Share aged 65+ by country, 2073

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

◀▶2073

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2063
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	57.8%	55.9%
2	Puerto Rico	50.7%	42.6%
3	China, Macao SAR	46.9%	45.6%
4	Republic of Korea	46.4%	44.6%
5	Singapore	43.9%	37.4%
6	Andorra	43.5%	41.3%
7	China, Taiwan Province of China	42.7%	42.6%
8	Albania	41.4%	37.6%
9	China	40.6%	37.9%
10	Malta	40.1%	39.7%
11	Chile	38.4%	34.5%
12	Mauritius	38.4%	33.4%
13	Ukraine	37.8%	35.6%
14	French Polynesia	37.2%	33.6%
15	Bermuda	36.7%	36.0%
16	Maldives	36.7%	37.8%
17	Poland	36.6%	36.9%
18	Costa Rica	36.5%	32.4%
19	Japan	36.4%	36.9%
20	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.2%	35.0%
21	Italy	36.1%	36.3%
22	Anguilla	35.9%	31.0%
23	Lithuania	35.9%	34.2%
24	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	35.3%	34.0%
25	Spain	35.1%	35.8%
26	Cuba	34.8%	33.3%
27	British Virgin Islands	34.4%	33.4%
28	Jamaica	34.2%	28.9%
29	Thailand	34.0%	32.4%
30	Saint Barthélemy	33.9%	28.0%
31	Curaçao	33.3%	29.8%
32	Greece	33.1%	33.4%
33	Croatia	33.0%	32.1%
34	Uruguay	32.9%	28.7%
35	Cyprus	32.8%	32.9%
36	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	32.8%	27.5%
37	North Macedonia	32.8%	31.5%
38	Isle of Man	32.6%	31.6%
39	Iceland	32.4%	30.0%
40	Estonia	32.3%	32.8%
41	Antigua and Barbuda	32.2%	29.4%
42	San Marino	32.1%	33.0%
43	Slovakia	32.1%	33.3%
44	Austria	32.0%	32.5%
45	Guernsey	31.9%	31.6%
46	Serbia	31.9%	31.3%
47	Türkiye	31.9%	28.2%
48	Grenada	31.8%	28.2%
49	Colombia	31.8%	27.3%
50	Latvia	31.8%	31.5%
51	Finland	31.7%	30.4%
52	Belarus	31.6%	31.8%
53	Turks and Caicos Islands	31.2%	30.7%
54	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	31.1%	36.2%
55	Saint Lucia	31.0%	27.5%
56	Norway	31.0%	29.7%
57	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	30.5%	29.8%
58	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	30.5%	29.0%
59	Switzerland	30.5%	31.5%
60	Saint Helena	30.5%	31.3%
61	Netherlands	30.4%	28.2%
62	Portugal	30.3%	31.2%
63	Montenegro	30.3%	29.1%
64	Luxembourg	30.2%	29.8%
65	Bhutan	29.9%	25.4%
66	Brazil	29.9%	27.3%
67	Cabo Verde	29.8%	25.1%
68	Slovenia	29.8%	31.6%
69	Belgium	29.7%	29.0%
70	Germany	29.6%	30.3%
71	Wallis and Futuna Islands	29.4%	25.3%
72	Gibraltar	29.4%	26.8%
73	Trinidad and Tobago	29.4%	28.7%
74	Armenia	29.3%	30.0%
75	Sweden	29.3%	28.5%
76	Bulgaria	29.3%	30.7%
77	Martinique	29.2%	30.4%
78	Ireland	29.1%	27.3%
79	Argentina	29.0%	25.2%
80	Canada	29.0%	27.7%
81	Liechtenstein	29.0%	29.3%
82	Romania	29.0%	29.1%
83	Denmark	28.9%	27.4%
84	Barbados	28.8%	26.4%
85	Guadeloupe	28.5%	28.6%
86	Jersey	28.4%	28.6%
87	Czechia	28.3%	30.1%
88	Montserrat	28.3%	28.5%
89	New Zealand	28.0%	26.7%
90	Aruba	27.9%	25.6%
91	France	27.9%	27.0%
92	Saint Kitts and Nevis	27.8%	25.6%
93	United Kingdom	27.7%	26.5%
94	Cayman Islands	27.7%	28.1%
95	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	27.4%	24.9%
96	Hungary	27.3%	28.2%
97	Ecuador	27.2%	23.1%
98	El Salvador	26.9%	21.5%
99	Bahamas	26.7%	25.0%
100	Réunion	26.7%	25.9%
101	Malaysia	26.6%	22.9%
102	Sri Lanka	26.5%	23.5%
103	Tunisia	26.5%	25.1%
104	Peru	26.3%	22.9%
105	Australia	26.2%	25.8%
106	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	26.2%	24.4%
107	United States of America	26.1%	24.7%
108	Faroe Islands	26.1%	23.4%
109	Brunei Darussalam	26.0%	24.8%
110	New Caledonia	25.8%	24.0%
111	Seychelles	25.6%	25.3%
112	Viet Nam	25.5%	24.9%
113	Mexico	25.5%	21.8%
114	Panama	25.1%	22.3%
115	Belize	25.0%	19.8%
116	Dominica	24.5%	22.9%
117	United States Virgin Islands	24.4%	24.1%
118	Georgia	24.2%	23.9%
119	India	24.1%	20.0%
120	Monaco	24.1%	24.6%
121	Bangladesh	23.7%	19.0%
122	Azerbaijan	23.5%	23.3%
123	Russian Federation	23.5%	25.0%
124	Morocco	23.2%	20.7%
125	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	23.0%	21.2%
126	Holy See	22.8%	21.3%
127	Republic of Moldova	22.6%	24.6%
128	Lebanon	21.9%	18.2%
129	Greenland	21.8%	22.0%
130	Tokelau	21.7%	16.9%
131	Dominican Republic	21.6%	18.9%
132	Nicaragua	21.6%	18.1%
133	Libya	21.1%	18.5%
134	Suriname	20.9%	17.7%
135	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	20.8%	17.4%
136	Northern Mariana Islands	20.8%	21.4%
137	Nepal	20.7%	15.7%
138	Palau	20.5%	21.1%
139	Indonesia	20.1%	17.9%
140	Guam	20.1%	19.1%
141	Philippines	19.9%	15.8%
142	Algeria	19.8%	19.6%
143	Paraguay	19.2%	17.0%
144	Guatemala	19.1%	14.9%
145	Syrian Arab Republic	18.8%	12.8%
146	Western Sahara	18.8%	18.4%
147	Myanmar	18.6%	16.5%
148	Honduras	18.3%	14.7%
149	Jordan	18.2%	15.8%
150	Israel	17.9%	16.6%
151	Lao People's Democratic Republic	17.8%	14.6%
152	American Samoa	17.7%	16.7%
153	Cook Islands	17.1%	21.9%
154	Guyana	17.0%	14.4%
155	Cambodia	16.8%	15.2%
156	Saint Martin (French part)	16.2%	22.7%
157	Turkmenistan	15.7%	15.2%
158	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	15.7%	13.2%
159	Timor-Leste	15.7%	10.9%
160	Kazakhstan	15.2%	15.6%
161	Botswana	15.2%	12.6%
162	Fiji	15.1%	13.3%
163	State of Palestine	15.0%	12.1%
164	Mongolia	14.9%	15.0%
165	South Africa	14.8%	14.0%
166	Egypt	14.7%	12.6%
167	Djibouti	14.4%	12.0%
168	Kyrgyzstan	14.3%	13.1%
169	French Guiana	14.3%	12.9%
170	Niue	14.1%	12.3%
171	Haiti	13.5%	11.5%
172	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	13.3%	10.5%
173	Uzbekistan	12.9%	13.1%
174	Eswatini	12.8%	10.6%
175	Iraq	12.5%	10.0%
176	Saudi Arabia	12.3%	10.9%
177	Tajikistan	12.3%	11.0%
178	Bahrain	12.0%	10.5%
179	Eritrea	11.5%	7.9%
180	Tonga	11.5%	9.6%
181	Namibia	11.5%	9.9%
182	Senegal	11.4%	8.7%
183	Solomon Islands	11.3%	9.0%
184	Lesotho	11.1%	9.4%
185	Ghana	11.0%	9.3%
186	Rwanda	11.0%	8.5%
187	Papua New Guinea	10.9%	9.4%
188	Uganda	10.5%	7.3%
189	Oman	10.5%	9.7%
190	Gambia	10.5%	8.0%
191	Sao Tome and Principe	10.5%	7.9%
192	Vanuatu	10.5%	9.2%
193	Kiribati	10.4%	9.9%
194	Pakistan	10.4%	8.4%
195	Kenya	10.3%	7.9%
196	Ethiopia	10.2%	7.7%
197	Sierra Leone	9.9%	7.6%
198	Comoros	9.8%	8.0%
199	Malawi	9.7%	7.2%
200	Guinea-Bissau	9.6%	7.7%
201	Sudan	9.6%	7.5%
202	Gabon	9.3%	8.6%
203	Tuvalu	9.2%	9.0%
204	Yemen	9.1%	7.6%
205	Mayotte	8.9%	8.2%
206	Guinea	8.7%	6.9%
207	Madagascar	8.6%	7.0%
208	Samoa	8.4%	7.9%
209	Zambia	8.4%	6.6%
210	Burkina Faso	8.4%	6.4%
211	South Sudan	8.4%	5.6%
212	Liberia	8.2%	6.2%
213	Afghanistan	8.1%	6.0%
214	Zimbabwe	8.1%	6.1%
215	Mauritania	8.1%	6.3%
216	Kuwait	7.9%	7.0%
217	United Arab Emirates	7.8%	4.3%
218	Cameroon	7.8%	6.3%
219	Equatorial Guinea	7.7%	7.2%
220	Congo	7.5%	6.2%
221	United Republic of Tanzania	7.5%	5.9%
222	Togo	7.4%	6.3%
223	Benin	7.4%	6.2%
224	Nigeria	7.1%	5.4%
225	Nauru	7.1%	7.2%
226	Burundi	7.1%	5.8%
227	Mozambique	6.5%	5.0%
228	Niger	6.4%	4.6%
229	Marshall Islands	6.4%	7.0%
230	Côte d'Ivoire	6.2%	5.4%
231	Angola	6.0%	4.9%
232	Somalia	6.0%	4.6%
233	Mali	5.7%	4.3%
234	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5.6%	4.5%
235	Chad	5.5%	4.3%
236	Central African Republic	4.9%	3.1%
237	Qatar	4.5%	3.7%

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