Share aged 65+ by country, 2072

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

◀▶2072

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2062
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	57.6%	55.5%
2	Puerto Rico	50.0%	41.9%
3	China, Macao SAR	47.0%	45.2%
4	Republic of Korea	46.2%	44.1%
5	Singapore	43.8%	36.5%
6	Andorra	43.4%	40.9%
7	China, Taiwan Province of China	42.7%	42.3%
8	Albania	41.3%	36.8%
9	China	40.3%	37.7%
10	Malta	40.2%	39.4%
11	Chile	38.1%	33.9%
12	Mauritius	38.0%	32.8%
13	Ukraine	37.5%	35.3%
14	Maldives	36.9%	37.1%
15	French Polynesia	36.8%	33.5%
16	Bermuda	36.6%	36.0%
17	Poland	36.5%	36.7%
18	Japan	36.4%	37.0%
19	Costa Rica	36.2%	31.9%
20	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.1%	34.7%
21	Italy	36.0%	36.5%
22	Lithuania	35.8%	33.8%
23	Anguilla	35.2%	30.8%
24	Spain	35.0%	36.0%
25	Cuba	34.7%	33.1%
26	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	34.3%	34.5%
27	British Virgin Islands	34.1%	33.3%
28	Jamaica	33.8%	28.1%
29	Thailand	33.8%	32.2%
30	Saint Barthélemy	33.1%	27.8%
31	Curaçao	33.0%	29.2%
32	Greece	32.9%	33.5%
33	Croatia	32.9%	31.9%
34	Cyprus	32.8%	32.8%
35	North Macedonia	32.7%	31.3%
36	Uruguay	32.5%	28.3%
37	Isle of Man	32.4%	31.6%
38	Iceland	32.2%	29.6%
39	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	32.2%	27.2%
40	Slovakia	32.2%	33.3%
41	Estonia	32.1%	32.9%
42	Antigua and Barbuda	32.0%	29.0%
43	Austria	32.0%	32.5%
44	San Marino	31.9%	33.3%
45	Guernsey	31.8%	31.6%
46	Serbia	31.8%	31.3%
47	Türkiye	31.7%	27.7%
48	Grenada	31.5%	27.7%
49	Colombia	31.5%	26.8%
50	Latvia	31.5%	31.7%
51	Finland	31.4%	30.3%
52	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	31.4%	36.6%
53	Belarus	31.4%	31.8%
54	Turks and Caicos Islands	31.1%	30.5%
55	Saint Lucia	30.8%	26.9%
56	Norway	30.8%	29.5%
57	Switzerland	30.6%	31.6%
58	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	30.4%	29.6%
59	Portugal	30.4%	31.3%
60	Netherlands	30.3%	28.0%
61	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	30.3%	28.8%
62	Saint Helena	30.2%	31.2%
63	Luxembourg	30.2%	29.6%
64	Montenegro	30.1%	28.9%
65	Slovenia	29.8%	31.8%
66	Brazil	29.7%	26.9%
67	Germany	29.6%	30.4%
68	Bhutan	29.5%	24.9%
69	Belgium	29.5%	29.0%
70	Armenia	29.4%	29.9%
71	Bulgaria	29.4%	31.0%
72	Cabo Verde	29.3%	24.6%
73	Trinidad and Tobago	29.3%	28.5%
74	Gibraltar	29.2%	26.6%
75	Sweden	29.1%	28.5%
76	Martinique	29.0%	30.9%
77	Liechtenstein	29.0%	29.3%
78	Canada	28.9%	27.5%
79	Romania	28.9%	29.1%
80	Ireland	28.8%	27.2%
81	Argentina	28.7%	24.8%
82	Denmark	28.7%	27.2%
83	Wallis and Futuna Islands	28.6%	25.6%
84	Barbados	28.5%	26.2%
85	Jersey	28.3%	28.7%
86	Czechia	28.2%	30.3%
87	Guadeloupe	28.1%	29.0%
88	Montserrat	28.1%	28.7%
89	France	27.8%	27.0%
90	New Zealand	27.7%	26.6%
91	Aruba	27.6%	25.6%
92	Cayman Islands	27.6%	28.2%
93	Saint Kitts and Nevis	27.6%	25.3%
94	United Kingdom	27.5%	26.4%
95	Hungary	27.3%	28.3%
96	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	26.9%	24.8%
97	Ecuador	26.8%	22.6%
98	El Salvador	26.5%	20.7%
99	Bahamas	26.5%	24.7%
100	Réunion	26.4%	26.1%
101	Tunisia	26.3%	25.0%
102	Malaysia	26.3%	22.5%
103	Sri Lanka	26.2%	23.3%
104	Australia	26.1%	25.7%
105	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	26.1%	24.1%
106	Brunei Darussalam	26.0%	24.5%
107	Peru	26.0%	22.5%
108	United States of America	25.9%	24.6%
109	Faroe Islands	25.9%	23.3%
110	Seychelles	25.7%	25.0%
111	New Caledonia	25.6%	23.9%
112	Viet Nam	25.3%	24.8%
113	Mexico	25.1%	21.4%
114	Panama	24.9%	22.1%
115	Belize	24.6%	19.2%
116	Dominica	24.3%	22.8%
117	United States Virgin Islands	24.2%	24.3%
118	Georgia	24.1%	23.8%
119	Monaco	24.1%	24.8%
120	India	23.8%	19.6%
121	Russian Federation	23.5%	25.3%
122	Azerbaijan	23.3%	23.3%
123	Bangladesh	23.3%	18.5%
124	Morocco	22.9%	20.4%
125	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	22.7%	21.0%
126	Republic of Moldova	22.6%	24.8%
127	Holy See	22.5%	21.3%
128	Greenland	21.8%	21.8%
129	Lebanon	21.5%	17.9%
130	Dominican Republic	21.3%	18.6%
131	Nicaragua	21.3%	17.7%
132	Tokelau	21.2%	16.2%
133	Libya	20.8%	18.3%
134	Suriname	20.6%	17.4%
135	Palau	20.3%	21.4%
136	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	20.3%	17.4%
137	Northern Mariana Islands	20.3%	22.0%
138	Nepal	20.2%	15.3%
139	Guam	20.0%	19.0%
140	Indonesia	19.8%	17.7%
141	Algeria	19.7%	19.5%
142	Philippines	19.5%	15.4%
143	Paraguay	19.0%	16.7%
144	Guatemala	18.7%	14.4%
145	Western Sahara	18.7%	18.4%
146	Myanmar	18.4%	16.2%
147	Syrian Arab Republic	18.3%	12.3%
148	Honduras	18.0%	14.3%
149	Jordan	17.8%	15.6%
150	Israel	17.7%	16.5%
151	Lao People's Democratic Republic	17.5%	14.3%
152	American Samoa	17.1%	17.3%
153	Guyana	16.7%	14.0%
154	Cambodia	16.6%	15.1%
155	Cook Islands	16.6%	22.9%
156	Saint Martin (French part)	16.0%	23.9%
157	Turkmenistan	15.7%	14.9%
158	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	15.5%	13.0%
159	Timor-Leste	15.3%	10.5%
160	Kazakhstan	15.1%	15.6%
161	Botswana	15.0%	12.3%
162	Fiji	14.8%	13.2%
163	Mongolia	14.7%	15.0%
164	State of Palestine	14.6%	11.9%
165	South Africa	14.6%	13.9%
166	Egypt	14.5%	12.4%
167	Kyrgyzstan	14.1%	12.9%
168	Djibouti	14.1%	11.8%
169	French Guiana	14.0%	12.9%
170	Niue	13.3%	12.3%
171	Haiti	13.3%	11.3%
172	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	13.1%	10.1%
173	Uzbekistan	12.8%	13.0%
174	Eswatini	12.6%	10.4%
175	Iraq	12.2%	9.8%
176	Tajikistan	12.2%	10.8%
177	Saudi Arabia	12.1%	10.9%
178	Bahrain	11.8%	10.4%
179	Namibia	11.4%	9.7%
180	Eritrea	11.1%	7.6%
181	Senegal	11.1%	8.4%
182	Solomon Islands	11.1%	8.8%
183	Tonga	11.1%	9.8%
184	Lesotho	10.9%	9.2%
185	Ghana	10.8%	9.2%
186	Papua New Guinea	10.8%	9.3%
187	Rwanda	10.8%	8.3%
188	Oman	10.4%	9.5%
189	Kiribati	10.3%	9.7%
190	Vanuatu	10.3%	9.1%
191	Uganda	10.2%	7.0%
192	Gambia	10.2%	7.8%
193	Sao Tome and Principe	10.2%	7.8%
194	Pakistan	10.1%	8.3%
195	Kenya	10.0%	7.7%
196	Ethiopia	9.9%	7.4%
197	Comoros	9.6%	7.8%
198	Sierra Leone	9.6%	7.4%
199	Guinea-Bissau	9.4%	7.5%
200	Sudan	9.4%	7.3%
201	Malawi	9.4%	7.0%
202	Gabon	9.2%	8.6%
203	Tuvalu	9.1%	8.9%
204	Yemen	8.9%	7.4%
205	Guinea	8.6%	6.7%
206	Mayotte	8.6%	8.2%
207	Madagascar	8.5%	6.8%
208	Samoa	8.2%	7.9%
209	Burkina Faso	8.2%	6.3%
210	Zambia	8.1%	6.4%
211	South Sudan	8.1%	5.6%
212	Liberia	8.0%	6.1%
213	Afghanistan	7.9%	5.8%
214	Mauritania	7.9%	6.1%
215	Kuwait	7.8%	7.1%
216	Zimbabwe	7.8%	6.0%
217	Cameroon	7.6%	6.2%
218	Equatorial Guinea	7.6%	7.2%
219	United Arab Emirates	7.5%	3.9%
220	Congo	7.3%	6.2%
221	United Republic of Tanzania	7.3%	5.7%
222	Togo	7.3%	6.2%
223	Benin	7.3%	6.0%
224	Nigeria	6.9%	5.4%
225	Nauru	6.9%	7.3%
226	Burundi	6.9%	5.8%
227	Mozambique	6.3%	4.9%
228	Niger	6.2%	4.5%
229	Côte d'Ivoire	6.0%	5.4%
230	Somalia	5.9%	4.5%
231	Angola	5.8%	4.9%
232	Marshall Islands	5.7%	7.6%
233	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5.5%	4.4%
234	Mali	5.5%	4.3%
235	Chad	5.4%	4.2%
236	Central African Republic	4.8%	2.9%
237	Qatar	4.2%	3.7%

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