Countries with Oldest Population (2026)

Monaco has the oldest population in the world with 36.2% of its people aged 65 and over. Aging societies face challenges including rising healthcare costs, pension sustainability, and shrinking labor forces.

#1

Monaco

36.2%

#2

Japan

29.8%

#3

Puerto Rico

24.7%

Countries with Oldest Population - 216 countries ranked by % Over 65

Rank	Country	% Over 65	Population	Region
1	Monaco	36.2%	38,423	Europe
2	Japan	29.8%	123,210,000	Asia
3	Puerto Rico	24.7%	3,203,295	Americas
4	Italy	24.6%	58,927,633	Europe
5	Portugal	24.5%	10,749,635	Europe
6	Greece	23.9%	10,400,720	Europe
7	Finland	23.9%	5,650,325	Europe
8	Germany	23.2%	83,491,249	Europe
9	Croatia	23.2%	3,866,233	Europe
10	Isle of Man	23.1%	84,530	Europe
11	Serbia	22.7%	6,567,783	Europe
12	United States Virgin Islands	22.7%	87,146	Americas
13	Hong Kong	22.7%	7,527,500	Asia
14	San Marino	22.4%	34,132	Europe
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	22.2%	3,422,000	Europe
16	France	22.1%	66,351,959	Europe
17	Bulgaria	22.0%	6,437,360	Europe
18	Slovenia	21.8%	2,130,638	Europe
19	Latvia	21.7%	1,829,000	Europe
20	Bermuda	21.7%	64,055	Americas
21	Estonia	21.3%	1,369,995	Europe
22	Spain	21.1%	49,315,949	Europe
23	Hungary	21.0%	9,539,502	Europe
24	Denmark	20.9%	6,011,488	Europe
25	Czechia	20.9%	10,882,341	Europe
26	Sweden	20.8%	10,605,098	Europe
27	Liechtenstein	20.7%	40,900	Europe
28	Austria	20.6%	9,200,931	Europe
29	Belgium	20.6%	11,825,551	Europe
30	Netherlands	20.5%	18,100,436	Europe
31	Malta	20.2%	574,250	Europe
32	Lithuania	20.2%	2,894,886	Europe
33	Poland	20.1%	37,392,000	Europe
34	Switzerland	20.0%	9,082,848	Europe
35	Romania	20.0%	19,036,031	Europe
36	Canada	19.8%	41,651,653	Americas
37	United Kingdom	19.5%	69,281,437	Europe
38	South Korea	19.3%	51,159,889	Asia
39	Ukraine	19.0%	32,862,000	Europe
40	Norway	18.8%	5,606,944	Europe
41	Slovakia	18.5%	5,413,813	Europe
42	Saint Martin	18.4%	31,496	Americas
43	North Macedonia	18.0%	1,822,612	Europe
44	United States	17.9%	340,110,988	Americas
45	Montenegro	17.8%	623,327	Europe
46	Faroe Islands	17.7%	54,885	Europe
47	Australia	17.7%	27,536,874	Oceania
48	Belarus	17.7%	9,109,280	Europe
49	Gibraltar	17.6%	38,000	Europe
50	New Zealand	17.2%	5,324,700	Oceania
51	Russia	17.2%	146,028,325	Europe
52	Aruba	17.1%	107,566	Americas
53	Albania	16.9%	2,363,314	Europe
54	Curaçao	16.8%	156,115	Americas
55	Cuba	16.6%	9,748,007	Americas
56	Barbados	16.6%	267,800	Americas
57	Moldova	16.2%	2,749,076	Europe
58	Uruguay	16.1%	3,499,451	Americas
59	Andorra	15.9%	88,406	Europe
60	Ireland	15.9%	5,458,600	Europe
61	Georgia	15.6%	4,000,921	Asia
62	Iceland	15.6%	391,810	Europe
63	Luxembourg	15.5%	681,973	Europe
64	Thailand	15.4%	65,859,640	Asia
65	China	14.7%	1,408,280,000	Asia
66	Cyprus	14.6%	1,442,614	Europe
67	Macau	14.3%	685,900	Asia
68	Chile	14.1%	20,206,953	Americas
69	Sint Maarten	13.9%	41,349	Americas
70	Armenia	13.7%	3,076,200	Asia
71	Singapore	13.7%	6,110,200	Asia
72	Mauritius	13.5%	1,243,741	Africa
73	Dominica	13.0%	67,408	Americas
74	Guam	12.6%	153,836	Oceania
75	Israel	12.6%	10,134,800	Asia
76	Argentina	12.4%	46,735,004	Americas
77	North Korea	12.4%	25,950,000	Asia
78	Trinidad and Tobago	12.4%	1,367,764	Americas
79	Grenada	12.2%	109,021	Americas
80	Costa Rica	12.2%	5,309,625	Americas
81	Sri Lanka	12.1%	21,763,170	Asia
82	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11.9%	110,872	Americas
83	Bahamas	11.8%	398,165	Americas
84	Antigua and Barbuda	11.8%	103,603	Americas
85	New Caledonia	11.4%	264,596	Oceania
86	Palau	11.3%	16,733	Oceania
87	French Polynesia	11.3%	279,500	Oceania
88	Turks and Caicos Islands	11.3%	50,828	Americas
89	Saint Kitts and Nevis	11.2%	51,320	Americas
90	Brazil	11.1%	213,421,037	Americas
91	Greenland	10.8%	56,542	Americas
92	Turkey	10.3%	85,664,944	Asia
93	Lebanon	10.1%	5,490,000	Asia
94	Kosovo	10.1%	1,585,566	Europe
95	Colombia	9.8%	53,057,212	Americas
96	Northern Mariana Islands	9.8%	47,329	Oceania
97	Venezuela	9.7%	28,517,000	Americas
98	Saint Lucia	9.6%	184,100	Americas
99	British Virgin Islands	9.6%	39,471	Americas
100	Tunisia	9.5%	11,972,169	Africa
101	Panama	9.3%	4,064,780	Americas
102	Peru	9.2%	34,350,244	Americas
103	Vietnam	9.1%	101,343,800	Asia
104	Cayman Islands	9.0%	84,738	Americas
105	Kazakhstan	8.7%	20,426,568	Asia
106	Azerbaijan	8.6%	10,241,722	Asia
107	Seychelles	8.5%	122,729	Africa
108	Ecuador	8.3%	18,103,660	Americas
109	Mexico	8.3%	130,575,786	Americas
110	Iran	8.2%	85,961,000	Asia
111	Jamaica	8.2%	2,825,544	Americas
112	El Salvador	8.2%	6,029,976	Americas
113	Morocco	8.1%	36,828,330	Africa
114	American Samoa	8.0%	49,710	Oceania
115	Suriname	7.9%	616,500	Americas
116	Dominican Republic	7.9%	10,771,504	Americas
117	Malaysia	7.7%	34,231,700	Asia
118	Myanmar	7.3%	51,316,756	Asia
119	Indonesia	7.3%	284,438,782	Asia
120	India	7.2%	1,417,492,000	Asia
121	Brunei	6.9%	455,500	Asia
122	Cape Verde	6.9%	491,233	Africa
123	Guyana	6.7%	772,975	Americas
124	Tonga	6.7%	100,179	Oceania
125	South Africa	6.7%	63,100,945	Africa
126	Tuvalu	6.7%	10,643	Oceania
127	Algeria	6.6%	47,400,000	Africa
128	Paraguay	6.5%	6,109,644	Americas
129	Bangladesh	6.5%	169,828,911	Asia
130	Nepal	6.5%	29,911,840	Asia
131	Fiji	6.5%	900,869	Oceania
132	Bhutan	6.5%	784,043	Asia
133	Cambodia	6.2%	17,577,760	Asia
134	Micronesia	6.0%	105,564	Oceania
135	Samoa	5.9%	205,557	Oceania
136	Uzbekistan	5.9%	37,859,698	Asia
137	Kyrgyzstan	5.7%	7,281,800	Asia
138	Bolivia	5.6%	11,365,333	Americas
139	Nicaragua	5.5%	6,803,886	Americas
140	Philippines	5.5%	114,123,600	Asia
141	Timor-Leste	5.3%	1,391,221	Asia
142	Mongolia	5.1%	3,544,835	Asia
143	Egypt	5.1%	107,271,260	Africa
144	Libya	5.0%	7,459,000	Africa
145	Belize	5.0%	417,634	Americas
146	Guatemala	4.8%	18,079,810	Americas
147	Djibouti	4.8%	1,066,809	Africa
148	Syria	4.7%	25,620,000	Asia
149	Haiti	4.7%	11,867,032	Americas
150	Laos	4.7%	7,647,000	Asia
151	Maldives	4.6%	515,132	Asia
152	Marshall Islands	4.6%	42,418	Oceania
153	Turkmenistan	4.5%	7,057,841	Asia
154	Jordan	4.5%	11,734,000	Asia
155	Comoros	4.5%	919,901	Africa
156	Honduras	4.4%	9,892,632	Americas
157	Vanuatu	4.3%	321,409	Oceania
158	Pakistan	4.3%	241,499,431	Asia
159	Eswatini	4.3%	1,235,549	Africa
160	Kiribati	4.2%	120,740	Oceania
161	Eritrea	4.2%	3,607,000	Africa
162	Gabon	4.1%	2,469,296	Africa
163	Botswana	4.0%	2,359,609	Africa
164	Rwanda	3.9%	14,104,969	Africa
165	São Tomé and Príncipe	3.9%	209,607	Africa
166	Lesotho	3.9%	2,116,427	Africa
167	Tajikistan	3.9%	10,499,000	Asia
168	Bahrain	3.9%	1,594,654	Asia
169	Palestine	3.8%	5,483,450	Asia
170	Ghana	3.7%	33,742,380	Africa
171	Equatorial Guinea	3.7%	1,668,768	Africa
172	Namibia	3.7%	3,022,401	Africa
173	Solomon Islands	3.6%	750,325	Oceania
174	Senegal	3.6%	18,593,258	Africa
175	Zimbabwe	3.6%	17,073,087	Africa
176	Guinea	3.5%	14,363,931	Africa
177	Papua New Guinea	3.5%	11,781,559	Oceania
178	Iraq	3.4%	46,118,793	Asia
179	Madagascar	3.4%	31,727,042	Africa
180	Sudan	3.3%	51,662,000	Africa
181	Liberia	3.3%	5,248,621	Africa
182	Sierra Leone	3.2%	9,077,691	Africa
183	Ethiopia	3.2%	111,652,998	Africa
184	Mauritania	3.2%	4,927,532	Africa
185	Togo	3.2%	8,095,498	Africa
186	Guinea-Bissau	3.2%	1,781,308	Africa
187	Benin	3.1%	13,224,860	Africa
188	Kuwait	3.1%	4,881,254	Asia
189	DR Congo	3.1%	112,832,000	Africa
190	Gambia	3.1%	2,422,712	Africa
191	Nigeria	3.0%	223,800,000	Africa
192	Tanzania	3.0%	68,153,004	Africa
193	South Sudan	3.0%	15,786,898	Africa
194	Republic of the Congo	3.0%	6,142,180	Africa
195	Kenya	3.0%	53,330,978	Africa
196	Saudi Arabia	3.0%	35,300,280	Asia
197	Angola	2.9%	36,170,961	Africa
198	Nauru	2.9%	11,680	Oceania
199	Cameroon	2.8%	29,442,327	Africa
200	Mozambique	2.8%	34,090,466	Africa
201	Burkina Faso	2.6%	24,070,553	Africa
202	Oman	2.6%	5,343,630	Asia
203	Ivory Coast	2.6%	31,719,275	Africa
204	Niger	2.6%	26,312,034	Africa
205	Malawi	2.6%	20,734,262	Africa
206	Somalia	2.6%	19,655,000	Africa
207	Burundi	2.5%	12,332,788	Africa
208	Yemen	2.5%	32,684,503	Asia
209	Afghanistan	2.4%	43,844,000	Asia
210	Mali	2.4%	22,395,489	Africa
211	Uganda	2.2%	45,905,417	Africa
212	Central African Republic	2.1%	6,470,307	Africa
213	Chad	2.1%	19,340,757	Africa
214	Zambia	1.9%	19,693,423	Africa
215	United Arab Emirates	1.8%	11,294,243	Asia
216	Qatar	1.7%	3,173,024	Asia