29.2%	23.2%
56	Saint Martin (French part)	29.1%	33.5%
57	Jersey	29.0%	28.1%
58	Belgium	28.6%	27.3%
59	Norway	28.5%	26.0%
60	Armenia	28.2%	22.2%
61	Luxembourg	28.2%	24.7%
62	Hungary	28.0%	27.1%
63	Montenegro	28.0%	25.3%
64	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	27.7%	19.3%
65	Montserrat	27.7%	25.1%
66	Cayman Islands	27.5%	23.6%
67	Sweden	27.5%	25.1%
68	France	27.4%	27.4%
69	Saint Barthélemy	27.2%	25.6%
70	Trinidad and Tobago	27.2%	21.6%
71	Netherlands	27.1%	26.0%
72	Ireland	27.0%	24.9%
73	Iceland	26.9%	22.7%
74	Antigua and Barbuda	26.9%	23.1%
75	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	26.9%	22.7%
76	Réunion	26.8%	26.3%
77	Wallis and Futuna Islands	26.6%	26.6%
78	Canada	26.6%	25.1%
79	Cook Islands	26.4%	27.7%
80	Denmark	26.2%	25.6%
81	Monaco	26.2%	29.8%
82	Russian Federation	26.0%	22.6%
83	Uruguay	25.9%	22.5%
84	Curaçao	25.7%	23.4%
85	United Kingdom	25.6%	24.1%
86	New Zealand	25.6%	23.4%
87	Aruba	25.5%	25.1%
88	Gibraltar	25.4%	23.3%
89	Barbados	25.4%	23.7%
90	Türkiye	25.2%	20.4%
91	Brazil	25.2%	20.7%
92	Grenada	25.1%	18.0%
93	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	25.1%	20.3%
94	United States Virgin Islands	25.1%	26.3%
95	Australia	25.0%	23.1%
96	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	24.6%	23.7%
97	Northern Mariana Islands	24.6%	27.3%
98	Republic of Moldova	24.5%	20.4%
99	United States of America	24.1%	22.6%
100	Colombia	23.8%	19.0%
101	Jamaica	23.8%	17.2%
102	Saint Lucia	23.7%	18.8%
103	Saint Kitts and Nevis	23.6%	19.1%
104	Tunisia	23.3%	18.9%
105	New Caledonia	23.3%	20.5%
106	Viet Nam	23.3%	18.1%
107	Georgia	23.0%	19.9%
108	Bahamas	23.0%	20.2%
109	Faroe Islands	22.8%	21.1%
110	Argentina	22.6%	18.6%
111	Brunei Darussalam	22.6%	17.5%
112	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	22.6%	21.0%
113	Seychelles	22.5%	17.3%
114	Sri Lanka	21.9%	19.2%
115	Holy See	21.7%	23.2%
116	Azerbaijan	21.6%	16.7%
117	Palau	21.3%	19.9%
118	Bhutan	21.3%	13.7%
119	Cabo Verde	21.2%	14.5%
120	Dominica	20.8%	17.7%
121	Panama	20.6%	17.3%
122	Peru	20.5%	16.3%
123	Ecuador	20.2%	15.7%
124	Malaysia	20.2%	15.0%
125	Greenland	19.9%	17.3%
126	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	19.8%	18.5%
127	Mexico	19.4%	15.7%
128	Morocco	18.9%	15.1%
129	American Samoa	18.7%	18.7%
130	Algeria	18.6%	14.5%
131	Guam	18.4%	18.4%
132	Western Sahara	17.8%	13.6%
133	Libya	17.5%	14.6%
134	India	17.4%	13.3%
135	El Salvador	17.3%	13.8%
136	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	17.2%	15.8%
137	Lebanon	17.1%	15.7%
138	Dominican Republic	17.0%	14.1%
139	Indonesia	16.6%	14.1%
140	Israel	16.2%	15.3%
141	Suriname	16.2%	14.0%
142	Bangladesh	16.2%	11.9%
143	Belize	16.2%	11.4%
144	Nicaragua	15.6%	11.5%
145	Kazakhstan	15.3%	13.1%
146	Myanmar	15.0%	12.6%
147	Paraguay	14.9%	11.2%
148	Mongolia	14.6%	11.6%
149	Jordan	14.1%	11.1%
150	Cambodia	13.9%	10.3%
151	Tokelau	13.8%	11.8%
152	Philippines	13.4%	10.3%
153	Nepal	13.1%	10.1%
154	South Africa	13.0%	10.3%
155	Turkmenistan	12.9%	10.0%
156	French Guiana	12.9%	11.7%
157	Niue	12.5%	14.3%
158	Honduras	12.4%	9.0%
159	Lao People's Democratic Republic	12.4%	8.8%
160	Guyana	12.2%	10.9%
161	Guatemala	12.2%	8.5%
162	Uzbekistan	12.1%	9.6%
163	Fiji	12.1%	9.6%
164	Kyrgyzstan	11.8%	9.5%
165	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	11.6%	9.1%
166	Marshall Islands	11.5%	12.0%
167	Egypt	11.4%	8.8%
168	Djibouti	11.0%	9.3%
169	Syrian Arab Republic	10.6%	8.5%
170	Tonga	10.4%	10.3%
171	Saudi Arabia	10.1%	7.1%
172	State of Palestine	10.1%	7.1%
173	Haiti	10.0%	7.6%
174	Botswana	10.0%	6.9%
175	Tajikistan	9.7%	7.2%
176	Bahrain	9.7%	7.8%
177	Eswatini	9.2%	6.5%
178	Timor-Leste	8.8%	6.3%
179	Kiribati	8.7%	6.8%
180	Iraq	8.6%	6.8%
181	Tuvalu	8.6%	9.3%
182	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	8.6%	7.6%
183	Ghana	8.5%	6.8%
184	Papua New Guinea	8.5%	6.8%
185	Oman	8.4%	5.4%
186	Namibia	8.4%	6.3%
187	Gabon	8.2%	6.6%
188	Vanuatu	8.2%	6.2%
189	Solomon Islands	8.1%	6.5%
190	Samoa	8.0%	8.2%
191	Lesotho	8.0%	4.9%
192	Mayotte	7.8%	6.0%
193	Rwanda	7.5%	5.5%
194	Comoros	7.4%	6.1%
195	Pakistan	7.4%	5.9%
196	Sao Tome and Principe	7.3%	6.1%
197	Nauru	7.3%	5.4%
198	Senegal	7.2%	5.4%
199	Equatorial Guinea	7.1%	5.7%
200	Kenya	6.8%	5.2%
201	Guinea-Bissau	6.7%	5.1%
202	Kuwait	6.7%	6.1%
203	Gambia	6.6%	5.0%
204	Yemen	6.5%	4.5%
205	Eritrea	6.5%	5.7%
206	Sierra Leone	6.5%	5.0%
207	Ethiopia	6.4%	5.0%
208	Sudan	6.2%	4.9%
209	Malawi	6.1%	4.2%
210	Madagascar	6.0%	5.1%
211	Congo	5.9%	5.2%
212	Zimbabwe	5.9%	4.5%
213	Togo	5.8%	4.9%
214	Guinea	5.7%	4.3%
215	Zambia	5.7%	4.3%
216	Uganda	5.6%	3.8%
217	Cameroon	5.6%	4.3%
218	Burkina Faso	5.6%	4.2%
219	South Sudan	5.6%	5.7%
220	Benin	5.5%	4.5%
221	Liberia	5.5%	4.6%
222	Burundi	5.4%	3.9%
223	Mauritania	5.4%	4.3%
224	Côte d'Ivoire	5.3%	4.3%
225	United Republic of Tanzania	5.1%	4.1%
226	Nigeria	5.0%	4.3%
227	Afghanistan	4.8%	3.7%
228	Angola	4.5%	3.8%
229	Mozambique	4.2%	3.3%
230	Democratic Republic of the Congo	4.0%	3.4%
231	Somalia	3.9%	3.3%
232	Niger	3.9%	3.3%
233	Mali	3.9%	3.2%
234	Chad	3.7%	3.1%
235	Qatar	3.5%	2.6%
236	United Arab Emirates	2.6%	2.4%
237	Central African Republic	2.4%	2.0%

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