Share aged 65+ by country, 2066

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

◀▶2066

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2056
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	56.9%	50.7%
2	China, Macao SAR	46.6%	40.6%
3	Republic of Korea	45.7%	41.2%
4	Puerto Rico	45.2%	38.6%
5	China, Taiwan Province of China	42.7%	40.4%
6	Andorra	42.3%	38.9%
7	Malta	40.3%	35.1%
8	Singapore	40.2%	30.8%
9	Albania	39.5%	31.4%
10	China	38.7%	35.3%
11	Maldives	38.4%	29.7%
12	Poland	37.0%	34.8%
13	Japan	36.6%	37.4%
14	Ukraine	36.2%	32.9%
15	Bermuda	36.2%	36.3%
16	Italy	36.0%	36.9%
17	Chile	36.0%	30.0%
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	35.5%	34.8%
19	Spain	35.3%	36.5%
20	Lithuania	35.1%	31.0%
21	Mauritius	34.9%	28.9%
22	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	34.7%	36.8%
23	French Polynesia	34.6%	31.7%
24	Cuba	33.9%	32.1%
25	Costa Rica	33.9%	28.6%
26	British Virgin Islands	33.7%	31.4%
27	Cyprus	33.1%	30.5%
28	Slovakia	33.1%	32.2%
29	Greece	32.9%	34.4%
30	Thailand	32.8%	30.8%
31	Croatia	32.4%	31.4%
32	Estonia	32.3%	32.4%
33	Austria	32.3%	31.8%
34	San Marino	32.3%	35.4%
35	Anguilla	32.0%	30.0%
36	North Macedonia	32.0%	29.5%
37	Guernsey	31.8%	31.4%
38	Belarus	31.7%	30.6%
39	Isle of Man	31.7%	31.8%
40	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	31.6%	35.7%
41	Serbia	31.4%	30.2%
42	Curaçao	31.3%	25.2%
43	Latvia	31.3%	31.2%
44	Switzerland	31.2%	31.3%
45	Turks and Caicos Islands	31.1%	29.0%
46	Slovenia	31.0%	32.3%
47	Iceland	30.9%	26.4%
48	Jamaica	30.8%	23.0%
49	Portugal	30.8%	32.4%
50	Finland	30.6%	29.2%
51	Saint Helena	30.5%	31.2%
52	Antigua and Barbuda	30.4%	26.6%
53	Bulgaria	30.2%	31.2%
54	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	30.1%	27.1%
55	Uruguay	30.1%	25.5%
56	Germany	30.1%	30.7%
57	Armenia	30.0%	27.6%
58	Norway	30.0%	28.2%
59	Luxembourg	30.0%	27.9%
60	Türkiye	29.8%	24.7%
61	Grenada	29.7%	24.4%
62	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	29.6%	26.4%
63	Montenegro	29.4%	27.9%
64	Czechia	29.2%	30.5%
65	Martinique	29.2%	33.9%
66	Netherlands	29.0%	27.0%
67	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	29.0%	24.6%
68	Colombia	29.0%	23.2%
69	Saint Lucia	29.0%	23.1%
70	Trinidad and Tobago	29.0%	26.9%
71	Belgium	29.0%	28.4%
72	Liechtenstein	29.0%	29.7%
73	Saint Barthélemy	28.9%	27.0%
74	Romania	28.9%	29.4%
75	Sweden	28.5%	27.2%
76	Jersey	28.4%	29.1%
77	Canada	28.3%	26.5%
78	Brazil	28.3%	24.8%
79	Cayman Islands	27.9%	27.2%
80	Montserrat	27.9%	27.7%
81	Denmark	27.8%	26.1%
82	Gibraltar	27.7%	25.1%
83	Hungary	27.7%	27.9%
84	Ireland	27.6%	27.0%
85	Guadeloupe	27.5%	31.4%
86	Barbados	27.2%	25.2%
87	New Zealand	27.0%	25.3%
88	France	27.0%	27.5%
89	United Kingdom	26.8%	25.4%
90	Bhutan	26.8%	20.5%
91	Saint Kitts and Nevis	26.7%	23.2%
92	Argentina	26.4%	22.1%
93	Cabo Verde	26.4%	20.5%
94	Australia	25.9%	24.9%
95	Seychelles	25.8%	22.0%
96	Aruba	25.7%	25.4%
97	Tunisia	25.6%	22.9%
98	Bahamas	25.5%	22.7%
99	Brunei Darussalam	25.4%	22.1%
100	Réunion	25.4%	26.9%
101	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	25.2%	22.4%
102	United States of America	25.0%	23.9%
103	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	25.0%	24.6%
104	Viet Nam	24.9%	22.9%
105	Wallis and Futuna Islands	24.8%	26.6%
106	Ecuador	24.4%	19.7%
107	New Caledonia	24.4%	23.1%
108	Monaco	24.4%	26.5%
109	Sri Lanka	24.3%	21.6%
110	Russian Federation	24.2%	25.9%
111	Malaysia	24.1%	19.7%
112	Georgia	24.0%	22.7%
113	Faroe Islands	24.0%	22.6%
114	Peru	24.0%	20.1%
115	El Salvador	23.6%	16.8%
116	Republic of Moldova	23.6%	24.2%
117	United States Virgin Islands	23.6%	25.2%
118	Dominica	23.5%	20.4%
119	Azerbaijan	23.2%	21.1%
120	Panama	23.2%	20.3%
121	Mexico	22.9%	19.0%
122	Greenland	22.3%	19.5%
123	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	21.8%	19.6%
124	Holy See	21.7%	21.6%
125	Belize	21.6%	15.6%
126	Morocco	21.4%	18.5%
127	India	21.3%	17.0%
128	Bangladesh	20.4%	15.8%
129	Palau	20.2%	21.1%
130	Dominican Republic	19.8%	16.6%
131	Northern Mariana Islands	19.7%	25.0%
132	Algeria	19.5%	18.3%
133	Guam	19.4%	18.4%
134	Nicaragua	19.3%	15.1%
135	Saint Martin (French part)	19.1%	29.8%
136	Lebanon	19.1%	17.0%
137	Libya	19.0%	17.3%
138	Suriname	18.8%	16.0%
139	Cook Islands	18.6%	26.7%
140	Indonesia	18.5%	16.4%
141	Tokelau	18.5%	13.5%
142	Western Sahara	18.5%	17.6%
143	Paraguay	17.9%	14.5%
144	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	17.9%	17.1%
145	Nepal	17.2%	12.8%
146	Philippines	17.1%	13.0%
147	Myanmar	17.1%	14.8%
148	Israel	16.8%	16.1%
149	Jordan	16.3%	13.8%
150	Guatemala	16.2%	11.7%
151	Honduras	15.9%	12.1%
152	Turkmenistan	15.8%	12.5%
153	Lao People's Democratic Republic	15.8%	12.0%
154	Cambodia	15.6%	13.5%
155	American Samoa	15.6%	18.7%
156	Guyana	15.5%	11.9%
157	Kazakhstan	15.3%	15.1%
158	Mongolia	14.9%	14.4%
159	Syrian Arab Republic	14.7%	10.4%
160	South Africa	14.3%	12.7%
161	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	14.0%	11.3%
162	Fiji	13.7%	11.9%
163	Botswana	13.6%	9.5%
164	Kyrgyzstan	13.4%	11.5%
165	Egypt	13.2%	11.2%
166	Uzbekistan	13.1%	11.8%
167	State of Palestine	13.0%	9.8%
168	French Guiana	13.0%	12.9%
169	Djibouti	12.5%	10.8%
170	Timor-Leste	12.2%	8.5%
171	Haiti	12.1%	9.8%
172	Niue	11.8%	12.6%
173	Tajikistan	11.7%	9.4%
174	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	11.5%	8.3%
175	Eswatini	11.3%	8.9%
176	Saudi Arabia	11.1%	9.8%
177	Bahrain	10.9%	9.5%
178	Iraq	10.8%	8.4%
179	Namibia	10.6%	8.1%
180	Kiribati	10.2%	8.5%
181	Oman	10.0%	8.2%
182	Papua New Guinea	9.9%	8.3%
183	Lesotho	9.8%	7.8%
184	Ghana	9.7%	8.3%
185	Solomon Islands	9.6%	8.0%
186	Senegal	9.5%	7.0%
187	Tonga	9.5%	10.5%
188	Vanuatu	9.5%	7.9%
189	Tuvalu	9.0%	8.5%
190	Pakistan	9.0%	7.3%
191	Rwanda	9.0%	7.3%
192	Eritrea	8.8%	6.4%
193	Gabon	8.7%	8.1%
194	Gambia	8.7%	6.4%
195	Kenya	8.5%	6.7%
196	Comoros	8.5%	7.3%
197	Sao Tome and Principe	8.4%	7.2%
198	Uganda	8.3%	5.4%
199	Ethiopia	8.3%	6.2%
200	Sierra Leone	8.3%	6.3%
201	Guinea-Bissau	8.2%	6.5%
202	Sudan	8.2%	6.1%
203	Mayotte	8.2%	7.7%
204	Yemen	8.0%	6.3%
205	Samoa	7.8%	8.0%
206	Malawi	7.8%	5.9%
207	Guinea	7.5%	5.5%
208	Madagascar	7.5%	5.9%
209	Equatorial Guinea	7.2%	7.0%
210	Zambia	7.1%	5.6%
211	Kuwait	7.0%	6.7%
212	Nauru	7.0%	7.2%
213	Burkina Faso	6.9%	5.4%
214	Cameroon	6.7%	5.5%
215	Mauritania	6.7%	5.3%
216	Liberia	6.7%	5.5%
217	Afghanistan	6.6%	4.7%
218	Togo	6.6%	5.7%
219	Congo	6.5%	5.8%
220	Zimbabwe	6.5%	5.8%
221	Benin	6.5%	5.3%
222	United Republic of Tanzania	6.3%	5.0%
223	South Sudan	6.1%	5.6%
224	Burundi	6.0%	5.3%
225	Nigeria	5.8%	4.9%
226	Côte d'Ivoire	5.5%	5.2%
227	United Arab Emirates	5.4%	2.5%
228	Mozambique	5.4%	4.1%
229	Angola	5.1%	4.4%
230	Somalia	5.1%	3.9%
231	Niger	5.1%	3.9%
232	Marshall Islands	5.1%	12.2%
233	Democratic Republic of the Congo	4.8%	3.9%
234	Chad	4.7%	3.6%
235	Mali	4.6%	3.9%
236	Central African Republic	3.6%	2.3%
237	Qatar	3.5%	3.5%

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