Share aged 65+ by country, 2058

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

◀▶2058

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2048
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	52.4%	43.9%
2	China, Macao SAR	42.5%	31.7%
3	Republic of Korea	42.1%	38.5%
4	China, Taiwan Province of China	41.1%	37.2%
5	Andorra	39.7%	35.3%
6	Puerto Rico	39.5%	35.9%
7	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	37.4%	34.1%
8	Japan	37.3%	37.0%
9	Italy	36.9%	36.5%
10	Malta	36.8%	28.7%
11	Spain	36.5%	35.4%
12	China	36.3%	29.7%
13	Bermuda	36.2%	35.1%
14	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	35.9%	34.6%
15	Poland	35.6%	30.0%
16	Bosnia and Herzegovina	35.0%	33.0%
17	San Marino	34.7%	36.8%
18	Greece	34.2%	34.1%
19	Ukraine	33.9%	27.3%
20	Albania	33.1%	26.9%
21	Martinique	33.1%	35.8%
22	Estonia	32.9%	28.7%
23	Slovakia	32.9%	28.8%
24	Cuba	32.7%	29.5%
25	Singapore	32.6%	25.2%
26	French Polynesia	32.6%	26.9%
27	Maldives	32.5%	18.1%
28	Slovenia	32.3%	31.1%
29	Austria	32.2%	30.2%
30	British Virgin Islands	32.2%	26.0%
31	Portugal	32.1%	32.8%
32	Lithuania	32.1%	27.9%
33	Saint Helena	32.0%	32.1%
34	Isle of Man	31.8%	31.6%
35	Latvia	31.8%	28.0%
36	Guernsey	31.7%	30.3%
37	Cyprus	31.6%	24.6%
38	Switzerland	31.6%	29.6%
39	Croatia	31.5%	30.0%
40	Bulgaria	31.5%	28.7%
41	Belarus	31.4%	26.1%
42	Thailand	31.3%	28.7%
43	Chile	31.3%	25.3%
44	Czechia	30.8%	29.0%
45	Guadeloupe	30.7%	33.3%
46	Germany	30.7%	30.1%
47	Serbia	30.6%	28.2%
48	Anguilla	30.3%	26.9%
49	Mauritius	30.3%	25.2%
50	North Macedonia	30.1%	26.7%
51	Costa Rica	29.7%	23.7%
52	Finland	29.7%	27.7%
53	Turks and Caicos Islands	29.5%	25.3%
54	Liechtenstein	29.5%	29.7%
55	Romania	29.4%	27.5%
56	Jersey	29.0%	28.3%
57	Armenia	28.8%	22.6%
58	Norway	28.8%	26.2%
59	Belgium	28.7%	27.5%
60	Luxembourg	28.5%	25.1%
61	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	28.3%	20.1%
62	Saint Martin (French part)	28.3%	33.3%
63	Montenegro	28.3%	25.7%
64	Hungary	28.2%	27.2%
65	Montserrat	27.9%	24.8%
66	Sweden	27.8%	25.2%
67	Cayman Islands	27.7%	24.1%
68	Trinidad and Tobago	27.6%	22.2%
69	Iceland	27.5%	23.1%
70	Saint Barthélemy	27.4%	25.7%
71	France	27.4%	27.5%
72	Antigua and Barbuda	27.3%	23.4%
73	Netherlands	27.3%	26.1%
74	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	27.3%	23.0%
75	Ireland	27.1%	25.3%
76	Canada	26.8%	25.2%
77	Réunion	26.8%	26.3%
78	Wallis and Futuna Islands	26.4%	26.7%
79	Denmark	26.4%	25.6%
80	Uruguay	26.3%	22.7%
81	Curaçao	26.3%	23.5%
82	Russian Federation	26.0%	22.9%
83	Cook Islands	25.9%	27.7%
84	New Zealand	25.9%	23.6%
85	United Kingdom	25.8%	24.2%
86	Monaco	25.8%	29.4%
87	Grenada	25.7%	18.5%
88	Gibraltar	25.7%	23.5%
89	Türkiye	25.7%	20.9%
90	Barbados	25.6%	23.9%
91	Aruba	25.5%	25.2%
92	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	25.5%	20.8%
93	Brazil	25.5%	21.2%
94	Australia	25.2%	23.3%
95	United States Virgin Islands	25.0%	26.3%
96	Jamaica	24.7%	17.8%
97	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	24.7%	23.8%
98	Republic of Moldova	24.7%	20.6%
99	Colombia	24.4%	19.4%
100	Saint Lucia	24.3%	19.3%
101	United States of America	24.2%	22.8%
102	Northern Mariana Islands	24.2%	27.2%
103	Saint Kitts and Nevis	24.0%	19.5%
104	Viet Nam	23.8%	18.6%
105	Tunisia	23.7%	19.3%
106	New Caledonia	23.5%	20.9%
107	Bahamas	23.4%	20.5%
108	Georgia	23.3%	20.1%
109	Seychelles	23.1%	17.7%
110	Argentina	23.0%	19.0%
111	Faroe Islands	23.0%	21.2%
112	Brunei Darussalam	23.0%	18.0%
113	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	22.9%	21.1%
114	Sri Lanka	22.1%	19.5%
115	Bhutan	22.1%	14.3%
116	Azerbaijan	22.0%	17.1%
117	Cabo Verde	22.0%	15.0%
118	Holy See	21.8%	23.0%
119	Palau	21.5%	20.0%
120	Dominica	21.3%	17.9%
121	Panama	20.9%	17.6%
122	Peru	20.9%	16.7%
123	Ecuador	20.7%	16.1%
124	Malaysia	20.7%	15.5%
125	Greenland	20.3%	17.4%
126	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	20.0%	18.7%
127	Mexico	19.8%	16.1%
128	Morocco	19.2%	15.5%
129	Algeria	18.8%	15.0%
130	American Samoa	18.6%	18.7%
131	Guam	18.5%	18.4%
132	Western Sahara	18.0%	14.2%
133	India	17.9%	13.7%
134	El Salvador	17.9%	14.0%
135	Libya	17.6%	15.0%
136	Dominican Republic	17.3%	14.3%
137	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	17.2%	16.0%
138	Lebanon	17.2%	15.9%
139	Indonesia	16.8%	14.4%
140	Belize	16.8%	11.8%
141	Bangladesh	16.6%	12.3%
142	Suriname	16.4%	14.3%
143	Israel	16.3%	15.4%
144	Nicaragua	16.0%	11.9%
145	Kazakhstan	15.4%	13.3%
146	Paraguay	15.3%	11.5%
147	Myanmar	15.3%	12.8%
148	Mongolia	14.8%	11.9%
149	Jordan	14.4%	11.4%
150	Cambodia	14.2%	10.7%
151	Tokelau	14.1%	11.8%
152	Philippines	13.8%	10.5%
153	Nepal	13.5%	10.3%
154	Turkmenistan	13.3%	10.2%
155	South Africa	13.2%	10.5%
156	French Guiana	13.0%	11.9%
157	Honduras	12.8%	9.4%
158	Lao People's Democratic Republic	12.8%	9.1%
159	Guatemala	12.6%	8.8%
160	Guyana	12.5%	11.0%
161	Uzbekistan	12.3%	9.8%
162	Niue	12.3%	14.1%
163	Fiji	12.3%	9.9%
164	Kyrgyzstan	12.0%	9.6%
165	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	11.9%	9.3%
166	Egypt	11.7%	9.1%
167	Djibouti	11.2%	9.5%
168	Syrian Arab Republic	10.8%	8.7%
169	Marshall Islands	10.7%	12.4%
170	State of Palestine	10.5%	7.3%
171	Botswana	10.5%	7.1%
172	Saudi Arabia	10.3%	7.4%
173	Tonga	10.3%	10.4%
174	Haiti	10.3%	7.8%
175	Tajikistan	10.0%	7.3%
176	Bahrain	9.9%	8.0%
177	Eswatini	9.5%	6.7%
178	Timor-Leste	9.1%	6.4%
179	Iraq	8.9%	7.0%
180	Kiribati	8.9%	7.0%
181	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	8.9%	7.6%
182	Oman	8.7%	5.7%
183	Tuvalu	8.7%	9.1%
184	Namibia	8.7%	6.5%
185	Ghana	8.6%	6.9%
186	Papua New Guinea	8.6%	6.9%
187	Vanuatu	8.4%	6.3%
188	Gabon	8.3%	6.8%
189	Lesotho	8.3%	5.2%
190	Solomon Islands	8.2%	6.6%
191	Samoa	8.0%	8.1%
192	Mayotte	7.9%	6.2%
193	Rwanda	7.7%	5.7%
194	Pakistan	7.6%	6.1%
195	Comoros	7.5%	6.2%
196	Sao Tome and Principe	7.4%	6.3%
197	Senegal	7.4%	5.5%
198	Nauru	7.3%	5.6%
199	Equatorial Guinea	7.2%	5.8%
200	Kenya	7.0%	5.3%
201	Gambia	6.8%	5.1%
202	Guinea-Bissau	6.8%	5.3%
203	Kuwait	6.8%	6.3%
204	Yemen	6.7%	4.7%
205	Eritrea	6.7%	5.7%
206	Sierra Leone	6.7%	5.2%
207	Ethiopia	6.6%	5.1%
208	Sudan	6.4%	5.0%
209	Madagascar	6.2%	5.1%
210	Malawi	6.2%	4.4%
211	Uganda	5.9%	3.9%
212	Guinea	5.9%	4.4%
213	Congo	5.9%	5.2%
214	Zambia	5.9%	4.4%
215	Zimbabwe	5.9%	4.7%
216	Togo	5.9%	5.0%
217	Cameroon	5.7%	4.4%
218	Burkina Faso	5.7%	4.4%
219	Benin	5.6%	4.5%
220	Liberia	5.6%	4.7%
221	South Sudan	5.6%	5.8%
222	Burundi	5.5%	4.1%
223	Mauritania	5.5%	4.4%
224	Côte d'Ivoire	5.3%	4.4%
225	United Republic of Tanzania	5.2%	4.2%
226	Afghanistan	5.0%	3.8%
227	Nigeria	5.0%	4.3%
228	Angola	4.6%	3.8%
229	Mozambique	4.4%	3.3%
230	Democratic Republic of the Congo	4.1%	3.4%
231	Somalia	4.0%	3.3%
232	Niger	4.0%	3.3%
233	Mali	4.0%	3.3%
234	Chad	3.8%	3.1%
235	Qatar	3.6%	2.8%
236	United Arab Emirates	2.8%	2.3%
237	Central African Republic	2.4%	2.0%

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