Share aged 65+ by country, 2097

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

◀▶2097

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2087
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	59.3%	60.1%
2	Puerto Rico	52.0%	54.4%
3	China, Macao SAR	47.7%	48.9%
4	China	45.9%	47.5%
5	Republic of Korea	44.6%	47.3%
6	Saint Barthélemy	44.0%	44.3%
7	Albania	42.5%	43.5%
8	Andorra	42.3%	42.8%
9	China, Taiwan Province of China	41.6%	43.5%
10	Ukraine	41.4%	42.3%
11	Chile	41.3%	41.9%
12	French Polynesia	41.2%	41.0%
13	Costa Rica	39.9%	40.2%
14	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	39.8%	42.5%
15	Singapore	39.6%	41.3%
16	Anguilla	39.2%	39.0%
17	Malta	39.2%	39.7%
18	Mauritius	39.0%	39.2%
19	Lithuania	39.0%	39.1%
20	Bermuda	38.9%	38.4%
21	Poland	38.8%	38.7%
22	Cuba	37.9%	37.7%
23	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	37.9%	37.8%
24	North Macedonia	37.5%	37.0%
25	Italy	37.2%	37.5%
26	Türkiye	37.2%	36.4%
27	Bosnia and Herzegovina	36.9%	36.8%
28	Uruguay	36.8%	37.0%
29	Japan	36.8%	37.2%
30	Wallis and Futuna Islands	36.4%	38.3%
31	Cabo Verde	36.3%	36.9%
32	Jamaica	36.2%	35.9%
33	Spain	36.1%	36.1%
34	Latvia	36.1%	36.2%
35	Belarus	36.0%	36.7%
36	Grenada	35.6%	35.0%
37	Greece	35.5%	35.5%
38	Isle of Man	35.5%	35.1%
39	Montenegro	35.5%	33.9%
40	Croatia	35.4%	35.0%
41	Iceland	35.2%	34.2%
42	Curaçao	35.2%	35.9%
43	Estonia	35.1%	35.2%
44	Thailand	35.0%	35.6%
45	Colombia	34.9%	34.0%
46	Antigua and Barbuda	34.8%	33.9%
47	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	34.8%	33.9%
48	Slovakia	34.3%	33.5%
49	Serbia	34.3%	33.3%
50	Turks and Caicos Islands	34.0%	32.4%
51	British Virgin Islands	34.0%	34.5%
52	Argentina	33.9%	34.1%
53	Cyprus	33.9%	32.8%
54	Finland	33.8%	33.8%
55	San Marino	33.7%	34.0%
56	Tunisia	33.2%	32.1%
57	Austria	33.1%	32.7%
58	Guernsey	33.1%	33.1%
59	Ireland	33.0%	32.5%
60	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	33.0%	31.8%
61	Saint Helena	33.0%	33.7%
62	Brazil	33.0%	32.2%
63	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	32.8%	31.2%
64	Saint Lucia	32.8%	31.9%
65	Norway	32.8%	32.6%
66	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	32.8%	31.1%
67	Martinique	32.7%	31.5%
68	Guadeloupe	32.5%	31.2%
69	Trinidad and Tobago	32.5%	31.5%
70	Ecuador	32.4%	31.3%
71	Romania	32.4%	31.3%
72	Barbados	32.3%	31.0%
73	Armenia	32.2%	31.1%
74	El Salvador	32.2%	30.9%
75	Belgium	32.2%	32.0%
76	Luxembourg	32.2%	31.1%
77	Réunion	32.2%	30.4%
78	Gibraltar	32.0%	30.8%
79	Sweden	32.0%	31.9%
80	Sri Lanka	32.0%	30.4%
81	Slovenia	32.0%	31.5%
82	Bhutan	32.0%	31.9%
83	Netherlands	31.9%	31.5%
84	Bulgaria	31.9%	30.4%
85	Switzerland	31.8%	31.0%
86	Montserrat	31.8%	31.7%
87	Maldives	31.7%	34.5%
88	Aruba	31.6%	31.4%
89	Belize	31.4%	28.9%
90	Peru	31.2%	29.6%
91	Mexico	31.2%	29.6%
92	Liechtenstein	31.2%	30.0%
93	Bangladesh	31.1%	28.1%
94	United Kingdom	31.0%	30.4%
95	Denmark	30.9%	30.5%
96	Germany	30.9%	30.4%
97	Czechia	30.8%	30.6%
98	New Zealand	30.8%	30.0%
99	Viet Nam	30.8%	29.6%
100	Portugal	30.7%	30.1%
101	Saint Kitts and Nevis	30.5%	29.3%
102	France	30.5%	30.1%
103	Panama	30.4%	28.9%
104	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	30.3%	28.3%
105	Cayman Islands	30.2%	28.7%
106	Faroe Islands	30.2%	28.8%
107	Canada	30.0%	29.9%
108	Cook Islands	30.0%	30.1%
109	Jersey	29.9%	29.7%
110	Georgia	29.7%	29.0%
111	Malaysia	29.7%	29.4%
112	New Caledonia	29.6%	28.1%
113	Morocco	29.6%	27.6%
114	Hungary	29.5%	28.6%
115	Holy See	29.3%	26.4%
116	India	29.2%	27.7%
117	Northern Mariana Islands	29.1%	28.0%
118	United States Virgin Islands	29.0%	27.0%
119	Brunei Darussalam	28.8%	27.6%
120	Lebanon	28.7%	27.3%
121	Bahamas	28.6%	28.4%
122	Dominica	28.5%	27.5%
123	Republic of Moldova	28.4%	28.2%
124	Algeria	28.3%	25.9%
125	Nicaragua	28.2%	25.9%
126	Nepal	28.2%	25.8%
127	United States of America	28.1%	27.6%
128	Australia	28.0%	27.3%
129	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	28.0%	27.8%
130	Saint Martin (French part)	27.7%	25.0%
131	Azerbaijan	27.5%	27.1%
132	Libya	27.5%	25.9%
133	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	27.4%	26.1%
134	Dominican Republic	27.3%	25.4%
135	Guam	26.8%	24.4%
136	Seychelles	26.8%	25.1%
137	Monaco	26.5%	25.2%
138	Russian Federation	26.5%	26.3%
139	Suriname	26.4%	24.4%
140	Tokelau	25.8%	23.5%
141	Philippines	25.6%	24.9%
142	American Samoa	25.6%	25.5%
143	Greenland	25.5%	23.8%
144	Guatemala	25.3%	23.5%
145	Indonesia	25.2%	23.6%
146	Paraguay	24.8%	22.5%
147	Jordan	24.7%	22.9%
148	Lao People's Democratic Republic	24.5%	21.9%
149	Honduras	24.4%	21.9%
150	Palau	23.9%	23.4%
151	Syrian Arab Republic	23.6%	20.9%
152	State of Palestine	23.6%	20.6%
153	Guyana	23.4%	21.2%
154	Western Sahara	23.3%	21.4%
155	Israel	23.1%	21.2%
156	Mongolia	23.1%	21.4%
157	Myanmar	23.0%	21.2%
158	Cambodia	22.9%	20.6%
159	Turkmenistan	22.6%	20.3%
160	Timor-Leste	22.6%	20.8%
161	Kazakhstan	21.5%	19.3%
162	Egypt	21.2%	19.2%
163	Kyrgyzstan	21.2%	19.0%
164	Fiji	20.8%	18.9%
165	Tonga	20.6%	18.4%
166	Botswana	20.5%	17.8%
167	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	20.5%	18.6%
168	French Guiana	20.3%	17.6%
169	Tajikistan	19.3%	16.9%
170	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	19.0%	16.7%
171	Uganda	18.9%	15.3%
172	Niue	18.8%	17.5%
173	Uzbekistan	18.6%	15.3%
174	Iraq	18.5%	16.4%
175	Djibouti	18.5%	16.9%
176	South Africa	18.2%	16.5%
177	Eswatini	17.9%	16.0%
178	Eritrea	17.9%	15.4%
179	Haiti	17.8%	16.3%
180	Marshall Islands	17.6%	17.6%
181	Gambia	17.3%	14.8%
182	Rwanda	17.2%	14.7%
183	Sao Tome and Principe	17.1%	14.5%
184	Namibia	17.1%	15.1%
185	Solomon Islands	17.0%	14.8%
186	Senegal	16.7%	14.4%
187	Ethiopia	16.5%	13.7%
188	Tuvalu	16.5%	14.8%
189	Vanuatu	16.3%	14.1%
190	Lesotho	16.3%	14.7%
191	Saudi Arabia	16.2%	14.6%
192	Ghana	16.1%	14.2%
193	Pakistan	15.8%	13.8%
194	Comoros	15.7%	13.3%
195	Samoa	15.7%	14.1%
196	Mayotte	15.7%	12.8%
197	Yemen	15.5%	12.4%
198	Malawi	15.5%	13.2%
199	Oman	15.4%	13.6%
200	Kenya	15.4%	13.4%
201	Kiribati	15.1%	13.4%
202	Papua New Guinea	15.0%	13.4%
203	Sierra Leone	14.9%	13.0%
204	Bahrain	14.9%	14.2%
205	Gabon	14.8%	12.7%
206	Guinea-Bissau	14.8%	12.8%
207	Sudan	14.6%	12.2%
208	Mauritania	14.4%	11.7%
209	Zimbabwe	14.3%	12.0%
210	Burkina Faso	13.6%	12.0%
211	Guinea	13.5%	11.5%
212	Afghanistan	13.4%	11.0%
213	Zambia	13.4%	11.3%
214	Cameroon	13.0%	10.8%
215	Equatorial Guinea	13.0%	10.8%
216	Liberia	12.8%	11.1%
217	Madagascar	12.7%	10.9%
218	Congo	12.5%	10.7%
219	Burundi	12.4%	10.8%
220	United Republic of Tanzania	12.3%	10.1%
221	South Sudan	12.2%	11.1%
222	Niger	12.0%	9.6%
223	Nigeria	11.7%	10.1%
224	Nauru	11.7%	10.8%
225	Mozambique	11.7%	9.4%
226	Benin	11.5%	9.9%
227	Togo	11.2%	9.7%
228	United Arab Emirates	11.0%	10.3%
229	Angola	10.8%	8.7%
230	Mali	10.5%	8.4%
231	Central African Republic	10.3%	7.5%
232	Democratic Republic of the Congo	10.2%	8.0%
233	Somalia	10.1%	8.1%
234	Kuwait	9.9%	9.5%
235	Côte d'Ivoire	9.7%	8.6%
236	Qatar	9.4%	7.6%
237	Chad	9.4%	7.4%

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