Population aged 65 and over by country, 2025
People aged 65 or over as a share of the total population on 1 January.
40 places ranked for 2025. Highest: Monaco (27.5%). Lowest: Azerbaijan (9.9%). The median is 20.8%.
Highest 10
Lowest 10
- 40. Azerbaijan 9.9%
- 39. Türkiye 10.6%
- 38. Luxembourg 15.2%
- 37. Ireland 15.7%
- 36. Iceland 15.9%
- 35. Georgia 16.6%
- 34. Montenegro 17.2%
- 33. Moldova 18.2%
- 32. Cyprus 18.3%
- 31. Malta 18.4%
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Source: Eurostat.
In short
- Among the 40 countries with a value for 2025, the highest is Monaco (27.5%) and the lowest Azerbaijan (9.9%).
- Half of the countries are above 20.8% and half below.
- From 2024 to 2025 the value rose in 38 countries and fell in 0.
- The figure for the European Union was 22.0% in 2025, against 20.6% in 2020 (+1.4 percentage points). The source marks a break in the series during this period, so part of the change may come from a change in method.
Full ranking
| # | Country | Value | Period | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monaco | 27.5% | 2025 | |
| 2 | Italy | 24.7% | 2025 | |
| 3 | Portugal | 24.3% | 2025 | |
| 4 | Bulgaria | 24.0% | 2025 | |
| 5 | Greece | 23.7% | 2025 | |
| 6 | Finland | 23.6% | 2025 | |
| 7 | Croatia | 23.3% | 2025 | |
| 8 | Germany | 22.7% | 2025 | |
| 9 | Serbia | 22.7% | 2025 | |
| 10 | Slovenia | 22.1% | 2025 | |
| 11 | France | 21.9%p (provisional) | 2025 | |
| 12 | Latvia | 21.9% | 2025 | |
| 13 | Albania | 21.2% | 2025 | |
| 14 | Poland | 21.0%ep (estimated, provisional) | 2025 | |
| 15 | Denmark | 20.9% | 2025 | |
| 16 | Estonia | 20.9% | 2025 | |
| 17 | Hungary | 20.9% | 2025 | |
| 18 | Lithuania | 20.9% | 2025 | |
| 19 | Netherlands | 20.8% | 2025 | |
| 20 | Sweden | 20.8% | 2025 | |
| 21 | Czechia | 20.7% | 2025 | |
| 22 | Liechtenstein | 20.7% | 2025 | |
| 23 | Spain | 20.7% | 2025 | |
| 24 | Romania | 20.3%e (estimated) | 2025 | |
| 25 | Austria | 20.2% | 2025 | |
| 26 | Belgium | 20.2% | 2025 | |
| 27 | Switzerland | 19.5% | 2025 | |
| 28 | Norway | 19.0% | 2025 | |
| 29 | Slovakia | 18.8% | 2025 | |
| 30 | North Macedonia | 18.6% | 2025 | |
| 31 | Malta | 18.4% | 2025 | |
| 32 | Cyprus | 18.3% | 2025 | |
| 33 | Moldova | 18.2% | 2025 | |
| 34 | Montenegro | 17.2% | 2025 | |
| 35 | Georgia | 16.6% | 2025 | |
| 36 | Iceland | 15.9% | 2025 | |
| 37 | Ireland | 15.7% | 2025 | |
| 38 | Luxembourg | 15.2% | 2025 | |
| 39 | Türkiye | 10.6% | 2025 | |
| 40 | Azerbaijan | 9.9% | 2025 |
Places are ordered from the highest to the lowest value. Group medians on this site are the middle value of the members with data for the same year; they are not official aggregates.
How this ranking works
Every country is ranked on its value for 2025, the latest period that most countries have, so all values are for the same point in time. Countries without a value for 2025 are left out. Groups and aggregates such as the European Union are not ranked. Values are as published by Eurostat; the ranking is a plain ordering from the highest to the lowest value and says nothing about whether a high value is good or bad.
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