Share aged 65+ by country, 2061

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

◀▶2061

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2051
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	54.8%	46.5%
2	China, Macao SAR	44.6%	34.6%
3	Republic of Korea	43.6%	39.7%
4	China, Taiwan Province of China	42.0%	38.9%
5	Puerto Rico	41.2%	36.8%
6	Andorra	40.6%	36.7%
7	Malta	38.9%	30.8%
8	China	37.4%	31.2%
9	Japan	37.1%	37.3%
10	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	37.0%	35.4%
11	Italy	36.6%	36.8%
12	Poland	36.5%	32.1%
13	Maldives	36.2%	22.2%
14	Spain	36.1%	36.1%
15	Bermuda	36.0%	36.0%
16	Albania	35.9%	28.1%
17	Singapore	35.5%	27.0%
18	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	35.1%	35.4%
19	Ukraine	35.0%	29.3%
20	Bosnia and Herzegovina	34.6%	34.1%
21	Greece	33.7%	34.6%
22	San Marino	33.6%	36.7%
23	Lithuania	33.4%	28.8%
24	French Polynesia	33.4%	28.8%
25	Slovakia	33.3%	30.3%
26	Chile	33.3%	26.8%
27	British Virgin Islands	33.1%	28.5%
28	Cuba	33.0%	30.3%
29	Estonia	32.9%	30.0%
30	Cyprus	32.6%	26.9%
31	Austria	32.5%	30.9%
32	Mauritius	32.3%	26.3%
33	Slovenia	31.9%	31.8%
34	Thailand	31.9%	29.6%
35	Belarus	31.9%	27.7%
36	Latvia	31.8%	29.1%
37	Guernsey	31.7%	30.6%
38	Croatia	31.7%	30.8%
39	Isle of Man	31.7%	31.7%
40	Switzerland	31.6%	30.3%
41	Portugal	31.5%	32.9%
42	Martinique	31.5%	35.1%
43	Costa Rica	31.4%	25.5%
44	Saint Helena	31.3%	31.9%
45	Bulgaria	31.2%	29.6%
46	Serbia	31.1%	29.1%
47	North Macedonia	31.0%	27.7%
48	Anguilla	30.6%	28.6%
49	Czechia	30.6%	29.7%
50	Germany	30.5%	30.3%
51	Turks and Caicos Islands	30.2%	27.0%
52	Finland	30.2%	28.3%
53	Armenia	29.8%	24.2%
54	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	29.4%	22.9%
55	Guadeloupe	29.4%	32.7%
56	Norway	29.4%	26.9%
57	Liechtenstein	29.4%	29.7%
58	Luxembourg	29.4%	26.1%
59	Romania	29.2%	27.9%
60	Iceland	29.1%	24.1%
61	Belgium	28.9%	27.8%
62	Montenegro	28.8%	26.8%
63	Jersey	28.7%	28.8%
64	Antigua and Barbuda	28.5%	24.6%
65	Curaçao	28.5%	23.9%
66	Montserrat	28.5%	25.9%
67	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	28.4%	24.1%
68	Sweden	28.4%	25.7%
69	Trinidad and Tobago	28.3%	24.2%
70	Hungary	28.3%	27.4%
71	Cayman Islands	28.1%	25.5%
72	Netherlands	27.9%	26.3%
73	Uruguay	27.8%	23.6%
74	Saint Barthélemy	27.7%	26.1%
75	Canada	27.4%	25.7%
76	Grenada	27.3%	20.5%
77	Jamaica	27.3%	19.7%
78	Ireland	27.2%	26.2%
79	Türkiye	27.1%	22.4%
80	France	27.1%	27.5%
81	Denmark	27.0%	25.6%
82	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	26.8%	22.1%
83	Brazil	26.6%	22.7%
84	Gibraltar	26.4%	24.2%
85	New Zealand	26.4%	24.1%
86	United Kingdom	26.3%	24.7%
87	Saint Lucia	26.3%	20.6%
88	Réunion	26.3%	26.6%
89	Colombia	26.2%	20.8%
90	Barbados	26.0%	24.5%
91	Wallis and Futuna Islands	25.9%	26.7%
92	Aruba	25.6%	25.2%
93	Australia	25.6%	23.9%
94	Russian Federation	25.6%	24.0%
95	Saint Martin (French part)	25.1%	32.4%
96	Monaco	25.0%	28.2%
97	Republic of Moldova	25.0%	21.8%
98	Saint Kitts and Nevis	24.9%	20.8%
99	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	24.8%	24.1%
100	Tunisia	24.7%	20.7%
101	Seychelles	24.6%	19.3%
102	Viet Nam	24.6%	20.3%
103	United States of America	24.5%	23.1%
104	Bahamas	24.5%	21.2%
105	United States Virgin Islands	24.5%	25.9%
106	Argentina	24.4%	20.1%
107	Bhutan	24.3%	16.3%
108	Brunei Darussalam	24.2%	19.6%
109	Cabo Verde	24.1%	16.8%
110	Cook Islands	23.9%	27.6%
111	New Caledonia	23.9%	21.7%
112	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	23.8%	21.5%
113	Georgia	23.7%	21.0%
114	Faroe Islands	23.3%	21.5%
115	Azerbaijan	23.1%	18.4%
116	Sri Lanka	23.0%	20.4%
117	Northern Mariana Islands	22.7%	26.6%
118	Dominica	22.5%	18.7%
119	Ecuador	22.1%	17.5%
120	Peru	22.1%	17.9%
121	Malaysia	22.0%	17.1%
122	Panama	21.8%	18.7%
123	Palau	21.6%	20.4%
124	Greenland	21.5%	17.8%
125	Holy See	21.2%	22.7%
126	Mexico	21.0%	17.1%
127	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	20.8%	19.2%
128	Morocco	20.1%	16.6%
129	El Salvador	20.0%	14.8%
130	Algeria	19.4%	16.4%
131	India	19.1%	14.9%
132	Guam	18.9%	18.3%
133	Belize	18.6%	13.1%
134	Dominican Republic	18.3%	15.1%
135	Western Sahara	18.3%	15.8%
136	Libya	18.1%	16.1%
137	Bangladesh	18.0%	13.8%
138	American Samoa	17.8%	18.8%
139	Lebanon	17.7%	16.4%
140	Indonesia	17.4%	15.3%
141	Nicaragua	17.3%	13.0%
142	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	17.3%	16.4%
143	Suriname	17.1%	15.1%
144	Israel	16.4%	15.7%
145	Paraguay	16.4%	12.6%
146	Myanmar	16.0%	13.7%
147	Kazakhstan	15.6%	13.9%
148	Tokelau	15.6%	12.4%
149	Jordan	15.3%	12.2%
150	Philippines	15.0%	11.3%
151	Mongolia	15.0%	12.7%
152	Cambodia	14.9%	11.8%
153	Nepal	14.8%	11.2%
154	Turkmenistan	14.5%	10.9%
155	Guatemala	14.0%	9.8%
156	Honduras	14.0%	10.3%
157	Lao People's Democratic Republic	13.9%	10.1%
158	South Africa	13.8%	11.4%
159	Guyana	13.6%	11.2%
160	Uzbekistan	12.9%	10.5%
161	Fiji	12.9%	10.7%
162	French Guiana	12.9%	12.3%
163	Kyrgyzstan	12.7%	10.2%
164	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	12.7%	9.9%
165	Egypt	12.2%	9.9%
166	Niue	12.0%	13.8%
167	Botswana	11.9%	7.8%
168	Syrian Arab Republic	11.8%	9.4%
169	Djibouti	11.7%	10.0%
170	State of Palestine	11.5%	8.1%
171	Haiti	11.0%	8.5%
172	Saudi Arabia	10.8%	8.4%
173	Tajikistan	10.6%	8.0%
174	Bahrain	10.3%	8.6%
175	Eswatini	10.2%	7.5%
176	Timor-Leste	10.1%	7.1%
177	Tonga	10.0%	10.7%
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	9.9%	7.8%
179	Iraq	9.6%	7.5%
180	Kiribati	9.5%	7.5%
181	Namibia	9.5%	7.0%
182	Oman	9.4%	6.7%
183	Papua New Guinea	9.1%	7.4%
184	Ghana	9.0%	7.5%
185	Vanuatu	9.0%	6.9%
186	Lesotho	9.0%	6.1%
187	Tuvalu	8.8%	8.6%
188	Gabon	8.6%	7.3%
189	Solomon Islands	8.6%	7.2%
190	Marshall Islands	8.4%	12.9%
191	Senegal	8.2%	6.0%
192	Rwanda	8.2%	6.3%
193	Pakistan	8.1%	6.5%
194	Mayotte	8.1%	6.9%
195	Samoa	7.9%	8.1%
196	Comoros	7.7%	6.6%
197	Sao Tome and Principe	7.7%	6.8%
198	Gambia	7.6%	5.5%
199	Kenya	7.5%	5.8%
200	Yemen	7.3%	5.3%
201	Eritrea	7.3%	5.9%
202	Guinea-Bissau	7.3%	5.8%
203	Nauru	7.3%	6.3%
204	Ethiopia	7.2%	5.4%
205	Sierra Leone	7.2%	5.6%
206	Equatorial Guinea	7.2%	6.3%
207	Sudan	7.1%	5.4%
208	Kuwait	7.0%	6.7%
209	Malawi	6.8%	5.0%
210	Uganda	6.7%	4.3%
211	Madagascar	6.6%	5.4%
212	Guinea	6.5%	4.7%
213	Zambia	6.3%	4.9%
214	Cameroon	6.1%	4.8%
215	Congo	6.1%	5.5%
216	Togo	6.1%	5.3%
217	Burkina Faso	6.1%	4.8%
218	Mauritania	6.0%	4.7%
219	Zimbabwe	5.9%	5.4%
220	Benin	5.9%	4.8%
221	Liberia	5.9%	5.0%
222	Burundi	5.7%	4.6%
223	United Republic of Tanzania	5.6%	4.5%
224	Afghanistan	5.5%	4.1%
225	South Sudan	5.5%	5.9%
226	Côte d'Ivoire	5.4%	4.8%
227	Nigeria	5.3%	4.6%
228	Angola	4.8%	4.1%
229	Mozambique	4.7%	3.6%
230	Somalia	4.4%	3.5%
231	Niger	4.4%	3.5%
232	Democratic Republic of the Congo	4.3%	3.6%
233	Mali	4.2%	3.5%
234	Chad	4.1%	3.3%
235	Qatar	3.7%	3.0%
236	United Arab Emirates	3.6%	2.0%
237	Central African Republic	2.8%	2.0%

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