Share aged 65+ by country, 2078

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

◀▶2078

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2068
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	59.3%	57.3%
2	Puerto Rico	53.4%	47.0%
3	Republic of Korea	47.4%	46.0%
4	China, Macao SAR	47.0%	47.3%
5	Andorra	44.2%	42.7%
6	Singapore	43.3%	41.9%
7	China	43.3%	39.2%
8	China, Taiwan Province of China	42.7%	42.9%
9	Albania	42.3%	40.3%
10	Chile	40.0%	36.9%
11	Malta	40.0%	40.2%
12	Ukraine	39.9%	36.5%
13	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	39.6%	31.4%
14	French Polynesia	39.5%	35.3%
15	Mauritius	39.2%	36.0%
16	Anguilla	38.6%	32.9%
17	Costa Rica	38.3%	34.8%
18	Saint Barthélemy	38.0%	29.9%
19	Bermuda	37.5%	36.4%
20	Poland	37.3%	36.8%
21	Italy	36.9%	35.8%
22	Lithuania	36.8%	35.5%
23	Japan	36.7%	36.5%
24	Maldives	36.6%	38.0%
25	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.5%	35.7%
26	Cuba	36.1%	34.3%
27	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	35.8%	30.3%
28	Spain	35.7%	35.0%
29	Jamaica	35.5%	31.8%
30	Thailand	35.0%	33.1%
31	British Virgin Islands	35.0%	33.6%
32	Curaçao	34.8%	32.0%
33	Uruguay	34.7%	30.9%
34	Greece	34.3%	32.7%
35	Wallis and Futuna Islands	34.2%	25.5%
36	Isle of Man	34.2%	31.8%
37	Croatia	34.1%	32.5%
38	North Macedonia	34.1%	32.3%
39	Grenada	33.7%	30.2%
40	Antigua and Barbuda	33.6%	31.1%
41	Türkiye	33.6%	30.6%
42	Iceland	33.5%	31.3%
43	Estonia	33.3%	32.1%
44	Belarus	33.2%	31.6%
45	San Marino	33.1%	32.1%
46	Colombia	32.9%	29.9%
47	Finland	32.9%	30.7%
48	Latvia	32.9%	31.2%
49	Guernsey	32.8%	31.7%
50	Cabo Verde	32.7%	27.2%
51	Cyprus	32.6%	33.0%
52	Slovakia	32.2%	32.7%
53	Serbia	32.1%	31.6%
54	Austria	32.0%	32.1%
55	Saint Helena	31.9%	30.2%
56	Norway	31.9%	30.2%
57	Saint Lucia	31.6%	29.8%
58	Montenegro	31.6%	29.8%
59	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	31.4%	29.8%
60	Bhutan	31.4%	27.7%
61	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	31.3%	30.2%
62	Turks and Caicos Islands	31.3%	31.2%
63	Argentina	31.2%	27.2%
64	Netherlands	31.1%	29.5%
65	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	30.9%	33.4%
66	Belgium	30.8%	29.1%
67	Ireland	30.7%	28.0%
68	Brazil	30.7%	28.9%
69	Luxembourg	30.6%	30.0%
70	Switzerland	30.5%	30.9%
71	Martinique	30.5%	28.6%
72	Sweden	30.4%	28.6%
73	Slovenia	30.4%	30.5%
74	Portugal	30.3%	30.6%
75	Gibraltar	30.2%	28.2%
76	Trinidad and Tobago	30.0%	29.1%
77	Montserrat	30.0%	27.7%
78	Armenia	29.8%	29.8%
79	Guadeloupe	29.8%	27.3%
80	Barbados	29.8%	27.7%
81	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	29.7%	25.4%
82	Denmark	29.7%	28.1%
83	Romania	29.7%	28.7%
84	Germany	29.6%	29.8%
85	Bulgaria	29.6%	29.9%
86	Aruba	29.5%	26.2%
87	Canada	29.5%	28.5%
88	Liechtenstein	29.3%	28.9%
89	Ecuador	29.2%	25.3%
90	Jersey	29.1%	28.3%
91	United Kingdom	29.0%	26.9%
92	New Zealand	29.0%	27.2%
93	France	29.0%	27.1%
94	El Salvador	28.8%	24.8%
95	Czechia	28.8%	28.7%
96	Tunisia	28.3%	25.8%
97	Réunion	28.3%	25.5%
98	Sri Lanka	28.1%	24.9%
99	Cayman Islands	28.0%	27.7%
100	Malaysia	27.9%	24.9%
101	Saint Kitts and Nevis	27.8%	27.1%
102	Bahamas	27.8%	25.7%
103	Peru	27.8%	24.6%
104	Hungary	27.5%	27.5%
105	Mexico	27.2%	23.7%
106	Faroe Islands	27.1%	24.6%
107	Viet Nam	27.0%	25.0%
108	United States of America	26.9%	25.2%
109	Australia	26.7%	25.9%
110	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	26.7%	25.6%
111	New Caledonia	26.6%	24.8%
112	Panama	26.6%	23.8%
113	Belize	26.5%	22.8%
114	Brunei Darussalam	26.4%	25.7%
115	Dominica	25.8%	23.8%
116	India	25.7%	22.2%
117	Georgia	25.7%	24.0%
118	Bangladesh	25.7%	21.3%
119	United States Virgin Islands	25.4%	23.6%
120	Azerbaijan	25.1%	23.0%
121	Seychelles	25.0%	25.9%
122	Morocco	25.0%	21.9%
123	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	24.9%	22.2%
124	Lebanon	24.5%	19.9%
125	Holy See	24.4%	22.2%
126	Russian Federation	24.3%	23.8%
127	Monaco	24.2%	24.2%
128	Northern Mariana Islands	24.0%	19.3%
129	Republic of Moldova	23.9%	23.0%
130	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	23.4%	18.5%
131	Nicaragua	23.3%	19.9%
132	Tokelau	23.2%	19.6%
133	Dominican Republic	23.0%	20.4%
134	Libya	23.0%	19.5%
135	Nepal	22.9%	18.2%
136	Cook Islands	22.4%	16.9%
137	Suriname	22.3%	19.5%
138	Philippines	22.2%	17.9%
139	Greenland	21.9%	22.2%
140	Palau	21.9%	19.9%
141	Indonesia	21.5%	18.9%
142	Algeria	21.4%	19.4%
143	Guam	21.3%	19.6%
144	Guatemala	20.9%	17.1%
145	Syrian Arab Republic	20.9%	16.1%
146	American Samoa	20.8%	15.6%
147	Paraguay	20.2%	18.4%
148	Jordan	20.2%	16.7%
149	Honduras	19.6%	16.6%
150	Western Sahara	19.5%	18.5%
151	Myanmar	19.4%	17.6%
152	Saint Martin (French part)	19.2%	17.1%
153	Lao People's Democratic Republic	19.2%	16.4%
154	Israel	19.0%	17.1%
155	Guyana	18.3%	16.0%
156	Cambodia	17.9%	15.8%
157	Timor-Leste	17.6%	13.2%
158	State of Palestine	16.9%	13.5%
159	Mongolia	16.9%	14.7%
160	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	16.8%	14.5%
161	Turkmenistan	16.7%	15.9%
162	Niue	16.5%	12.0%
163	Kazakhstan	16.4%	15.1%
164	Fiji	16.4%	14.0%
165	Egypt	16.3%	13.6%
166	Botswana	15.9%	14.1%
167	Kyrgyzstan	15.7%	13.6%
168	French Guiana	15.6%	13.1%
169	Djibouti	15.4%	13.0%
170	South Africa	15.3%	14.3%
171	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	14.7%	12.0%
172	Haiti	14.6%	12.5%
173	Tonga	14.3%	9.8%
174	Iraq	14.1%	11.2%
175	Eswatini	14.0%	11.7%
176	Tajikistan	13.6%	12.0%
177	Eritrea	13.3%	9.5%
178	Saudi Arabia	13.3%	11.4%
179	Uzbekistan	13.2%	13.0%
180	Bahrain	13.0%	11.1%
181	Senegal	12.7%	10.1%
182	Solomon Islands	12.6%	10.1%
183	Namibia	12.4%	10.9%
184	Lesotho	12.4%	10.2%
185	Rwanda	12.3%	9.5%
186	Uganda	12.2%	8.9%
187	Ghana	12.1%	10.1%
188	Gambia	12.1%	9.2%
189	Sao Tome and Principe	12.1%	8.9%
190	Pakistan	11.8%	9.4%
191	Papua New Guinea	11.8%	10.2%
192	Kenya	11.7%	8.9%
193	Vanuatu	11.6%	9.7%
194	Ethiopia	11.4%	8.8%
195	Kiribati	11.4%	10.3%
196	Oman	11.3%	10.1%
197	Sierra Leone	11.1%	8.8%
198	Malawi	11.1%	8.3%
199	Comoros	11.0%	8.9%
200	Marshall Islands	11.0%	4.3%
201	Guinea-Bissau	10.8%	8.6%
202	Tuvalu	10.8%	8.9%
203	Samoa	10.4%	7.7%
204	Sudan	10.4%	8.6%
205	Gabon	10.3%	8.8%
206	Mayotte	10.3%	8.1%
207	South Sudan	10.2%	6.7%
208	Yemen	9.9%	8.3%
209	Burkina Faso	9.9%	7.3%
210	Guinea	9.7%	7.9%
211	Zimbabwe	9.7%	6.9%
212	Zambia	9.5%	7.4%
213	Liberia	9.5%	7.1%
214	Madagascar	9.4%	7.9%
215	Mauritania	9.3%	7.1%
216	Afghanistan	9.1%	7.0%
217	United Arab Emirates	9.1%	6.2%
218	Cameroon	8.8%	7.0%
219	Congo	8.8%	6.7%
220	Kuwait	8.7%	7.1%
221	Nauru	8.7%	6.8%
222	Equatorial Guinea	8.7%	7.2%
223	Burundi	8.6%	6.2%
224	United Republic of Tanzania	8.3%	6.6%
225	Togo	8.3%	6.8%
226	Nigeria	8.3%	6.1%
227	Benin	8.2%	6.7%
228	Niger	7.5%	5.4%
229	Mozambique	7.4%	5.7%
230	Côte d'Ivoire	7.0%	5.6%
231	Angola	6.9%	5.3%
232	Mali	6.6%	4.9%
233	Somalia	6.5%	5.3%
234	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.3%	5.0%
235	Chad	6.1%	4.9%
236	Central African Republic	6.0%	4.0%
237	Qatar	5.8%	3.4%

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