Share aged 65+ by country, 2059

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

◀▶2059

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2049
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	53.2%	44.8%
2	China, Macao SAR	43.4%	32.6%
3	Republic of Korea	42.7%	39.0%
4	China, Taiwan Province of China	41.4%	37.9%
5	Andorra	40.1%	35.9%
6	Puerto Rico	40.0%	36.2%
7	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	37.6%	34.6%
8	Malta	37.6%	29.4%
9	Japan	37.2%	37.1%
10	Italy	36.8%	36.6%
11	China	36.7%	30.1%
12	Spain	36.4%	35.7%
13	Bermuda	36.1%	35.5%
14	Poland	36.0%	30.7%
15	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	35.8%	35.1%
16	Bosnia and Herzegovina	34.9%	33.4%
17	San Marino	34.4%	36.9%
18	Ukraine	34.3%	28.0%
19	Albania	34.0%	27.3%
20	Greece	34.0%	34.4%
21	Maldives	33.9%	19.4%
22	Singapore	33.5%	25.8%
23	Slovakia	33.1%	29.3%
24	Estonia	33.0%	29.1%
25	French Polynesia	32.9%	27.5%
26	Cuba	32.8%	29.7%
27	Martinique	32.6%	35.5%
28	Lithuania	32.6%	28.1%
29	British Virgin Islands	32.6%	26.9%
30	Austria	32.3%	30.5%
31	Slovenia	32.2%	31.4%
32	Cyprus	32.0%	25.4%
33	Chile	32.0%	25.8%
34	Portugal	31.9%	32.9%
35	Latvia	31.9%	28.4%
36	Saint Helena	31.8%	32.5%
37	Isle of Man	31.8%	31.6%
38	Guernsey	31.7%	30.4%
39	Switzerland	31.6%	29.8%
40	Belarus	31.6%	26.6%
41	Croatia	31.5%	30.3%
42	Thailand	31.5%	29.1%
43	Bulgaria	31.5%	28.9%
44	Mauritius	31.0%	25.6%
45	Czechia	30.9%	29.2%
46	Serbia	30.7%	28.6%
47	Germany	30.7%	30.2%
48	Anguilla	30.4%	27.5%
49	North Macedonia	30.4%	27.1%
50	Guadeloupe	30.3%	33.1%
51	Costa Rica	30.3%	24.3%
52	Finland	29.9%	27.9%
53	Turks and Caicos Islands	29.7%	25.9%
54	Liechtenstein	29.5%	29.7%
55	Romania	29.4%	27.5%
56	Armenia	29.2%	23.1%
57	Norway	29.0%	26.4%
58	Jersey	28.9%	28.5%
59	Belgium	28.8%	27.6%
60	Luxembourg	28.8%	25.5%
61	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	28.7%	21.0%
62	Montenegro	28.4%	26.1%
63	Hungary	28.2%	27.3%
64	Iceland	28.1%	23.4%
65	Sweden	28.1%	25.4%
66	Cayman Islands	27.9%	24.6%
67	Trinidad and Tobago	27.9%	22.9%
68	Montserrat	27.9%	25.2%
69	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	27.8%	23.4%
70	Antigua and Barbuda	27.7%	23.8%
71	Netherlands	27.5%	26.1%
72	Saint Barthélemy	27.5%	25.7%
73	Saint Martin (French part)	27.4%	33.0%
74	France	27.3%	27.5%
75	Ireland	27.1%	25.7%
76	Canada	27.0%	25.4%
77	Curaçao	27.0%	23.6%
78	Uruguay	26.8%	23.0%
79	Réunion	26.7%	26.4%
80	Denmark	26.6%	25.6%
81	Grenada	26.3%	19.1%
82	Wallis and Futuna Islands	26.2%	26.8%
83	Türkiye	26.1%	21.4%
84	New Zealand	26.1%	23.7%
85	United Kingdom	26.0%	24.4%
86	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	26.0%	21.2%
87	Gibraltar	25.9%	23.7%
88	Brazil	25.9%	21.7%
89	Russian Federation	25.9%	23.2%
90	Barbados	25.8%	24.2%
91	Aruba	25.6%	25.1%
92	Jamaica	25.6%	18.4%
93	Monaco	25.5%	29.0%
94	Australia	25.3%	23.5%
95	Cook Islands	25.3%	27.7%
96	Colombia	25.0%	19.9%
97	Saint Lucia	25.0%	19.7%
98	Republic of Moldova	24.9%	20.9%
99	United States Virgin Islands	24.9%	26.2%
100	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	24.7%	23.9%
101	United States of America	24.3%	22.9%
102	Saint Kitts and Nevis	24.3%	19.9%
103	Tunisia	24.1%	19.7%
104	Viet Nam	24.1%	19.2%
105	Bahamas	23.8%	20.7%
106	Northern Mariana Islands	23.8%	27.1%
107	New Caledonia	23.7%	21.2%
108	Seychelles	23.6%	18.2%
109	Argentina	23.5%	19.3%
110	Georgia	23.5%	20.4%
111	Brunei Darussalam	23.4%	18.5%
112	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	23.2%	21.2%
113	Faroe Islands	23.1%	21.2%
114	Bhutan	22.9%	14.9%
115	Cabo Verde	22.7%	15.6%
116	Azerbaijan	22.4%	17.4%
117	Sri Lanka	22.4%	19.8%
118	Dominica	21.8%	18.2%
119	Holy See	21.8%	22.8%
120	Palau	21.6%	20.2%
121	Peru	21.3%	17.1%
122	Ecuador	21.2%	16.5%
123	Panama	21.2%	18.0%
124	Malaysia	21.2%	16.0%
125	Greenland	20.8%	17.5%
126	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	20.3%	18.9%
127	Mexico	20.2%	16.4%
128	Morocco	19.6%	15.8%
129	Algeria	19.0%	15.5%
130	Guam	18.7%	18.4%
131	El Salvador	18.6%	14.3%
132	American Samoa	18.5%	18.8%
133	India	18.3%	14.1%
134	Western Sahara	18.2%	14.7%
135	Libya	17.8%	15.4%
136	Dominican Republic	17.6%	14.6%
137	Belize	17.4%	12.2%
138	Lebanon	17.3%	16.1%
139	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	17.2%	16.1%
140	Indonesia	17.0%	14.7%
141	Bangladesh	17.0%	12.8%
142	Suriname	16.6%	14.5%
143	Nicaragua	16.5%	12.2%
144	Israel	16.3%	15.5%
145	Paraguay	15.6%	11.9%
146	Kazakhstan	15.5%	13.5%
147	Myanmar	15.5%	13.1%
148	Mongolia	14.9%	12.1%
149	Jordan	14.7%	11.6%
150	Tokelau	14.6%	12.0%
151	Cambodia	14.5%	11.1%
152	Philippines	14.2%	10.8%
153	Nepal	13.9%	10.6%
154	Turkmenistan	13.7%	10.4%
155	South Africa	13.4%	10.8%
156	Honduras	13.2%	9.7%
157	Lao People's Democratic Republic	13.2%	9.4%
158	Guatemala	13.0%	9.1%
159	French Guiana	13.0%	12.0%
160	Guyana	12.8%	11.1%
161	Uzbekistan	12.5%	10.0%
162	Fiji	12.5%	10.2%
163	Kyrgyzstan	12.3%	9.8%
164	Niue	12.2%	13.7%
165	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	12.1%	9.5%
166	Egypt	11.9%	9.3%
167	Djibouti	11.3%	9.7%
168	Syrian Arab Republic	11.1%	8.9%
169	Botswana	11.0%	7.3%
170	State of Palestine	10.9%	7.6%
171	Haiti	10.6%	8.0%
172	Saudi Arabia	10.5%	7.7%
173	Tajikistan	10.2%	7.5%
174	Tonga	10.2%	10.5%
175	Bahrain	10.0%	8.2%
176	Marshall Islands	9.9%	12.6%
177	Eswatini	9.7%	7.0%
178	Timor-Leste	9.4%	6.6%
179	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	9.2%	7.6%
180	Iraq	9.1%	7.2%
181	Kiribati	9.1%	7.2%
182	Oman	9.0%	6.0%
183	Namibia	9.0%	6.7%
184	Ghana	8.8%	7.1%
185	Tuvalu	8.8%	8.8%
186	Papua New Guinea	8.8%	7.1%
187	Vanuatu	8.6%	6.5%
188	Lesotho	8.6%	5.5%
189	Gabon	8.4%	6.9%
190	Solomon Islands	8.3%	6.8%
191	Mayotte	8.0%	6.4%
192	Samoa	7.9%	8.1%
193	Pakistan	7.8%	6.2%
194	Rwanda	7.8%	5.9%
195	Comoros	7.6%	6.3%
196	Senegal	7.6%	5.7%
197	Sao Tome and Principe	7.5%	6.5%
198	Nauru	7.4%	5.8%
199	Kenya	7.2%	5.5%
200	Equatorial Guinea	7.2%	6.0%
201	Gambia	7.1%	5.2%
202	Guinea-Bissau	7.0%	5.4%
203	Yemen	6.9%	4.9%
204	Kuwait	6.9%	6.4%
205	Ethiopia	6.8%	5.2%
206	Eritrea	6.8%	5.7%
207	Sierra Leone	6.8%	5.3%
208	Sudan	6.6%	5.1%
209	Malawi	6.4%	4.6%
210	Madagascar	6.3%	5.2%
211	Uganda	6.1%	4.1%
212	Guinea	6.1%	4.5%
213	Congo	6.0%	5.3%
214	Zambia	6.0%	4.6%
215	Togo	6.0%	5.1%
216	Cameroon	5.9%	4.6%
217	Zimbabwe	5.9%	5.0%
218	Burkina Faso	5.8%	4.5%
219	Benin	5.7%	4.6%
220	Mauritania	5.7%	4.5%
221	Liberia	5.7%	4.8%
222	Burundi	5.6%	4.3%
223	South Sudan	5.5%	5.9%
224	Côte d'Ivoire	5.4%	4.5%
225	United Republic of Tanzania	5.3%	4.3%
226	Afghanistan	5.2%	3.9%
227	Nigeria	5.1%	4.4%
228	Angola	4.7%	3.9%
229	Mozambique	4.5%	3.4%
230	Democratic Republic of the Congo	4.1%	3.5%
231	Somalia	4.1%	3.4%
232	Niger	4.1%	3.4%
233	Mali	4.1%	3.4%
234	Chad	3.9%	3.1%
235	Qatar	3.6%	2.9%
236	United Arab Emirates	3.0%	2.2%
237	Central African Republic	2.5%	2.0%

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