Share aged 65+ by country, 2085

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

◀▶2085

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2075
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	60.1%	58.1%
2	Puerto Rico	54.7%	51.9%
3	China, Macao SAR	48.9%	46.7%
4	Republic of Korea	47.9%	46.7%
5	China	47.5%	41.6%
6	Andorra	43.7%	43.8%
7	China, Taiwan Province of China	43.7%	42.6%
8	Albania	43.6%	41.7%
9	Saint Barthélemy	42.9%	35.6%
10	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	42.8%	37.0%
11	Ukraine	42.1%	38.6%
12	Chile	41.9%	39.0%
13	Singapore	41.8%	43.8%
14	French Polynesia	41.2%	38.2%
15	Costa Rica	40.2%	37.3%
16	Malta	39.8%	40.1%
17	Mauritius	39.1%	38.9%
18	Anguilla	39.0%	37.2%
19	Lithuania	38.9%	36.2%
20	Wallis and Futuna Islands	38.4%	31.3%
21	Poland	38.4%	36.9%
22	Bermuda	38.2%	37.1%
23	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	37.7%	34.0%
24	Cuba	37.6%	35.2%
25	Italy	37.5%	36.5%
26	Japan	37.2%	36.5%
27	Uruguay	36.9%	33.6%
28	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.7%	36.4%
29	Cabo Verde	36.5%	30.9%
30	North Macedonia	36.5%	33.2%
31	Belarus	36.4%	32.1%
32	Curaçao	36.2%	33.7%
33	Spain	36.2%	35.3%
34	Türkiye	36.1%	32.5%
35	Jamaica	35.9%	34.9%
36	Latvia	35.7%	32.4%
37	Thailand	35.6%	34.4%
38	Greece	35.3%	33.6%
39	Maldives	35.2%	36.6%
40	Isle of Man	35.0%	33.3%
41	Estonia	34.8%	32.7%
42	Grenada	34.8%	32.6%
43	Croatia	34.8%	33.5%
44	British Virgin Islands	34.7%	35.1%
45	Argentina	34.0%	29.9%
46	Iceland	33.9%	32.9%
47	San Marino	33.9%	32.5%
48	Finland	33.8%	32.2%
49	Antigua and Barbuda	33.7%	33.0%
50	Colombia	33.7%	32.4%
51	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	33.6%	30.8%
52	Saint Helena	33.5%	30.8%
53	Montenegro	33.4%	30.8%
54	Guernsey	33.2%	32.2%
55	Slovakia	33.1%	32.1%
56	Serbia	33.0%	31.9%
57	Cyprus	32.6%	32.7%
58	Austria	32.5%	32.0%
59	Norway	32.5%	31.4%
60	Ireland	32.2%	29.7%
61	Turks and Caicos Islands	32.0%	31.4%
62	Bhutan	32.0%	30.5%
63	Brazil	32.0%	30.2%
64	Saint Lucia	31.8%	31.5%
65	Belgium	31.8%	30.2%
66	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	31.6%	30.9%
67	Sweden	31.6%	29.8%
68	Tunisia	31.6%	27.1%
69	Martinique	31.5%	29.8%
70	Netherlands	31.4%	30.8%
71	Aruba	31.2%	28.5%
72	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	31.2%	28.3%
73	Slovenia	31.2%	30.0%
74	Trinidad and Tobago	31.2%	29.6%
75	Armenia	31.0%	29.4%
76	Ecuador	31.0%	28.0%
77	Romania	31.0%	29.4%
78	Luxembourg	31.0%	30.4%
79	Guadeloupe	30.9%	29.0%
80	Switzerland	30.9%	30.5%
81	Montserrat	30.9%	29.4%
82	Barbados	30.7%	29.4%
83	El Salvador	30.6%	27.7%
84	Gibraltar	30.6%	29.8%
85	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	30.6%	30.9%
86	United Kingdom	30.3%	28.2%
87	Denmark	30.3%	29.3%
88	Bulgaria	30.3%	29.4%
89	Germany	30.2%	29.6%
90	Czechia	30.1%	28.5%
91	Portugal	30.1%	30.3%
92	Réunion	30.0%	27.4%
93	Sri Lanka	29.9%	27.2%
94	France	29.9%	28.4%
95	Liechtenstein	29.9%	29.2%
96	Canada	29.8%	29.3%
97	New Zealand	29.8%	28.4%
98	Jersey	29.7%	28.6%
99	Malaysia	29.4%	27.1%
100	Viet Nam	29.2%	26.0%
101	Peru	29.2%	27.0%
102	Mexico	29.2%	26.2%
103	Cook Islands	28.9%	19.0%
104	Saint Kitts and Nevis	28.9%	28.0%
105	Belize	28.7%	25.7%
106	Georgia	28.5%	24.7%
107	Panama	28.5%	25.7%
108	Faroe Islands	28.5%	26.6%
109	Cayman Islands	28.4%	27.8%
110	Bahamas	28.3%	27.3%
111	Hungary	28.3%	27.5%
112	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	27.8%	26.4%
113	New Caledonia	27.7%	26.1%
114	Republic of Moldova	27.7%	23.0%
115	United States of America	27.6%	26.5%
116	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	27.5%	23.7%
117	Bangladesh	27.5%	24.6%
118	Brunei Darussalam	27.4%	26.1%
119	India	27.3%	24.8%
120	Dominica	27.3%	25.0%
121	Australia	27.1%	26.4%
122	Morocco	27.1%	23.9%
123	Northern Mariana Islands	27.0%	22.1%
124	Azerbaijan	26.9%	24.1%
125	Lebanon	26.9%	22.9%
126	United States Virgin Islands	26.4%	24.8%
127	Russian Federation	26.1%	23.7%
128	Holy See	26.0%	23.4%
129	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	25.9%	21.8%
130	Nicaragua	25.4%	22.3%
131	Libya	25.4%	21.8%
132	Nepal	25.3%	21.6%
133	American Samoa	25.1%	18.9%
134	Algeria	25.0%	20.3%
135	Monaco	25.0%	24.2%
136	Seychelles	24.9%	25.3%
137	Dominican Republic	24.9%	22.1%
138	Philippines	24.8%	20.8%
139	Suriname	24.0%	21.5%
140	Saint Martin (French part)	23.9%	17.1%
141	Guam	23.8%	20.5%
142	Tokelau	23.4%	22.5%
143	Greenland	23.3%	21.8%
144	Indonesia	23.2%	20.6%
145	Palau	23.2%	21.0%
146	Guatemala	23.1%	19.8%
147	Jordan	22.4%	19.0%
148	Paraguay	22.0%	19.6%
149	Honduras	21.4%	18.8%
150	Lao People's Democratic Republic	21.3%	18.4%
151	Western Sahara	21.0%	19.0%
152	Israel	20.8%	18.3%
153	Syrian Arab Republic	20.8%	19.8%
154	Myanmar	20.8%	18.9%
155	Mongolia	20.6%	15.5%
156	Guyana	20.5%	17.5%
157	Timor-Leste	20.3%	16.5%
158	Cambodia	19.9%	17.3%
159	State of Palestine	19.8%	15.7%
160	Turkmenistan	19.6%	15.9%
161	Egypt	18.8%	15.3%
162	Kazakhstan	18.5%	15.6%
163	Kyrgyzstan	18.4%	14.8%
164	Fiji	18.4%	15.6%
165	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	18.2%	16.2%
166	Tonga	17.7%	12.5%
167	Niue	17.5%	14.9%
168	Botswana	17.2%	15.5%
169	French Guiana	17.2%	14.8%
170	Djibouti	16.6%	14.8%
171	Marshall Islands	16.3%	8.2%
172	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	16.3%	13.9%
173	Tajikistan	16.2%	12.8%
174	South Africa	16.1%	15.0%
175	Iraq	16.0%	13.0%
176	Haiti	15.9%	13.9%
177	Eswatini	15.6%	13.3%
178	Eritrea	15.0%	12.2%
179	Uzbekistan	14.6%	13.0%
180	Uganda	14.5%	11.2%
181	Saudi Arabia	14.4%	12.7%
182	Solomon Islands	14.4%	11.8%
183	Namibia	14.3%	11.8%
184	Lesotho	14.3%	11.6%
185	Gambia	14.2%	11.1%
186	Tuvalu	14.2%	9.7%
187	Rwanda	14.2%	11.6%
188	Senegal	14.1%	11.9%
189	Bahrain	14.1%	12.5%
190	Sao Tome and Principe	14.0%	11.2%
191	Ghana	13.8%	11.4%
192	Vanuatu	13.6%	10.9%
193	Samoa	13.4%	9.1%
194	Pakistan	13.4%	10.9%
195	Oman	13.2%	10.8%
196	Ethiopia	13.1%	10.7%
197	Kiribati	13.0%	10.8%
198	Kenya	13.0%	10.9%
199	Papua New Guinea	13.0%	11.3%
200	Comoros	12.8%	10.2%
201	Malawi	12.7%	10.3%
202	Sierra Leone	12.5%	10.4%
203	Guinea-Bissau	12.4%	10.1%
204	Mayotte	12.2%	9.4%
205	Gabon	12.1%	9.7%
206	Sudan	11.8%	9.9%
207	Yemen	11.7%	9.4%
208	Burkina Faso	11.7%	9.0%
209	Zimbabwe	11.6%	8.7%
210	Guinea	11.1%	9.1%
211	Mauritania	11.1%	8.6%
212	South Sudan	11.0%	9.2%
213	Zambia	10.9%	8.8%
214	Liberia	10.8%	8.7%
215	Afghanistan	10.6%	8.4%
216	Madagascar	10.5%	9.0%
217	Nauru	10.4%	7.6%
218	Burundi	10.4%	7.6%
219	Cameroon	10.3%	8.2%
220	Congo	10.3%	8.0%
221	Equatorial Guinea	10.3%	8.1%
222	United Arab Emirates	10.1%	8.4%
223	Nigeria	9.8%	7.6%
224	United Republic of Tanzania	9.7%	7.8%
225	Benin	9.6%	7.7%
226	Kuwait	9.4%	8.3%
227	Togo	9.4%	7.8%
228	Niger	9.2%	6.9%
229	Mozambique	8.9%	6.8%
230	Angola	8.3%	6.3%
231	Côte d'Ivoire	8.3%	6.5%
232	Mali	8.0%	6.0%
233	Somalia	7.7%	6.2%
234	Democratic Republic of the Congo	7.6%	5.8%
235	Qatar	7.2%	5.1%
236	Central African Republic	7.2%	5.3%
237	Chad	7.1%	5.7%

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