Share aged 65+ by country, 2065

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

◀▶2065

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2055
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	56.6%	49.9%
2	China, Macao SAR	46.3%	39.5%
3	Republic of Korea	45.3%	40.9%
4	Puerto Rico	44.3%	38.2%
5	China, Taiwan Province of China	42.5%	40.1%
6	Andorra	42.0%	38.4%
7	Malta	40.1%	34.2%
8	Singapore	39.3%	29.9%
9	Albania	38.9%	30.5%
10	Maldives	38.4%	28.2%
11	China	38.4%	34.4%
12	Poland	37.0%	34.3%
13	Japan	36.7%	37.4%
14	Italy	36.1%	36.9%
15	Bermuda	36.1%	36.3%
16	Ukraine	36.0%	32.3%
17	Chile	35.6%	29.3%
18	Spain	35.4%	36.5%
19	Bosnia and Herzegovina	35.4%	34.7%
20	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	35.3%	36.4%
21	Lithuania	34.9%	30.4%
22	Mauritius	34.4%	28.3%
23	French Polynesia	34.2%	31.2%
24	Cuba	33.7%	31.7%
25	British Virgin Islands	33.6%	30.9%
26	Costa Rica	33.4%	28.0%
27	Slovakia	33.2%	31.9%
28	Cyprus	33.0%	29.9%
29	Greece	33.0%	34.5%
30	Thailand	32.7%	30.5%
31	San Marino	32.6%	35.6%
32	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	32.5%	35.6%
33	Estonia	32.4%	32.0%
34	Austria	32.4%	31.6%
35	Croatia	32.3%	31.3%
36	Guernsey	31.8%	31.2%
37	North Macedonia	31.8%	29.1%
38	Belarus	31.7%	30.1%
39	Isle of Man	31.7%	31.8%
40	Anguilla	31.6%	29.8%
41	Serbia	31.4%	30.0%
42	Switzerland	31.3%	31.1%
43	Latvia	31.3%	30.8%
44	Slovenia	31.2%	32.3%
45	Turks and Caicos Islands	31.0%	28.7%
46	Portugal	30.9%	32.5%
47	Curaçao	30.8%	24.8%
48	Iceland	30.6%	25.8%
49	Finland	30.5%	28.9%
50	Bulgaria	30.4%	30.9%
51	Jamaica	30.2%	22.3%
52	Germany	30.2%	30.6%
53	Saint Helena	30.1%	31.3%
54	Armenia	30.0%	26.9%
55	Antigua and Barbuda	30.0%	26.1%
56	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	30.0%	26.3%
57	Luxembourg	30.0%	27.5%
58	Norway	29.9%	27.9%
59	Uruguay	29.7%	25.0%
60	Czechia	29.5%	30.4%
61	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	29.4%	25.9%
62	Martinique	29.4%	34.1%
63	Türkiye	29.3%	24.2%
64	Montenegro	29.3%	27.7%
65	Grenada	29.2%	23.7%
66	Liechtenstein	29.1%	29.7%
67	Belgium	29.0%	28.3%
68	Trinidad and Tobago	28.9%	26.4%
69	Romania	28.9%	29.2%
70	Netherlands	28.7%	26.8%
71	Colombia	28.5%	22.7%
72	Saint Barthélemy	28.5%	26.8%
73	Jersey	28.5%	29.1%
74	Sweden	28.5%	26.8%
75	Saint Lucia	28.5%	22.5%
76	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	28.3%	24.1%
77	Montserrat	28.3%	27.6%
78	Canada	28.1%	26.3%
79	Cayman Islands	28.0%	26.9%
80	Brazil	28.0%	24.5%
81	Hungary	27.9%	27.8%
82	Guadeloupe	27.7%	31.6%
83	Denmark	27.7%	25.9%
84	Ireland	27.5%	26.9%
85	Gibraltar	27.4%	24.9%
86	France	27.0%	27.5%
87	New Zealand	26.9%	25.0%
88	Barbados	26.9%	25.0%
89	United Kingdom	26.7%	25.3%
90	Saint Kitts and Nevis	26.4%	22.8%
91	Bhutan	26.3%	19.6%
92	Argentina	26.0%	21.7%
93	Cabo Verde	26.0%	19.7%
94	Australia	25.9%	24.7%
95	Seychelles	25.7%	21.5%
96	Aruba	25.6%	25.4%
97	Réunion	25.5%	26.9%
98	Tunisia	25.4%	22.5%
99	Bahamas	25.3%	22.4%
100	Brunei Darussalam	25.2%	21.7%
101	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	24.9%	24.5%
102	Viet Nam	24.9%	22.3%
103	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	24.9%	22.1%
104	United States of America	24.8%	23.7%
105	Wallis and Futuna Islands	24.6%	26.6%
106	Russian Federation	24.5%	25.6%
107	Monaco	24.4%	26.8%
108	New Caledonia	24.2%	22.8%
109	Ecuador	24.0%	19.3%
110	Georgia	24.0%	22.3%
111	Sri Lanka	24.0%	21.4%
112	Republic of Moldova	23.9%	23.9%
113	Malaysia	23.7%	19.2%
114	United States Virgin Islands	23.7%	25.3%
115	Faroe Islands	23.6%	22.3%
116	Peru	23.6%	19.6%
117	Dominica	23.3%	19.9%
118	Azerbaijan	23.2%	20.5%
119	El Salvador	23.0%	16.3%
120	Panama	22.9%	19.9%
121	Mexico	22.5%	18.6%
122	Greenland	22.3%	19.1%
123	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	21.6%	19.5%
124	Holy See	21.4%	21.9%
125	Morocco	21.2%	18.1%
126	Belize	21.0%	15.1%
127	India	20.9%	16.6%
128	Palau	20.5%	20.9%
129	Saint Martin (French part)	20.2%	30.4%
130	Northern Mariana Islands	20.1%	25.3%
131	Bangladesh	19.9%	15.4%
132	Cook Islands	19.7%	27.1%
133	Algeria	19.5%	18.0%
134	Dominican Republic	19.5%	16.3%
135	Guam	19.4%	18.3%
136	Nicaragua	18.9%	14.7%
137	Libya	18.8%	17.1%
138	Lebanon	18.8%	16.9%
139	Western Sahara	18.5%	17.3%
140	Suriname	18.4%	15.9%
141	Indonesia	18.3%	16.2%
142	Tokelau	18.0%	13.1%
143	Paraguay	17.7%	14.1%
144	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	17.7%	17.0%
145	Myanmar	16.9%	14.6%
146	Israel	16.7%	16.0%
147	Nepal	16.7%	12.4%
148	Philippines	16.7%	12.6%
149	Jordan	16.1%	13.5%
150	Guatemala	15.8%	11.3%
151	American Samoa	15.8%	18.7%
152	Turkmenistan	15.7%	12.2%
153	Honduras	15.5%	11.7%
154	Kazakhstan	15.4%	14.9%
155	Cambodia	15.4%	13.2%
156	Lao People's Democratic Republic	15.4%	11.6%
157	Guyana	15.2%	11.7%
158	Mongolia	15.0%	14.1%
159	South Africa	14.2%	12.5%
160	Syrian Arab Republic	14.1%	10.2%
161	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	13.8%	11.0%
162	Fiji	13.6%	11.6%
163	Kyrgyzstan	13.3%	11.2%
164	Botswana	13.3%	9.2%
165	Uzbekistan	13.1%	11.5%
166	Egypt	13.0%	11.0%
167	French Guiana	12.9%	12.8%
168	State of Palestine	12.7%	9.4%
169	Djibouti	12.3%	10.7%
170	Niue	12.1%	12.9%
171	Haiti	11.9%	9.5%
172	Timor-Leste	11.8%	8.2%
173	Tajikistan	11.5%	9.1%
174	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	11.2%	8.1%
175	Eswatini	11.1%	8.7%
176	Saudi Arabia	11.0%	9.6%
177	Bahrain	10.8%	9.3%
178	Iraq	10.5%	8.2%
179	Namibia	10.4%	7.9%
180	Kiribati	10.1%	8.3%
181	Oman	9.9%	7.9%
182	Papua New Guinea	9.7%	8.1%
183	Lesotho	9.7%	7.4%
184	Ghana	9.6%	8.2%
185	Solomon Islands	9.4%	7.8%
186	Tonga	9.4%	10.6%
187	Vanuatu	9.4%	7.7%
188	Senegal	9.3%	6.8%
189	Tuvalu	9.0%	8.5%
190	Pakistan	8.8%	7.1%
191	Rwanda	8.8%	7.1%
192	Gabon	8.7%	8.0%
193	Eritrea	8.5%	6.3%
194	Gambia	8.5%	6.2%
195	Kenya	8.3%	6.5%
196	Comoros	8.3%	7.2%
197	Sao Tome and Principe	8.2%	7.1%
198	Mayotte	8.2%	7.5%
199	Ethiopia	8.1%	6.0%
200	Sierra Leone	8.1%	6.2%
201	Uganda	8.0%	5.1%
202	Guinea-Bissau	8.0%	6.4%
203	Sudan	8.0%	5.9%
204	Yemen	7.9%	6.1%
205	Samoa	7.7%	8.0%
206	Malawi	7.6%	5.7%
207	Guinea	7.3%	5.3%
208	Madagascar	7.3%	5.8%
209	Equatorial Guinea	7.2%	6.9%
210	Nauru	7.1%	7.0%
211	Kuwait	7.0%	6.7%
212	Zambia	6.9%	5.5%
213	Burkina Faso	6.8%	5.3%
214	Cameroon	6.6%	5.3%
215	Mauritania	6.6%	5.2%
216	Togo	6.5%	5.6%
217	Liberia	6.5%	5.4%
218	Afghanistan	6.4%	4.5%
219	Congo	6.4%	5.8%
220	Benin	6.4%	5.2%
221	Zimbabwe	6.3%	5.8%
222	United Republic of Tanzania	6.2%	4.9%
223	Burundi	5.9%	5.2%
224	South Sudan	5.9%	5.7%
225	Marshall Islands	5.7%	12.6%
226	Nigeria	5.6%	4.8%
227	Côte d'Ivoire	5.4%	5.2%
228	Mozambique	5.3%	4.0%
229	Angola	5.1%	4.4%
230	United Arab Emirates	5.0%	2.3%
231	Somalia	4.9%	3.8%
232	Niger	4.9%	3.8%
233	Democratic Republic of the Congo	4.7%	3.8%
234	Chad	4.6%	3.5%
235	Mali	4.5%	3.8%
236	Qatar	3.6%	3.5%
237	Central African Republic	3.4%	2.2%

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