Share aged 65+ by country, 2060

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

◀▶2060

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2050
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	54.0%	45.7%
2	China, Macao SAR	44.2%	33.5%
3	Republic of Korea	43.2%	39.4%
4	China, Taiwan Province of China	41.7%	38.4%
5	Puerto Rico	40.6%	36.5%
6	Andorra	40.3%	36.3%
7	Malta	38.3%	30.1%
8	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	37.3%	35.1%
9	Japan	37.2%	37.2%
10	China	37.0%	30.6%
11	Italy	36.7%	36.7%
12	Spain	36.3%	35.9%
13	Poland	36.3%	31.4%
14	Bermuda	36.0%	35.8%
15	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	35.7%	35.4%
16	Maldives	35.1%	20.8%
17	Albania	35.0%	27.6%
18	Ukraine	34.7%	28.6%
19	Bosnia and Herzegovina	34.7%	33.8%
20	Singapore	34.5%	26.4%
21	San Marino	34.0%	36.8%
22	Greece	33.9%	34.5%
23	Slovakia	33.3%	29.8%
24	French Polynesia	33.2%	28.1%
25	Estonia	33.0%	29.6%
26	Lithuania	33.0%	28.4%
27	Cuba	32.9%	30.0%
28	British Virgin Islands	32.8%	27.7%
29	Chile	32.7%	26.3%
30	Austria	32.4%	30.7%
31	Cyprus	32.3%	26.1%
32	Slovenia	32.1%	31.6%
33	Martinique	32.1%	35.3%
34	Latvia	31.9%	28.7%
35	Belarus	31.8%	27.2%
36	Guernsey	31.7%	30.5%
37	Switzerland	31.7%	30.1%
38	Thailand	31.7%	29.4%
39	Portugal	31.7%	33.0%
40	Isle of Man	31.7%	31.6%
41	Croatia	31.6%	30.6%
42	Mauritius	31.6%	25.9%
43	Bulgaria	31.4%	29.3%
44	Saint Helena	31.3%	32.4%
45	Serbia	30.9%	28.9%
46	Costa Rica	30.8%	24.9%
47	Czechia	30.8%	29.4%
48	North Macedonia	30.7%	27.4%
49	Germany	30.6%	30.2%
50	Anguilla	30.5%	28.1%
51	Finland	30.1%	28.1%
52	Turks and Caicos Islands	30.0%	26.4%
53	Guadeloupe	29.9%	32.9%
54	Armenia	29.5%	23.7%
55	Liechtenstein	29.4%	29.7%
56	Romania	29.3%	27.7%
57	Norway	29.2%	26.7%
58	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	29.1%	21.9%
59	Luxembourg	29.1%	25.8%
60	Jersey	28.9%	28.7%
61	Belgium	28.9%	27.7%
62	Iceland	28.7%	23.8%
63	Montenegro	28.6%	26.4%
64	Sweden	28.3%	25.5%
65	Hungary	28.3%	27.3%
66	Montserrat	28.3%	25.7%
67	Antigua and Barbuda	28.1%	24.2%
68	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	28.1%	23.7%
69	Cayman Islands	28.1%	25.0%
70	Trinidad and Tobago	28.1%	23.5%
71	Curaçao	27.8%	23.7%
72	Netherlands	27.7%	26.2%
73	Saint Barthélemy	27.5%	25.9%
74	Uruguay	27.3%	23.3%
75	Ireland	27.2%	26.0%
76	Canada	27.2%	25.5%
77	France	27.2%	27.5%
78	Grenada	26.8%	19.8%
79	Denmark	26.8%	25.6%
80	Türkiye	26.6%	21.9%
81	Jamaica	26.5%	19.1%
82	Réunion	26.5%	26.6%
83	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	26.4%	21.6%
84	Saint Martin (French part)	26.3%	32.7%
85	New Zealand	26.3%	23.9%
86	Gibraltar	26.2%	24.0%
87	Brazil	26.2%	22.2%
88	United Kingdom	26.1%	24.5%
89	Wallis and Futuna Islands	26.1%	26.7%
90	Barbados	25.9%	24.3%
91	Russian Federation	25.8%	23.6%
92	Aruba	25.6%	25.2%
93	Colombia	25.6%	20.3%
94	Saint Lucia	25.6%	20.2%
95	Australia	25.5%	23.7%
96	Monaco	25.3%	28.6%
97	Republic of Moldova	25.0%	21.4%
98	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	24.7%	24.0%
99	United States Virgin Islands	24.7%	26.1%
100	Cook Islands	24.6%	27.7%
101	Saint Kitts and Nevis	24.6%	20.3%
102	United States of America	24.4%	23.0%
103	Tunisia	24.4%	20.2%
104	Viet Nam	24.4%	19.7%
105	Bahamas	24.2%	21.0%
106	Seychelles	24.1%	18.7%
107	Argentina	24.0%	19.7%
108	New Caledonia	23.8%	21.4%
109	Brunei Darussalam	23.8%	19.0%
110	Georgia	23.6%	20.6%
111	Bhutan	23.6%	15.6%
112	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	23.5%	21.3%
113	Cabo Verde	23.4%	16.2%
114	Northern Mariana Islands	23.3%	26.8%
115	Faroe Islands	23.2%	21.3%
116	Azerbaijan	22.8%	17.9%
117	Sri Lanka	22.7%	20.1%
118	Dominica	22.2%	18.4%
119	Ecuador	21.7%	17.0%
120	Peru	21.7%	17.5%
121	Holy See	21.6%	22.6%
122	Palau	21.6%	20.3%
123	Malaysia	21.6%	16.5%
124	Panama	21.5%	18.3%
125	Greenland	21.2%	17.6%
126	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	20.6%	19.1%
127	Mexico	20.6%	16.8%
128	Morocco	19.9%	16.2%
129	El Salvador	19.3%	14.5%
130	Algeria	19.2%	15.9%
131	Guam	18.8%	18.4%
132	India	18.7%	14.5%
133	Western Sahara	18.3%	15.3%
134	American Samoa	18.2%	18.8%
135	Dominican Republic	18.0%	14.9%
136	Belize	18.0%	12.6%
137	Libya	18.0%	15.7%
138	Bangladesh	17.5%	13.3%
139	Lebanon	17.5%	16.3%
140	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	17.3%	16.3%
141	Indonesia	17.2%	15.0%
142	Nicaragua	16.9%	12.6%
143	Suriname	16.8%	14.8%
144	Israel	16.4%	15.6%
145	Paraguay	16.0%	12.2%
146	Myanmar	15.8%	13.4%
147	Kazakhstan	15.6%	13.7%
148	Tokelau	15.2%	12.2%
149	Mongolia	15.0%	12.4%
150	Jordan	15.0%	11.9%
151	Cambodia	14.7%	11.4%
152	Philippines	14.6%	11.0%
153	Nepal	14.3%	10.9%
154	Turkmenistan	14.1%	10.7%
155	Honduras	13.6%	10.0%
156	South Africa	13.6%	11.1%
157	Guatemala	13.5%	9.5%
158	Lao People's Democratic Republic	13.5%	9.7%
159	Guyana	13.2%	11.1%
160	French Guiana	12.9%	12.2%
161	Uzbekistan	12.7%	10.2%
162	Fiji	12.7%	10.5%
163	Kyrgyzstan	12.5%	10.0%
164	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	12.4%	9.7%
165	Egypt	12.0%	9.6%
166	Niue	11.8%	13.8%
167	Djibouti	11.5%	9.8%
168	Syrian Arab Republic	11.4%	9.2%
169	Botswana	11.4%	7.6%
170	State of Palestine	11.2%	7.8%
171	Haiti	10.8%	8.3%
172	Saudi Arabia	10.7%	8.0%
173	Tajikistan	10.4%	7.7%
174	Bahrain	10.2%	8.4%
175	Tonga	10.0%	10.6%
176	Eswatini	9.9%	7.3%
177	Timor-Leste	9.8%	6.9%
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	9.5%	7.7%
179	Iraq	9.3%	7.3%
180	Kiribati	9.3%	7.3%
181	Oman	9.2%	6.3%
182	Namibia	9.2%	6.9%
183	Marshall Islands	9.1%	12.8%
184	Papua New Guinea	9.0%	7.3%
185	Ghana	8.9%	7.3%
186	Tuvalu	8.8%	8.7%
187	Vanuatu	8.8%	6.7%
188	Lesotho	8.8%	5.8%
189	Gabon	8.5%	7.1%
190	Solomon Islands	8.4%	7.0%
191	Mayotte	8.1%	6.7%
192	Rwanda	8.0%	6.1%
193	Samoa	7.9%	8.1%
194	Senegal	7.9%	5.9%
195	Pakistan	7.9%	6.3%
196	Comoros	7.6%	6.5%
197	Sao Tome and Principe	7.6%	6.6%
198	Gambia	7.3%	5.3%
199	Kenya	7.3%	5.6%
200	Nauru	7.3%	6.1%
201	Guinea-Bissau	7.2%	5.6%
202	Equatorial Guinea	7.2%	6.1%
203	Yemen	7.1%	5.1%
204	Eritrea	7.1%	5.8%
205	Ethiopia	7.0%	5.3%
206	Kuwait	7.0%	6.6%
207	Sierra Leone	7.0%	5.4%
208	Sudan	6.8%	5.2%
209	Malawi	6.6%	4.8%
210	Uganda	6.4%	4.2%
211	Madagascar	6.4%	5.3%
212	Guinea	6.3%	4.6%
213	Zambia	6.1%	4.7%
214	Cameroon	6.0%	4.7%
215	Congo	6.0%	5.4%
216	Togo	6.0%	5.2%
217	Burkina Faso	6.0%	4.6%
218	Zimbabwe	5.9%	5.2%
219	Benin	5.8%	4.7%
220	Mauritania	5.8%	4.6%
221	Liberia	5.8%	4.9%
222	Burundi	5.6%	4.5%
223	United Republic of Tanzania	5.5%	4.4%
224	South Sudan	5.5%	5.9%
225	Afghanistan	5.4%	4.0%
226	Côte d'Ivoire	5.4%	4.7%
227	Nigeria	5.2%	4.5%
228	Angola	4.7%	4.0%
229	Mozambique	4.6%	3.5%
230	Democratic Republic of the Congo	4.2%	3.5%
231	Somalia	4.2%	3.5%
232	Niger	4.2%	3.5%
233	Mali	4.1%	3.4%
234	Chad	4.0%	3.2%
235	Qatar	3.7%	2.9%
236	United Arab Emirates	3.3%	2.1%
237	Central African Republic	2.6%	2.0%

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