Share aged 65+ by country, 2068

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

◀▶2068

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2058
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	57.3%	52.4%
2	China, Macao SAR	47.3%	42.5%
3	Puerto Rico	47.0%	39.5%
4	Republic of Korea	46.0%	42.1%
5	China, Taiwan Province of China	42.9%	41.1%
6	Andorra	42.7%	39.7%
7	Singapore	41.9%	32.6%
8	Albania	40.3%	33.1%
9	Malta	40.2%	36.8%
10	China	39.2%	36.3%
11	Maldives	38.0%	32.5%
12	Chile	36.9%	31.3%
13	Poland	36.8%	35.6%
14	Ukraine	36.5%	33.9%
15	Japan	36.5%	37.3%
16	Bermuda	36.4%	36.2%
17	Mauritius	36.0%	30.3%
18	Italy	35.8%	36.9%
19	Bosnia and Herzegovina	35.7%	35.0%
20	Lithuania	35.5%	32.1%
21	French Polynesia	35.3%	32.6%
22	Spain	35.0%	36.5%
23	Costa Rica	34.8%	29.7%
24	Cuba	34.3%	32.7%
25	British Virgin Islands	33.6%	32.2%
26	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	33.4%	37.4%
27	Thailand	33.1%	31.3%
28	Cyprus	33.0%	31.6%
29	Anguilla	32.9%	30.3%
30	Greece	32.7%	34.2%
31	Slovakia	32.7%	32.9%
32	Croatia	32.5%	31.5%
33	North Macedonia	32.3%	30.1%
34	Estonia	32.1%	32.9%
35	Austria	32.1%	32.2%
36	San Marino	32.1%	34.7%
37	Curaçao	32.0%	26.3%
38	Jamaica	31.8%	24.7%
39	Isle of Man	31.8%	31.8%
40	Guernsey	31.7%	31.7%
41	Serbia	31.6%	30.6%
42	Belarus	31.6%	31.4%
43	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	31.4%	35.9%
44	Iceland	31.3%	27.5%
45	Turks and Caicos Islands	31.2%	29.5%
46	Latvia	31.2%	31.8%
47	Antigua and Barbuda	31.1%	27.3%
48	Uruguay	30.9%	26.3%
49	Switzerland	30.9%	31.6%
50	Finland	30.7%	29.7%
51	Türkiye	30.6%	25.7%
52	Portugal	30.6%	32.1%
53	Slovenia	30.5%	32.3%
54	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	30.3%	25.5%
55	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	30.2%	28.3%
56	Grenada	30.2%	25.7%
57	Saint Helena	30.2%	32.0%
58	Norway	30.2%	28.8%
59	Luxembourg	30.0%	28.5%
60	Colombia	29.9%	24.4%
61	Saint Barthélemy	29.9%	27.4%
62	Bulgaria	29.9%	31.5%
63	Armenia	29.8%	28.8%
64	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	29.8%	27.3%
65	Saint Lucia	29.8%	24.3%
66	Germany	29.8%	30.7%
67	Montenegro	29.8%	28.3%
68	Netherlands	29.5%	27.3%
69	Trinidad and Tobago	29.1%	27.6%
70	Belgium	29.1%	28.7%
71	Brazil	28.9%	25.5%
72	Liechtenstein	28.9%	29.5%
73	Czechia	28.7%	30.8%
74	Romania	28.7%	29.4%
75	Sweden	28.6%	27.8%
76	Martinique	28.6%	33.1%
77	Canada	28.5%	26.8%
78	Jersey	28.3%	29.0%
79	Gibraltar	28.2%	25.7%
80	Denmark	28.1%	26.4%
81	Ireland	28.0%	27.1%
82	Cayman Islands	27.7%	27.7%
83	Barbados	27.7%	25.6%
84	Bhutan	27.7%	22.1%
85	Montserrat	27.7%	27.9%
86	Hungary	27.5%	28.2%
87	Guadeloupe	27.3%	30.7%
88	Argentina	27.2%	23.0%
89	Cabo Verde	27.2%	22.0%
90	New Zealand	27.2%	25.9%
91	Saint Kitts and Nevis	27.1%	24.0%
92	France	27.1%	27.4%
93	United Kingdom	26.9%	25.8%
94	Aruba	26.2%	25.5%
95	Australia	25.9%	25.2%
96	Seychelles	25.9%	23.1%
97	Tunisia	25.8%	23.7%
98	Bahamas	25.7%	23.4%
99	Brunei Darussalam	25.7%	23.0%
100	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	25.6%	22.9%
101	Wallis and Futuna Islands	25.5%	26.4%
102	Réunion	25.5%	26.8%
103	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	25.4%	24.7%
104	Ecuador	25.3%	20.7%
105	United States of America	25.2%	24.2%
106	Viet Nam	25.0%	23.8%
107	Sri Lanka	24.9%	22.1%
108	Malaysia	24.9%	20.7%
109	El Salvador	24.8%	17.9%
110	New Caledonia	24.8%	23.5%
111	Faroe Islands	24.6%	23.0%
112	Peru	24.6%	20.9%
113	Monaco	24.2%	25.8%
114	Georgia	24.0%	23.3%
115	Dominica	23.8%	21.3%
116	Panama	23.8%	20.9%
117	Russian Federation	23.8%	26.0%
118	Mexico	23.7%	19.8%
119	United States Virgin Islands	23.6%	25.0%
120	Azerbaijan	23.0%	22.0%
121	Republic of Moldova	23.0%	24.7%
122	Belize	22.8%	16.8%
123	India	22.2%	17.9%
124	Greenland	22.2%	20.3%
125	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	22.2%	20.0%
126	Holy See	22.2%	21.8%
127	Morocco	21.9%	19.2%
128	Bangladesh	21.3%	16.6%
129	Dominican Republic	20.4%	17.3%
130	Nicaragua	19.9%	16.0%
131	Palau	19.9%	21.5%
132	Lebanon	19.9%	17.2%
133	Guam	19.6%	18.5%
134	Tokelau	19.6%	14.1%
135	Suriname	19.5%	16.4%
136	Libya	19.5%	17.6%
137	Algeria	19.4%	18.8%
138	Northern Mariana Islands	19.3%	24.2%
139	Indonesia	18.9%	16.8%
140	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	18.5%	17.2%
141	Western Sahara	18.5%	18.0%
142	Paraguay	18.4%	15.3%
143	Nepal	18.2%	13.5%
144	Philippines	17.9%	13.8%
145	Myanmar	17.6%	15.3%
146	Israel	17.1%	16.3%
147	Guatemala	17.1%	12.6%
148	Saint Martin (French part)	17.1%	28.3%
149	Cook Islands	16.9%	25.9%
150	Jordan	16.7%	14.4%
151	Honduras	16.6%	12.8%
152	Lao People's Democratic Republic	16.4%	12.8%
153	Syrian Arab Republic	16.1%	10.8%
154	Guyana	16.0%	12.5%
155	Turkmenistan	15.9%	13.3%
156	Cambodia	15.8%	14.2%
157	American Samoa	15.6%	18.6%
158	Kazakhstan	15.1%	15.4%
159	Mongolia	14.7%	14.8%
160	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	14.5%	11.9%
161	South Africa	14.3%	13.2%
162	Botswana	14.1%	10.5%
163	Fiji	14.0%	12.3%
164	Egypt	13.6%	11.7%
165	Kyrgyzstan	13.6%	12.0%
166	State of Palestine	13.5%	10.5%
167	Timor-Leste	13.2%	9.1%
168	French Guiana	13.1%	13.0%
169	Uzbekistan	13.0%	12.3%
170	Djibouti	13.0%	11.2%
171	Haiti	12.5%	10.3%
172	Tajikistan	12.0%	10.0%
173	Niue	12.0%	12.3%
174	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	12.0%	8.9%
175	Eswatini	11.7%	9.5%
176	Saudi Arabia	11.4%	10.3%
177	Iraq	11.2%	8.9%
178	Bahrain	11.1%	9.9%
179	Namibia	10.9%	8.7%
180	Kiribati	10.3%	8.9%
181	Papua New Guinea	10.2%	8.6%
182	Lesotho	10.2%	8.3%
183	Oman	10.1%	8.7%
184	Ghana	10.1%	8.6%
185	Senegal	10.1%	7.4%
186	Solomon Islands	10.1%	8.2%
187	Tonga	9.8%	10.3%
188	Vanuatu	9.7%	8.4%
189	Eritrea	9.5%	6.7%
190	Rwanda	9.5%	7.7%
191	Pakistan	9.4%	7.6%
192	Gambia	9.2%	6.8%
193	Uganda	8.9%	5.9%
194	Kenya	8.9%	7.0%
195	Comoros	8.9%	7.5%
196	Sao Tome and Principe	8.9%	7.4%
197	Tuvalu	8.9%	8.7%
198	Ethiopia	8.8%	6.6%
199	Gabon	8.8%	8.3%
200	Sierra Leone	8.8%	6.7%
201	Guinea-Bissau	8.6%	6.8%
202	Sudan	8.6%	6.4%
203	Yemen	8.3%	6.7%
204	Malawi	8.3%	6.2%
205	Mayotte	8.1%	7.9%
206	Guinea	7.9%	5.9%
207	Madagascar	7.9%	6.2%
208	Samoa	7.7%	8.0%
209	Zambia	7.4%	5.9%
210	Burkina Faso	7.3%	5.7%
211	Equatorial Guinea	7.2%	7.2%
212	Kuwait	7.1%	6.8%
213	Mauritania	7.1%	5.5%
214	Liberia	7.1%	5.6%
215	Afghanistan	7.0%	5.0%
216	Cameroon	7.0%	5.7%
217	Zimbabwe	6.9%	5.9%
218	Togo	6.8%	5.9%
219	Nauru	6.8%	7.3%
220	Congo	6.7%	5.9%
221	Benin	6.7%	5.6%
222	South Sudan	6.7%	5.6%
223	United Republic of Tanzania	6.6%	5.2%
224	United Arab Emirates	6.2%	2.8%
225	Burundi	6.2%	5.5%
226	Nigeria	6.1%	5.0%
227	Mozambique	5.7%	4.4%
228	Côte d'Ivoire	5.6%	5.3%
229	Niger	5.4%	4.0%
230	Angola	5.3%	4.6%
231	Somalia	5.3%	4.0%
232	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5.0%	4.1%
233	Chad	4.9%	3.8%
234	Mali	4.9%	4.0%
235	Marshall Islands	4.3%	10.7%
236	Central African Republic	4.0%	2.4%
237	Qatar	3.4%	3.6%

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