Share aged 65+ by country, 2079

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

◀▶2079

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2069
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	59.5%	57.4%
2	Puerto Rico	53.8%	47.8%
3	Republic of Korea	47.6%	46.1%
4	China, Macao SAR	47.3%	47.2%
5	Andorra	44.2%	42.9%
6	China	43.9%	39.4%
7	Singapore	43.0%	42.5%
8	Albania	42.7%	40.6%
9	China, Taiwan Province of China	42.7%	42.9%
10	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	40.6%	31.8%
11	Ukraine	40.4%	36.7%
12	Chile	40.3%	37.2%
13	Malta	40.0%	40.2%
14	French Polynesia	39.9%	35.7%
15	Mauritius	39.2%	36.5%
16	Anguilla	38.8%	33.4%
17	Saint Barthélemy	38.7%	30.6%
18	Costa Rica	38.5%	35.1%
19	Bermuda	37.6%	36.5%
20	Poland	37.4%	36.7%
21	Italy	37.0%	35.8%
22	Lithuania	37.0%	35.6%
23	Japan	36.8%	36.4%
24	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.5%	35.8%
25	Maldives	36.5%	37.7%
26	Cuba	36.4%	34.5%
27	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	36.4%	30.8%
28	Jamaica	35.7%	32.3%
29	Spain	35.7%	34.9%
30	Curaçao	35.2%	32.3%
31	Uruguay	35.1%	31.3%
32	Thailand	35.1%	33.3%
33	Wallis and Futuna Islands	34.9%	26.2%
34	British Virgin Islands	34.9%	33.6%
35	Isle of Man	34.5%	32.0%
36	Greece	34.4%	32.7%
37	North Macedonia	34.4%	32.4%
38	Croatia	34.2%	32.5%
39	Grenada	34.1%	30.5%
40	Türkiye	34.0%	30.9%
41	Belarus	33.8%	31.5%
42	Iceland	33.6%	31.5%
43	Antigua and Barbuda	33.6%	31.3%
44	Estonia	33.5%	32.0%
45	San Marino	33.3%	32.0%
46	Cabo Verde	33.2%	27.7%
47	Latvia	33.2%	31.2%
48	Colombia	33.1%	30.4%
49	Finland	33.1%	30.9%
50	Guernsey	32.9%	31.8%
51	Cyprus	32.5%	33.0%
52	Slovakia	32.2%	32.5%
53	Serbia	32.2%	31.7%
54	Austria	32.1%	32.0%
55	Saint Helena	32.0%	30.2%
56	Norway	32.0%	30.3%
57	Montenegro	31.8%	29.9%
58	Argentina	31.7%	27.5%
59	Bhutan	31.7%	28.2%
60	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	31.6%	30.3%
61	Saint Lucia	31.6%	30.1%
62	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	31.4%	30.0%
63	Turks and Caicos Islands	31.3%	31.2%
64	Netherlands	31.2%	29.7%
65	Belgium	31.0%	29.2%
66	Ireland	30.9%	28.1%
67	Brazil	30.9%	29.1%
68	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	30.7%	32.7%
69	Martinique	30.7%	28.6%
70	Switzerland	30.6%	30.8%
71	Sweden	30.6%	28.7%
72	Luxembourg	30.6%	30.0%
73	Slovenia	30.5%	30.2%
74	Gibraltar	30.3%	28.4%
75	Trinidad and Tobago	30.2%	29.2%
76	Portugal	30.2%	30.5%
77	Guadeloupe	30.1%	27.3%
78	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	30.1%	25.7%
79	Montserrat	30.1%	27.5%
80	Armenia	30.0%	29.7%
81	Barbados	30.0%	27.9%
82	Aruba	29.9%	26.5%
83	Romania	29.9%	28.7%
84	Denmark	29.7%	28.2%
85	Canada	29.6%	28.6%
86	Germany	29.6%	29.7%
87	Bulgaria	29.6%	29.7%
88	Ecuador	29.5%	25.7%
89	Liechtenstein	29.4%	28.9%
90	United Kingdom	29.2%	27.0%
91	El Salvador	29.2%	25.3%
92	Jersey	29.2%	28.2%
93	New Zealand	29.2%	27.3%
94	France	29.2%	27.3%
95	Czechia	28.9%	28.5%
96	Tunisia	28.9%	25.9%
97	Réunion	28.6%	25.6%
98	Sri Lanka	28.4%	25.2%
99	Cayman Islands	28.1%	27.6%
100	Malaysia	28.1%	25.3%
101	Saint Kitts and Nevis	28.0%	27.2%
102	Bahamas	28.0%	25.9%
103	Peru	28.0%	25.0%
104	Mexico	27.6%	24.0%
105	Hungary	27.5%	27.3%
106	Viet Nam	27.5%	25.0%
107	Faroe Islands	27.2%	24.9%
108	United States of America	27.1%	25.4%
109	Panama	26.9%	24.0%
110	Australia	26.8%	25.9%
111	New Caledonia	26.8%	25.0%
112	Belize	26.8%	23.3%
113	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	26.8%	25.8%
114	Brunei Darussalam	26.5%	25.8%
115	Dominica	26.1%	23.8%
116	India	26.0%	22.6%
117	Georgia	26.0%	24.0%
118	Bangladesh	26.0%	21.8%
119	Azerbaijan	25.5%	22.9%
120	United States Virgin Islands	25.5%	23.7%
121	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	25.4%	22.3%
122	Morocco	25.3%	22.1%
123	Seychelles	25.0%	25.9%
124	Lebanon	25.0%	20.3%
125	Holy See	24.7%	22.5%
126	Russian Federation	24.6%	23.7%
127	Northern Mariana Islands	24.6%	19.3%
128	Republic of Moldova	24.5%	22.8%
129	Monaco	24.3%	24.2%
130	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	23.9%	18.8%
131	Nicaragua	23.6%	20.3%
132	Cook Islands	23.5%	16.5%
133	Libya	23.4%	19.8%
134	Dominican Republic	23.3%	20.6%
135	Nepal	23.3%	18.7%
136	Tokelau	23.1%	20.0%
137	Suriname	22.6%	19.8%
138	Philippines	22.6%	18.3%
139	Palau	22.1%	20.0%
140	Algeria	21.9%	19.4%
141	Greenland	21.9%	22.1%
142	Indonesia	21.8%	19.1%
143	Guam	21.6%	19.7%
144	American Samoa	21.5%	15.9%
145	Guatemala	21.2%	17.6%
146	Syrian Arab Republic	21.2%	16.7%
147	Jordan	20.6%	16.9%
148	Paraguay	20.4%	18.5%
149	Saint Martin (French part)	19.9%	16.5%
150	Honduras	19.9%	17.0%
151	Western Sahara	19.7%	18.5%
152	Myanmar	19.6%	17.8%
153	Lao People's Democratic Republic	19.5%	16.7%
154	Israel	19.2%	17.2%
155	Guyana	18.6%	16.2%
156	Cambodia	18.2%	15.9%
157	Timor-Leste	17.9%	13.7%
158	Mongolia	17.5%	14.6%
159	State of Palestine	17.3%	13.8%
160	Turkmenistan	17.1%	15.9%
161	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	17.0%	14.7%
162	Egypt	16.7%	13.8%
163	Niue	16.7%	12.4%
164	Kazakhstan	16.6%	15.0%
165	Fiji	16.6%	14.2%
166	Kyrgyzstan	16.1%	13.7%
167	Botswana	16.1%	14.4%
168	French Guiana	15.8%	13.3%
169	Djibouti	15.6%	13.3%
170	South Africa	15.4%	14.4%
171	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	15.0%	12.3%
172	Tonga	14.9%	10.1%
173	Haiti	14.8%	12.7%
174	Iraq	14.5%	11.5%
175	Eswatini	14.2%	11.9%
176	Tajikistan	14.0%	12.0%
177	Eritrea	13.6%	9.9%
178	Saudi Arabia	13.5%	11.5%
179	Uzbekistan	13.3%	13.0%
180	Bahrain	13.2%	11.2%
181	Senegal	12.9%	10.4%
182	Solomon Islands	12.9%	10.4%
183	Lesotho	12.7%	10.4%
184	Namibia	12.6%	11.0%
185	Rwanda	12.6%	9.8%
186	Uganda	12.5%	9.3%
187	Gambia	12.5%	9.4%
188	Ghana	12.4%	10.2%
189	Sao Tome and Principe	12.4%	9.2%
190	Pakistan	12.0%	9.6%
191	Kenya	11.9%	9.2%
192	Vanuatu	11.9%	9.9%
193	Papua New Guinea	11.9%	10.3%
194	Marshall Islands	11.9%	4.3%
195	Ethiopia	11.6%	9.1%
196	Oman	11.6%	10.2%
197	Kiribati	11.6%	10.3%
198	Malawi	11.4%	8.6%
199	Sierra Leone	11.3%	9.0%
200	Comoros	11.2%	9.0%
201	Tuvalu	11.2%	8.9%
202	Guinea-Bissau	11.1%	8.8%
203	Samoa	10.8%	7.7%
204	Gabon	10.6%	8.9%
205	Sudan	10.6%	8.8%
206	Mayotte	10.6%	8.1%
207	South Sudan	10.5%	7.0%
208	Burkina Faso	10.2%	7.5%
209	Yemen	10.1%	8.5%
210	Zimbabwe	10.1%	7.1%
211	Guinea	9.9%	8.0%
212	Zambia	9.7%	7.6%
213	Liberia	9.7%	7.3%
214	Madagascar	9.6%	8.0%
215	Mauritania	9.6%	7.3%
216	Afghanistan	9.3%	7.3%
217	United Arab Emirates	9.3%	6.6%
218	Congo	9.1%	6.8%
219	Cameroon	9.0%	7.1%
220	Nauru	9.0%	6.8%
221	Kuwait	8.9%	7.3%
222	Burundi	8.9%	6.3%
223	Equatorial Guinea	8.9%	7.2%
224	Nigeria	8.6%	6.3%
225	United Republic of Tanzania	8.5%	6.8%
226	Togo	8.5%	6.9%
227	Benin	8.4%	6.9%
228	Niger	7.8%	5.6%
229	Mozambique	7.7%	5.9%
230	Côte d'Ivoire	7.2%	5.7%
231	Angola	7.1%	5.4%
232	Mali	6.8%	5.0%
233	Somalia	6.7%	5.5%
234	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.5%	5.1%
235	Chad	6.2%	5.1%
236	Central African Republic	6.2%	4.2%
237	Qatar	6.0%	3.5%

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