Share aged 65+ by country, 2070

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

◀▶2070

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2060
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	57.4%	54.0%
2	Puerto Rico	48.5%	40.6%
3	China, Macao SAR	47.1%	44.2%
4	Republic of Korea	46.2%	43.2%
5	Andorra	43.1%	40.3%
6	Singapore	43.1%	34.5%
7	China, Taiwan Province of China	42.8%	41.7%
8	Albania	40.9%	35.0%
9	Malta	40.2%	38.3%
10	China	39.6%	37.0%
11	Chile	37.5%	32.7%
12	Maldives	37.4%	35.1%
13	Ukraine	37.0%	34.7%
14	Mauritius	37.0%	31.6%
15	Bermuda	36.5%	36.0%
16	Poland	36.5%	36.3%
17	Japan	36.4%	37.2%
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.0%	34.7%
19	French Polynesia	36.0%	33.2%
20	Italy	35.9%	36.7%
21	Lithuania	35.7%	33.0%
22	Costa Rica	35.5%	30.8%
23	Spain	34.9%	36.3%
24	Cuba	34.6%	32.9%
25	Anguilla	34.0%	30.5%
26	British Virgin Islands	33.7%	32.8%
27	Thailand	33.4%	31.7%
28	Cyprus	32.9%	32.3%
29	Jamaica	32.8%	26.5%
30	Greece	32.7%	33.9%
31	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	32.7%	35.7%
32	Croatia	32.6%	31.6%
33	Curaçao	32.5%	27.8%
34	North Macedonia	32.5%	30.7%
35	Slovakia	32.4%	33.3%
36	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	32.2%	37.3%
37	Isle of Man	32.1%	31.7%
38	Austria	32.0%	32.4%
39	San Marino	32.0%	34.0%
40	Estonia	31.9%	33.0%
41	Iceland	31.8%	28.7%
42	Serbia	31.8%	30.9%
43	Uruguay	31.7%	27.3%
44	Guernsey	31.7%	31.7%
45	Antigua and Barbuda	31.5%	28.1%
46	Saint Barthélemy	31.4%	27.5%
47	Belarus	31.4%	31.8%
48	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	31.3%	26.4%
49	Latvia	31.3%	31.9%
50	Türkiye	31.2%	26.6%
51	Turks and Caicos Islands	31.1%	30.0%
52	Finland	31.0%	30.1%
53	Grenada	30.8%	26.8%
54	Colombia	30.8%	25.6%
55	Switzerland	30.7%	31.7%
56	Saint Lucia	30.4%	25.6%
57	Norway	30.4%	29.2%
58	Portugal	30.4%	31.7%
59	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	30.3%	29.1%
60	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	30.1%	28.1%
61	Slovenia	30.1%	32.1%
62	Luxembourg	30.1%	29.1%
63	Saint Helena	30.0%	31.3%
64	Montenegro	30.0%	28.6%
65	Netherlands	29.9%	27.7%
66	Germany	29.7%	30.6%
67	Armenia	29.6%	29.5%
68	Bulgaria	29.6%	31.4%
69	Brazil	29.3%	26.2%
70	Trinidad and Tobago	29.2%	28.1%
71	Belgium	29.2%	28.9%
72	Liechtenstein	28.9%	29.4%
73	Sweden	28.8%	28.3%
74	Canada	28.7%	27.2%
75	Gibraltar	28.7%	26.2%
76	Bhutan	28.7%	23.6%
77	Martinique	28.7%	32.1%
78	Romania	28.7%	29.3%
79	Denmark	28.4%	26.8%
80	Ireland	28.3%	27.2%
81	Jersey	28.3%	28.9%
82	Czechia	28.3%	30.8%
83	Cabo Verde	28.2%	23.4%
84	Barbados	28.2%	25.9%
85	Argentina	27.9%	24.0%
86	Cayman Islands	27.6%	28.1%
87	Montserrat	27.6%	28.3%
88	Guadeloupe	27.5%	29.9%
89	New Zealand	27.4%	26.3%
90	France	27.4%	27.2%
91	Saint Kitts and Nevis	27.3%	24.6%
92	Hungary	27.3%	28.3%
93	United Kingdom	27.1%	26.1%
94	Wallis and Futuna Islands	27.0%	26.1%
95	Aruba	26.9%	25.6%
96	Ecuador	26.1%	21.7%
97	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	26.1%	24.7%
98	Tunisia	26.0%	24.4%
99	Bahamas	26.0%	24.2%
100	Australia	25.9%	25.5%
101	Seychelles	25.9%	24.1%
102	Brunei Darussalam	25.9%	23.8%
103	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	25.9%	23.5%
104	Réunion	25.8%	26.5%
105	El Salvador	25.7%	19.3%
106	Malaysia	25.7%	21.6%
107	United States of America	25.5%	24.4%
108	Sri Lanka	25.5%	22.7%
109	Faroe Islands	25.3%	23.2%
110	Peru	25.3%	21.7%
111	New Caledonia	25.2%	23.8%
112	Viet Nam	25.1%	24.4%
113	Mexico	24.4%	20.6%
114	Panama	24.3%	21.5%
115	Monaco	24.2%	25.3%
116	Georgia	24.0%	23.6%
117	Dominica	24.0%	22.2%
118	Belize	23.8%	18.0%
119	United States Virgin Islands	23.8%	24.7%
120	Russian Federation	23.6%	25.8%
121	Azerbaijan	23.0%	22.8%
122	India	23.0%	18.7%
123	Republic of Moldova	22.7%	25.0%
124	Holy See	22.5%	21.6%
125	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	22.4%	20.6%
126	Morocco	22.4%	19.9%
127	Bangladesh	22.3%	17.5%
128	Greenland	22.0%	21.2%
129	Dominican Republic	20.9%	18.0%
130	Lebanon	20.7%	17.5%
131	Nicaragua	20.6%	16.9%
132	Tokelau	20.4%	15.2%
133	Suriname	20.1%	16.8%
134	Libya	20.1%	18.0%
135	Palau	20.0%	21.6%
136	Guam	19.8%	18.8%
137	Algeria	19.5%	19.2%
138	Northern Mariana Islands	19.5%	23.3%
139	Indonesia	19.3%	17.2%
140	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	19.3%	17.3%
141	Nepal	19.2%	14.3%
142	Paraguay	18.7%	16.0%
143	Philippines	18.7%	14.6%
144	Western Sahara	18.6%	18.3%
145	Guatemala	18.0%	13.5%
146	Myanmar	18.0%	15.8%
147	Israel	17.4%	16.4%
148	Syrian Arab Republic	17.3%	11.4%
149	Honduras	17.3%	13.6%
150	Jordan	17.2%	15.0%
151	Lao People's Democratic Republic	17.0%	13.5%
152	Guyana	16.4%	13.2%
153	Cook Islands	16.2%	24.6%
154	American Samoa	16.2%	18.2%
155	Cambodia	16.1%	14.7%
156	Saint Martin (French part)	16.1%	26.3%
157	Turkmenistan	15.8%	14.1%
158	Kazakhstan	15.0%	15.6%
159	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	15.0%	12.4%
160	Botswana	14.6%	11.4%
161	Mongolia	14.6%	15.0%
162	Fiji	14.4%	12.7%
163	South Africa	14.4%	13.6%
164	Timor-Leste	14.3%	9.8%
165	Egypt	14.0%	12.0%
166	State of Palestine	14.0%	11.2%
167	Kyrgyzstan	13.8%	12.5%
168	Djibouti	13.6%	11.5%
169	French Guiana	13.5%	12.9%
170	Uzbekistan	12.9%	12.7%
171	Haiti	12.9%	10.8%
172	Niue	12.6%	11.8%
173	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	12.5%	9.5%
174	Eswatini	12.1%	9.9%
175	Tajikistan	12.1%	10.4%
176	Iraq	11.7%	9.3%
177	Saudi Arabia	11.7%	10.7%
178	Bahrain	11.4%	10.2%
179	Namibia	11.2%	9.2%
180	Senegal	10.6%	7.9%
181	Solomon Islands	10.6%	8.4%
182	Lesotho	10.6%	8.8%
183	Papua New Guinea	10.5%	9.0%
184	Ghana	10.4%	8.9%
185	Tonga	10.4%	10.0%
186	Eritrea	10.3%	7.1%
187	Oman	10.3%	9.2%
188	Kiribati	10.2%	9.3%
189	Rwanda	10.1%	8.0%
190	Vanuatu	10.0%	8.8%
191	Gambia	9.7%	7.3%
192	Pakistan	9.7%	7.9%
193	Uganda	9.6%	6.4%
194	Sao Tome and Principe	9.5%	7.6%
195	Ethiopia	9.4%	7.0%
196	Kenya	9.4%	7.3%
197	Comoros	9.2%	7.6%
198	Sierra Leone	9.2%	7.0%
199	Gabon	9.0%	8.5%
200	Guinea-Bissau	9.0%	7.2%
201	Sudan	9.0%	6.8%
202	Tuvalu	8.9%	8.8%
203	Malawi	8.8%	6.6%
204	Yemen	8.6%	7.1%
205	Guinea	8.2%	6.3%
206	Madagascar	8.2%	6.4%
207	Mayotte	8.2%	8.1%
208	Samoa	7.8%	7.9%
209	Zambia	7.7%	6.1%
210	Burkina Faso	7.7%	6.0%
211	Afghanistan	7.5%	5.4%
212	Kuwait	7.5%	7.0%
213	Liberia	7.5%	5.8%
214	Zimbabwe	7.4%	5.9%
215	Mauritania	7.4%	5.8%
216	South Sudan	7.4%	5.5%
217	Cameroon	7.3%	6.0%
218	Equatorial Guinea	7.3%	7.2%
219	Congo	7.0%	6.0%
220	Togo	7.0%	6.0%
221	Benin	7.0%	5.8%
222	United Arab Emirates	6.9%	3.3%
223	United Republic of Tanzania	6.9%	5.5%
224	Nauru	6.8%	7.3%
225	Burundi	6.5%	5.6%
226	Nigeria	6.4%	5.2%
227	Mozambique	6.0%	4.6%
228	Côte d'Ivoire	5.8%	5.4%
229	Niger	5.8%	4.2%
230	Angola	5.6%	4.7%
231	Somalia	5.6%	4.2%
232	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5.2%	4.2%
233	Chad	5.2%	4.0%
234	Mali	5.2%	4.1%
235	Marshall Islands	4.5%	9.1%
236	Central African Republic	4.4%	2.6%
237	Qatar	3.6%	3.7%

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