Share aged 65+ by country, 2098

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

◀▶2098

#	Country / area	Share aged 65+	2088
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	59.3%	60.1%
2	Puerto Rico	51.7%	54.2%
3	China, Macao SAR	47.5%	48.8%
4	China	45.8%	47.4%
5	Republic of Korea	44.4%	47.0%
6	Saint Barthélemy	43.9%	45.0%
7	Albania	42.4%	43.4%
8	Andorra	42.2%	42.7%
9	China, Taiwan Province of China	41.4%	43.4%
10	Ukraine	41.3%	42.1%
11	Chile	41.3%	41.9%
12	French Polynesia	41.3%	41.1%
13	Costa Rica	39.9%	40.2%
14	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	39.9%	42.2%
15	Singapore	39.6%	41.0%
16	Anguilla	39.2%	39.1%
17	Malta	39.2%	39.6%
18	Mauritius	39.1%	39.2%
19	Lithuania	39.0%	39.1%
20	Bermuda	38.9%	38.5%
21	Poland	38.8%	38.7%
22	Cuba	38.0%	37.7%
23	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	38.0%	37.8%
24	North Macedonia	37.5%	37.2%
25	Türkiye	37.3%	36.5%
26	Italy	37.2%	37.5%
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	36.3%	38.1%
31	Cabo Verde	36.3%	36.8%
32	Jamaica	36.3%	36.0%
33	Spain	36.1%	36.1%
34	Latvia	36.1%	36.3%
35	Belarus	35.9%	36.8%
36	Grenada	35.7%	35.1%
37	Montenegro	35.6%	34.2%
38	Greece	35.5%	35.5%
39	Croatia	35.5%	35.1%
40	Isle of Man	35.5%	35.1%
41	Iceland	35.3%	34.3%
42	Curaçao	35.2%	35.7%
43	Estonia	35.1%	35.2%
44	Colombia	35.0%	34.1%
45	Thailand	35.0%	35.5%
46	Antigua and Barbuda	34.9%	34.0%
47	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	34.8%	34.0%
48	Serbia	34.4%	33.4%
49	Slovakia	34.3%	33.6%
50	Turks and Caicos Islands	34.2%	32.6%
51	Cyprus	34.0%	32.9%
52	British Virgin Islands	34.0%	34.5%
53	Argentina	33.9%	34.0%
54	Finland	33.8%	33.8%
55	San Marino	33.7%	34.0%
56	Tunisia	33.3%	32.3%
57	Austria	33.2%	32.8%
58	Ireland	33.1%	32.6%
59	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	33.1%	32.0%
60	Guernsey	33.1%	33.1%
61	Brazil	33.1%	32.3%
62	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	33.0%	31.4%
63	Saint Helena	32.9%	33.7%
64	Saint Lucia	32.9%	32.0%
65	Norway	32.9%	32.7%
66	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	32.8%	31.4%
67	Martinique	32.7%	31.4%
68	Ecuador	32.5%	31.4%
69	Guadeloupe	32.5%	31.1%
70	Trinidad and Tobago	32.5%	31.7%
71	Romania	32.5%	31.4%
72	El Salvador	32.4%	31.1%
73	Barbados	32.4%	31.1%
74	Armenia	32.3%	31.2%
75	Luxembourg	32.3%	31.2%
76	Réunion	32.3%	30.5%
77	Sri Lanka	32.2%	30.6%
78	Belgium	32.2%	32.1%
79	Gibraltar	32.1%	30.9%
80	Slovenia	32.1%	31.5%
81	Bhutan	32.1%	31.9%
82	Netherlands	32.0%	31.6%
83	Sweden	32.0%	31.9%
84	Bulgaria	32.0%	30.6%
85	Switzerland	31.8%	31.1%
86	Montserrat	31.8%	31.9%
87	Belize	31.7%	29.1%
88	Aruba	31.6%	31.4%
89	Maldives	31.5%	34.2%
90	Bangladesh	31.3%	28.5%
91	Peru	31.3%	29.8%
92	Mexico	31.3%	29.8%
93	Liechtenstein	31.3%	30.1%
94	United Kingdom	31.1%	30.5%
95	Denmark	31.0%	30.5%
96	Germany	31.0%	30.5%
97	Czechia	30.9%	30.7%
98	Viet Nam	30.9%	29.8%
99	New Zealand	30.8%	30.1%
100	Portugal	30.7%	30.2%
101	Saint Kitts and Nevis	30.6%	29.4%
102	Panama	30.6%	29.0%
103	France	30.6%	30.2%
104	Cayman Islands	30.4%	28.8%
105	Faroe Islands	30.4%	28.9%
106	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	30.4%	28.5%
107	Canada	30.1%	29.9%
108	Cook Islands	30.0%	30.4%
109	Jersey	29.9%	29.7%
110	Morocco	29.8%	27.9%
111	Georgia	29.7%	29.1%
112	New Caledonia	29.7%	28.3%
113	Holy See	29.7%	26.8%
114	Malaysia	29.7%	29.4%
115	Hungary	29.5%	28.7%
116	India	29.4%	27.8%
117	Northern Mariana Islands	29.2%	28.3%
118	United States Virgin Islands	29.1%	27.2%
119	Brunei Darussalam	28.9%	27.8%
120	Lebanon	28.8%	27.4%
121	Bahamas	28.7%	28.4%
122	Dominica	28.6%	27.6%
123	Algeria	28.5%	26.3%
124	Nicaragua	28.4%	26.1%
125	Nepal	28.4%	26.1%
126	Republic of Moldova	28.4%	28.3%
127	United States of America	28.1%	27.7%
128	Australia	28.0%	27.3%
129	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	28.0%	27.9%
130	Azerbaijan	27.6%	27.2%
131	Saint Martin (French part)	27.6%	25.4%
132	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	27.6%	26.2%
133	Libya	27.6%	26.2%
134	Dominican Republic	27.4%	25.6%
135	Guam	27.0%	24.7%
136	Seychelles	27.0%	25.2%
137	Suriname	26.6%	24.6%
138	Monaco	26.6%	25.3%
139	Russian Federation	26.5%	26.3%
140	Tokelau	26.0%	23.6%
141	Philippines	25.7%	24.9%
142	Greenland	25.6%	24.1%
143	American Samoa	25.6%	25.6%
144	Guatemala	25.5%	23.7%
145	Indonesia	25.4%	23.8%
146	Paraguay	25.0%	22.8%
147	Jordan	24.9%	23.1%
148	Lao People's Democratic Republic	24.7%	22.2%
149	Honduras	24.6%	22.1%
150	Syrian Arab Republic	23.9%	20.9%
151	Palau	23.9%	23.5%
152	State of Palestine	23.9%	21.0%
153	Guyana	23.6%	21.4%
154	Western Sahara	23.4%	21.6%
155	Israel	23.3%	21.5%
156	Myanmar	23.2%	21.4%
157	Mongolia	23.2%	21.7%
158	Cambodia	23.0%	20.8%
159	Timor-Leste	22.8%	21.0%
160	Turkmenistan	22.7%	20.7%
161	Kazakhstan	21.7%	19.6%
162	Egypt	21.5%	19.4%
163	Kyrgyzstan	21.4%	19.3%
164	Fiji	21.0%	19.1%
165	Tonga	20.8%	18.7%
166	Botswana	20.7%	18.1%
167	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	20.7%	18.8%
168	French Guiana	20.5%	17.7%
169	Tajikistan	19.5%	17.2%
170	Uganda	19.3%	15.6%
171	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	19.2%	16.9%
172	Niue	19.1%	17.7%
173	Uzbekistan	18.8%	15.7%
174	Iraq	18.7%	16.6%
175	Djibouti	18.7%	17.0%
176	South Africa	18.3%	16.7%
177	Eritrea	18.2%	15.6%
178	Eswatini	18.1%	16.3%
179	Haiti	18.0%	16.4%
180	Marshall Islands	17.6%	17.9%
181	Gambia	17.5%	15.0%
182	Sao Tome and Principe	17.4%	14.7%
183	Rwanda	17.4%	15.0%
184	Solomon Islands	17.3%	15.0%
185	Namibia	17.3%	15.4%
186	Senegal	17.0%	14.6%
187	Ethiopia	16.8%	14.0%
188	Tuvalu	16.5%	15.2%
189	Vanuatu	16.5%	14.4%
190	Lesotho	16.5%	14.8%
191	Ghana	16.3%	14.4%
192	Saudi Arabia	16.3%	14.7%
193	Comoros	16.0%	13.6%
194	Pakistan	16.0%	14.0%
195	Mayotte	16.0%	13.1%
196	Samoa	15.9%	14.3%
197	Yemen	15.8%	12.7%
198	Malawi	15.8%	13.4%
199	Kenya	15.7%	13.5%
200	Oman	15.5%	13.8%
201	Kiribati	15.3%	13.7%
202	Papua New Guinea	15.2%	13.6%
203	Gabon	15.0%	12.9%
204	Sierra Leone	15.0%	13.2%
205	Bahrain	15.0%	14.2%
206	Guinea-Bissau	14.9%	13.0%
207	Sudan	14.8%	12.5%
208	Zimbabwe	14.6%	12.3%
209	Mauritania	14.6%	11.9%
210	Guinea	13.7%	11.7%
211	Zambia	13.7%	11.5%
212	Burkina Faso	13.7%	12.2%
213	Afghanistan	13.6%	11.3%
214	Equatorial Guinea	13.3%	11.0%
215	Cameroon	13.2%	11.0%
216	Liberia	13.0%	11.3%
217	Madagascar	12.9%	11.1%
218	Congo	12.7%	10.9%
219	Burundi	12.6%	10.9%
220	United Republic of Tanzania	12.5%	10.4%
221	Niger	12.3%	9.8%
222	South Sudan	12.3%	11.2%
223	Mozambique	12.0%	9.6%
224	Nigeria	11.9%	10.3%
225	Nauru	11.8%	11.0%
226	Benin	11.6%	10.1%
227	Togo	11.4%	9.9%
228	United Arab Emirates	11.1%	10.4%
229	Angola	11.0%	8.9%
230	Mali	10.7%	8.6%
231	Central African Republic	10.6%	7.7%
232	Democratic Republic of the Congo	10.4%	8.2%
233	Somalia	10.3%	8.3%
234	Kuwait	9.9%	9.5%
235	Côte d'Ivoire	9.8%	8.7%
236	Qatar	9.6%	7.8%
237	Chad	9.6%	7.6%

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