Share aged 65+ by country, 2071

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

◀▶2071

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2061
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	57.5%	54.8%
2	Puerto Rico	49.3%	41.2%
3	China, Macao SAR	47.1%	44.6%
4	Republic of Korea	46.2%	43.6%
5	Singapore	43.5%	35.5%
6	Andorra	43.3%	40.6%
7	China, Taiwan Province of China	42.8%	42.0%
8	Albania	41.1%	35.9%
9	Malta	40.2%	38.9%
10	China	39.9%	37.4%
11	Chile	37.8%	33.3%
12	Mauritius	37.5%	32.3%
13	Ukraine	37.2%	35.0%
14	Maldives	37.1%	36.2%
15	Bermuda	36.5%	36.0%
16	Poland	36.5%	36.5%
17	Japan	36.4%	37.1%
18	French Polynesia	36.4%	33.4%
19	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.1%	34.6%
20	Italy	35.9%	36.6%
21	Costa Rica	35.9%	31.4%
22	Lithuania	35.8%	33.4%
23	Spain	34.9%	36.1%
24	Cuba	34.7%	33.0%
25	Anguilla	34.6%	30.6%
26	British Virgin Islands	33.9%	33.1%
27	Thailand	33.6%	31.9%
28	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	33.4%	35.1%
29	Jamaica	33.3%	27.3%
30	Cyprus	32.9%	32.6%
31	Curaçao	32.8%	28.5%
32	Greece	32.8%	33.7%
33	Croatia	32.8%	31.7%
34	North Macedonia	32.6%	31.0%
35	Saint Barthélemy	32.3%	27.7%
36	Slovakia	32.3%	33.3%
37	Isle of Man	32.3%	31.7%
38	Uruguay	32.1%	27.8%
39	Iceland	32.0%	29.1%
40	Estonia	32.0%	32.9%
41	Austria	32.0%	32.5%
42	San Marino	31.9%	33.6%
43	Guernsey	31.8%	31.7%
44	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	31.8%	26.8%
45	Serbia	31.8%	31.1%
46	Antigua and Barbuda	31.7%	28.5%
47	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	31.7%	37.0%
48	Türkiye	31.4%	27.1%
49	Belarus	31.4%	31.9%
50	Latvia	31.4%	31.8%
51	Colombia	31.2%	26.2%
52	Finland	31.2%	30.2%
53	Grenada	31.1%	27.3%
54	Turks and Caicos Islands	31.1%	30.2%
55	Switzerland	30.6%	31.6%
56	Saint Lucia	30.6%	26.3%
57	Norway	30.6%	29.4%
58	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	30.4%	29.4%
59	Saint Helena	30.4%	31.3%
60	Portugal	30.4%	31.5%
61	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	30.2%	28.4%
62	Netherlands	30.1%	27.9%
63	Luxembourg	30.1%	29.4%
64	Montenegro	30.0%	28.8%
65	Slovenia	29.9%	31.9%
66	Germany	29.6%	30.5%
67	Armenia	29.5%	29.8%
68	Brazil	29.5%	26.6%
69	Bulgaria	29.4%	31.2%
70	Belgium	29.4%	28.9%
71	Trinidad and Tobago	29.3%	28.3%
72	Bhutan	29.1%	24.3%
73	Gibraltar	29.0%	26.4%
74	Sweden	29.0%	28.4%
75	Liechtenstein	28.9%	29.4%
76	Canada	28.8%	27.4%
77	Martinique	28.8%	31.5%
78	Romania	28.8%	29.2%
79	Cabo Verde	28.7%	24.1%
80	Ireland	28.5%	27.2%
81	Denmark	28.5%	27.0%
82	Argentina	28.3%	24.4%
83	Jersey	28.3%	28.7%
84	Czechia	28.3%	30.6%
85	Barbados	28.3%	26.0%
86	Montserrat	28.0%	28.5%
87	Wallis and Futuna Islands	27.8%	25.9%
88	Guadeloupe	27.8%	29.4%
89	Cayman Islands	27.6%	28.1%
90	New Zealand	27.6%	26.4%
91	France	27.6%	27.1%
92	Saint Kitts and Nevis	27.4%	24.9%
93	Aruba	27.3%	25.6%
94	United Kingdom	27.3%	26.3%
95	Hungary	27.2%	28.3%
96	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	26.5%	24.8%
97	Ecuador	26.4%	22.1%
98	Tunisia	26.2%	24.7%
99	Bahamas	26.2%	24.5%
100	El Salvador	26.1%	20.0%
101	Réunion	26.1%	26.3%
102	Australia	26.0%	25.6%
103	Brunei Darussalam	26.0%	24.2%
104	Malaysia	26.0%	22.0%
105	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	26.0%	23.8%
106	Sri Lanka	25.8%	23.0%
107	Seychelles	25.8%	24.6%
108	United States of America	25.7%	24.5%
109	Peru	25.7%	22.1%
110	Faroe Islands	25.6%	23.3%
111	New Caledonia	25.4%	23.9%
112	Viet Nam	25.2%	24.6%
113	Mexico	24.8%	21.0%
114	Panama	24.6%	21.8%
115	Belize	24.2%	18.6%
116	Georgia	24.1%	23.7%
117	Dominica	24.1%	22.5%
118	Monaco	24.1%	25.0%
119	United States Virgin Islands	24.0%	24.5%
120	Russian Federation	23.5%	25.6%
121	India	23.4%	19.1%
122	Azerbaijan	23.1%	23.1%
123	Bangladesh	22.8%	18.0%
124	Morocco	22.7%	20.1%
125	Holy See	22.6%	21.2%
126	Republic of Moldova	22.6%	25.0%
127	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	22.5%	20.8%
128	Greenland	21.9%	21.5%
129	Dominican Republic	21.1%	18.3%
130	Lebanon	21.1%	17.7%
131	Nicaragua	21.0%	17.3%
132	Tokelau	20.8%	15.6%
133	Libya	20.4%	18.1%
134	Suriname	20.3%	17.1%
135	Palau	20.1%	21.6%
136	Guam	19.9%	18.9%
137	Northern Mariana Islands	19.8%	22.7%
138	Nepal	19.7%	14.8%
139	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	19.7%	17.3%
140	Algeria	19.5%	19.4%
141	Indonesia	19.5%	17.4%
142	Philippines	19.1%	15.0%
143	Paraguay	18.9%	16.4%
144	Western Sahara	18.6%	18.3%
145	Guatemala	18.4%	14.0%
146	Myanmar	18.2%	16.0%
147	Syrian Arab Republic	17.8%	11.8%
148	Honduras	17.7%	14.0%
149	Israel	17.5%	16.4%
150	Jordan	17.5%	15.3%
151	Lao People's Democratic Republic	17.2%	13.9%
152	American Samoa	16.7%	17.8%
153	Guyana	16.5%	13.6%
154	Cambodia	16.3%	14.9%
155	Cook Islands	16.2%	23.9%
156	Saint Martin (French part)	16.0%	25.1%
157	Turkmenistan	15.7%	14.5%
158	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	15.2%	12.7%
159	Kazakhstan	15.0%	15.6%
160	Botswana	14.8%	11.9%
161	Timor-Leste	14.8%	10.1%
162	Fiji	14.6%	12.9%
163	Mongolia	14.6%	15.0%
164	South Africa	14.5%	13.8%
165	Egypt	14.3%	12.2%
166	State of Palestine	14.3%	11.5%
167	Kyrgyzstan	13.9%	12.7%
168	Djibouti	13.9%	11.7%
169	French Guiana	13.7%	12.9%
170	Haiti	13.1%	11.0%
171	Uzbekistan	12.9%	12.9%
172	Niue	12.9%	12.0%
173	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	12.8%	9.9%
174	Eswatini	12.3%	10.2%
175	Tajikistan	12.1%	10.6%
176	Iraq	11.9%	9.6%
177	Saudi Arabia	11.9%	10.8%
178	Bahrain	11.6%	10.3%
179	Namibia	11.3%	9.5%
180	Senegal	10.9%	8.2%
181	Solomon Islands	10.8%	8.6%
182	Tonga	10.8%	10.0%
183	Lesotho	10.8%	9.0%
184	Eritrea	10.7%	7.3%
185	Ghana	10.6%	9.0%
186	Papua New Guinea	10.6%	9.1%
187	Rwanda	10.4%	8.2%
188	Oman	10.3%	9.4%
189	Kiribati	10.3%	9.5%
190	Vanuatu	10.1%	9.0%
191	Uganda	9.9%	6.7%
192	Gambia	9.9%	7.6%
193	Pakistan	9.9%	8.1%
194	Sao Tome and Principe	9.8%	7.7%
195	Kenya	9.7%	7.5%
196	Ethiopia	9.6%	7.2%
197	Comoros	9.4%	7.7%
198	Sierra Leone	9.4%	7.2%
199	Guinea-Bissau	9.2%	7.3%
200	Sudan	9.2%	7.1%
201	Gabon	9.1%	8.6%
202	Malawi	9.1%	6.8%
203	Tuvalu	8.9%	8.8%
204	Yemen	8.8%	7.3%
205	Guinea	8.4%	6.5%
206	Mayotte	8.4%	8.1%
207	Madagascar	8.3%	6.6%
208	Samoa	8.0%	7.9%
209	Zambia	7.9%	6.3%
210	Burkina Faso	7.9%	6.1%
211	Afghanistan	7.7%	5.5%
212	Liberia	7.7%	5.9%
213	South Sudan	7.7%	5.5%
214	Kuwait	7.6%	7.0%
215	Zimbabwe	7.6%	5.9%
216	Mauritania	7.6%	6.0%
217	Cameroon	7.4%	6.1%
218	Equatorial Guinea	7.4%	7.2%
219	United Arab Emirates	7.3%	3.6%
220	Congo	7.1%	6.1%
221	United Republic of Tanzania	7.1%	5.6%
222	Togo	7.1%	6.1%
223	Benin	7.1%	5.9%
224	Nauru	6.8%	7.3%
225	Nigeria	6.7%	5.3%
226	Burundi	6.7%	5.7%
227	Mozambique	6.2%	4.7%
228	Niger	6.0%	4.4%
229	Côte d'Ivoire	5.9%	5.4%
230	Angola	5.7%	4.8%
231	Somalia	5.7%	4.4%
232	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5.3%	4.3%
233	Chad	5.3%	4.1%
234	Mali	5.3%	4.2%
235	Marshall Islands	5.0%	8.4%
236	Central African Republic	4.6%	2.8%
237	Qatar	3.9%	3.7%

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