Share aged 65+ by country, 2089

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

◀▶2089

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2079
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	60.0%	59.5%
2	Puerto Rico	54.0%	53.8%
3	China, Macao SAR	48.6%	47.3%
4	China	47.2%	43.9%
5	Republic of Korea	46.7%	47.6%
6	Saint Barthélemy	44.8%	38.7%
7	Albania	43.3%	42.7%
8	China, Taiwan Province of China	43.1%	42.7%
9	Andorra	42.7%	44.2%
10	Ukraine	42.1%	40.4%
11	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	42.0%	40.6%
12	Chile	41.9%	40.3%
13	French Polynesia	41.1%	39.9%
14	Singapore	40.8%	43.0%
15	Costa Rica	40.2%	38.5%
16	Malta	39.5%	40.0%
17	Mauritius	39.2%	39.2%
18	Anguilla	39.1%	38.8%
19	Lithuania	39.1%	37.0%
20	Poland	38.8%	37.4%
21	Bermuda	38.6%	37.6%
22	Wallis and Futuna Islands	37.9%	34.9%
23	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	37.8%	36.4%
24	Cuba	37.7%	36.4%
25	Italy	37.4%	37.0%
26	North Macedonia	37.2%	34.4%
27	Japan	37.1%	36.8%
28	Uruguay	36.9%	35.1%
29	Cabo Verde	36.8%	33.2%
30	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.8%	36.5%
31	Belarus	36.7%	33.8%
32	Türkiye	36.6%	34.0%
33	Latvia	36.3%	33.2%
34	Spain	36.1%	35.7%
35	Jamaica	36.0%	35.7%
36	Curaçao	35.6%	35.2%
37	Greece	35.6%	34.4%
38	Thailand	35.5%	35.1%
39	Estonia	35.2%	33.5%
40	Grenada	35.2%	34.1%
41	Isle of Man	35.2%	34.5%
42	Croatia	35.1%	34.2%
43	Iceland	34.4%	33.6%
44	Montenegro	34.4%	31.8%
45	British Virgin Islands	34.4%	34.9%
46	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	34.2%	31.6%
47	Colombia	34.2%	33.1%
48	Antigua and Barbuda	34.1%	33.6%
49	Argentina	34.0%	31.7%
50	San Marino	34.0%	33.3%
51	Saint Helena	33.9%	32.0%
52	Maldives	33.9%	36.5%
53	Finland	33.8%	33.1%
54	Slovakia	33.7%	32.2%
55	Serbia	33.5%	32.2%
56	Guernsey	33.1%	32.9%
57	Cyprus	33.1%	32.5%
58	Austria	32.8%	32.1%
59	Turks and Caicos Islands	32.8%	31.3%
60	Ireland	32.7%	30.9%
61	Norway	32.7%	32.0%
62	Tunisia	32.5%	28.9%
63	Brazil	32.4%	30.9%
64	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	32.1%	31.4%
65	Belgium	32.1%	31.0%
66	Montserrat	32.1%	30.1%
67	Saint Lucia	32.0%	31.6%
68	Sweden	31.9%	30.6%
69	Bhutan	31.9%	31.7%
70	Trinidad and Tobago	31.8%	30.2%
71	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	31.7%	30.7%
72	Martinique	31.7%	30.7%
73	Netherlands	31.6%	31.2%
74	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	31.6%	30.1%
75	Slovenia	31.6%	30.5%
76	Romania	31.6%	29.9%
77	Ecuador	31.5%	29.5%
78	Aruba	31.4%	29.9%
79	Armenia	31.4%	30.0%
80	Guadeloupe	31.4%	30.1%
81	Barbados	31.3%	30.0%
82	Luxembourg	31.3%	30.6%
83	El Salvador	31.2%	29.2%
84	Switzerland	31.1%	30.6%
85	Gibraltar	31.0%	30.3%
86	Bulgaria	30.8%	29.6%
87	Réunion	30.8%	28.6%
88	Sri Lanka	30.7%	28.4%
89	Czechia	30.7%	28.9%
90	United Kingdom	30.6%	29.2%
91	Cook Islands	30.6%	23.5%
92	Denmark	30.5%	29.7%
93	Germany	30.5%	29.6%
94	Liechtenstein	30.3%	29.4%
95	New Zealand	30.2%	29.2%
96	France	30.2%	29.2%
97	Portugal	30.2%	30.2%
98	Mexico	30.0%	27.6%
99	Canada	29.9%	29.6%
100	Viet Nam	29.9%	27.5%
101	Peru	29.9%	28.0%
102	Jersey	29.7%	29.2%
103	Saint Kitts and Nevis	29.5%	28.0%
104	Belize	29.4%	26.8%
105	Malaysia	29.4%	28.1%
106	Georgia	29.2%	26.0%
107	Panama	29.2%	26.9%
108	Cayman Islands	29.0%	28.1%
109	Faroe Islands	29.0%	27.2%
110	Hungary	28.8%	27.5%
111	Bangladesh	28.8%	26.0%
112	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	28.7%	26.8%
113	Northern Mariana Islands	28.6%	24.6%
114	New Caledonia	28.5%	26.8%
115	Bahamas	28.4%	28.0%
116	Republic of Moldova	28.4%	24.5%
117	Morocco	28.1%	25.3%
118	India	28.0%	26.0%
119	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	27.9%	25.4%
120	Brunei Darussalam	27.9%	26.5%
121	Dominica	27.8%	26.1%
122	United States of America	27.7%	27.1%
123	Lebanon	27.6%	25.0%
124	Australia	27.4%	26.8%
125	United States Virgin Islands	27.4%	25.5%
126	Azerbaijan	27.2%	25.5%
127	Holy See	27.2%	24.7%
128	Algeria	26.6%	21.9%
129	Nicaragua	26.4%	23.6%
130	Nepal	26.4%	23.3%
131	Libya	26.4%	23.4%
132	Russian Federation	26.4%	24.6%
133	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	26.3%	23.9%
134	Saint Martin (French part)	26.2%	19.9%
135	Dominican Republic	25.9%	23.3%
136	American Samoa	25.7%	21.5%
137	Seychelles	25.4%	25.0%
138	Monaco	25.4%	24.3%
139	Guam	25.0%	21.6%
140	Philippines	25.0%	22.6%
141	Suriname	24.8%	22.6%
142	Greenland	24.4%	21.9%
143	Indonesia	23.9%	21.8%
144	Tokelau	23.9%	23.1%
145	Guatemala	23.8%	21.2%
146	Palau	23.6%	22.1%
147	Jordan	23.3%	20.6%
148	Paraguay	23.0%	20.4%
149	Lao People's Democratic Republic	22.5%	19.5%
150	Honduras	22.4%	19.9%
151	Mongolia	21.9%	17.5%
152	Western Sahara	21.8%	19.7%
153	Israel	21.7%	19.2%
154	Guyana	21.7%	18.6%
155	Myanmar	21.6%	19.6%
156	State of Palestine	21.3%	17.3%
157	Timor-Leste	21.2%	17.9%
158	Cambodia	21.1%	18.2%
159	Syrian Arab Republic	21.1%	21.2%
160	Turkmenistan	21.0%	17.1%
161	Kazakhstan	19.9%	16.6%
162	Egypt	19.6%	16.7%
163	Kyrgyzstan	19.5%	16.1%
164	Fiji	19.3%	16.6%
165	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	19.0%	17.0%
166	Tonga	18.9%	14.9%
167	Botswana	18.4%	16.1%
168	Marshall Islands	18.1%	11.9%
169	French Guiana	18.1%	15.8%
170	Niue	17.7%	16.7%
171	Tajikistan	17.5%	14.0%
172	Djibouti	17.1%	15.6%
173	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	17.1%	15.0%
174	South Africa	16.9%	15.4%
175	Iraq	16.8%	14.5%
176	Haiti	16.6%	14.8%
177	Eswatini	16.5%	14.2%
178	Uzbekistan	16.1%	13.3%
179	Uganda	16.0%	12.5%
180	Eritrea	15.8%	13.6%
181	Tuvalu	15.6%	11.2%
182	Namibia	15.6%	12.6%
183	Gambia	15.3%	12.5%
184	Solomon Islands	15.2%	12.9%
185	Rwanda	15.2%	12.6%
186	Sao Tome and Principe	15.0%	12.4%
187	Lesotho	15.0%	12.7%
188	Saudi Arabia	14.9%	13.5%
189	Senegal	14.9%	12.9%
190	Vanuatu	14.6%	11.9%
191	Ghana	14.5%	12.4%
192	Samoa	14.5%	10.8%
193	Ethiopia	14.3%	11.6%
194	Bahrain	14.3%	13.2%
195	Pakistan	14.2%	12.0%
196	Kiribati	13.9%	11.6%
197	Comoros	13.9%	11.2%
198	Oman	13.8%	11.6%
199	Kenya	13.7%	11.9%
200	Papua New Guinea	13.7%	11.9%
201	Malawi	13.6%	11.4%
202	Sierra Leone	13.4%	11.3%
203	Mayotte	13.4%	10.6%
204	Guinea-Bissau	13.2%	11.1%
205	Yemen	13.1%	10.1%
206	Gabon	13.1%	10.6%
207	Sudan	12.7%	10.6%
208	Zimbabwe	12.5%	10.1%
209	Burkina Faso	12.3%	10.2%
210	Mauritania	12.2%	9.6%
211	Guinea	12.0%	9.9%
212	Zambia	11.7%	9.7%
213	Afghanistan	11.5%	9.3%
214	Liberia	11.5%	9.7%
215	Madagascar	11.3%	9.6%
216	Cameroon	11.2%	9.0%
217	Equatorial Guinea	11.2%	8.9%
218	South Sudan	11.2%	10.5%
219	Nauru	11.1%	9.0%
220	Burundi	11.1%	8.9%
221	Congo	11.0%	9.1%
222	United Republic of Tanzania	10.6%	8.5%
223	Nigeria	10.5%	8.6%
224	United Arab Emirates	10.4%	9.3%
225	Benin	10.2%	8.4%
226	Niger	10.1%	7.8%
227	Togo	10.0%	8.5%
228	Mozambique	9.8%	7.7%
229	Kuwait	9.6%	8.9%
230	Angola	9.1%	7.1%
231	Côte d'Ivoire	8.8%	7.2%
232	Mali	8.8%	6.8%
233	Somalia	8.5%	6.7%
234	Democratic Republic of the Congo	8.4%	6.5%
235	Qatar	8.0%	6.0%
236	Central African Republic	8.0%	6.2%
237	Chad	7.8%	6.2%

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