List of countries by age structure

The following list of countries by age structure sorts the countries of the world according to the age distribution of their population. The population is divided into three groups:

Ages 0 to 14 years: children.
Ages 15 to 64 years: working population or adults.
Over the age of 65: elderly, senior citizens.

The age structure of a country has a strong impact on society and the economy. If the proportion of 0–14-year-olds is very high, there may be a so-called youth bulge. If, on the other hand, the proportion of over 65 is very high, the social systems of a country can be heavily burdened.

List

All numbers are for the year 2023. Source is The World Factbook.

Country	% of population by age^[1]
Country	0 to 14	15 to 64	65+
Afghanistan	39.80%	57.35%	2.85%
Albania	17.90%	67.53%	14.57%
Algeria	28.78%	64.29%	6.93%
American Samoa	25.91%	65.89%	8.20%
Andorra	12.31%	68.17%	19.52%
Angola	47.18%	50.49%	2.33%
Anguilla	21.00%	67.88%	11.12%
Antigua and Barbuda	21.97%	67.94%	10.09%
Argentina	18.51%	68.43%	13.06%
Armenia	17.98%	67.53%	14.49%
Aruba (Netherlands)	17.32%	66.11%	16.58%
Australia	18.53%	64.89%	16.59%
Austria	14.08%	65.11%	20.81%
Azerbaijan	21.78%	69.64%	8.58%
Bahamas	21.37%	68.80%	9.83%
Bahrain	18.14%	77.83%	4.03%
Bangladesh	25.38%	67.09%	7.53%
Barbados	16.78%	67.56%	15.66%
Belarus	15.83%	66.81%	17.36%
Belgium	17.03%	63.06%	19.91%
Belize	30.93%	64.15%	4.92%
Benin	45.37%	52.18%	2.45%
Bermuda	16.45%	61.66%	21.89%
Bhutan	23.49%	69.97%	6.54%
Bolivia	29.14%	64.03%	6.84%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	13.14%	69.00%	17.86%
Botswana	29.17%	64.88%	5.95%
Brazil	19.15%	69.84%	11.01%
British Virgin Islands	16.56%	71.87%	11.58%
Brunei	21.83%	71.07%	7.10%
Bulgaria	14.03%	65.17%	20.81%
Burkina Faso	42.19%	54.62%	3.19%
Burundi	42.67%	54.03%	3.30%
Cape Verde	26.68%	67.18%	6.14%
Cambodia	29.47%	65.39%	5.14%
Cameroon	41.69%	55.12%	3.19%
Canada	15.65%	63.48%	20.87%
Cayman Islands	17.48%	66.48%	16.04%
Central African Republic	38.84%	57.71%	3.45%
Chad	46.24%	51.27%	2.49%
Chile	19.04%	67.27%	13.69%
China	16.48%	69.40%	14.11%
Colombia	23.45%	66.66%	9.89%
Comoros	33.45%	62.00%	4.55%
Democratic Republic of the Congo	45.99%	51.52%	2.49%
Republic of the Congo	40.44%	56.15%	3.41%
Cook Islands	18.43%	66.23%	15.34%
Costa Rica	21.49%	68.59%	9.92%
Croatia	13.98%	63.39%	22.63%
Cuba	16.39%	66.81%	16.80%
Curaçao	19.30%	62.70%	18.00%
Cyprus	15.63%	70.36%	14.01%
Czech Republic	14.68%	64.18%	21.13%
Denmark	16.24%	63.13%	20.63%
Djibouti	28.65%	67.21%	4.15%
Dominica	20.82%	65.82%	13.36%
Dominican Republic	25.92%	67.09%	6.99%
Ecuador	24.49%	66.44%	9.07%
Egypt	34.37%	60.27%	5.36%
El Salvador	25.40%	66.39%	8.21%
Equatorial Guinea	36.05%	59.01%	4.94%
Eritrea	36.27%	59.73%	4.00%
Estonia	15.56%	62.27%	22.17%
Eswatini (Swaziland)	32.16%	63.88%	3.97%
Ethiopia	38.91%	57.55%	3.54%
Faroe Islands	19.90%	61.94%	18.16%
Fiji	25.17%	66.31%	8.52%
Finland	16.25%	60.50%	23.25%
France	18.04%	60.53%	21.42%
French Polynesia	20.62%	68.79%	10.59%
Gabon	35.04%	60.76%	4.20%
Gambia	38.86%	57.57%	3.57%
Gaza Strip	39.75%	57.34%	2.91%
Georgia	18.41%	63.65%	17.95%
Germany	13.75%	62.97%	23.28%
Ghana	37.72%	57.92%	4.36%
Gibraltar	19.99%	62.62%	17.39%
Greece	14.02%	62.66%	23.31%
Greenland	20.46%	67.66%	11.89%
Grenada	22.23%	65.51%	12.26%
Guam (US)	26.64%	62.85%	10.51%
Guatemala	31.98%	62.78%	5.24%
Guernsey	14.38%	64.48%	21.14%
Guinea	40.96%	55.05%	4.00%
Guinea-Bissau	42.51%	54.38%	3.11%
Guyana	23.65%	68.49%	7.86%
Haiti	29.68%	65.76%	4.56%
Honduras	27.92%	66.18%	5.91%
Hong Kong	13.04%	66.02%	20.94%
Hungary	14.24%	63.97%	21.79%
Iceland	19.98%	63.39%	16.63%
India	24.47%	68.72%	6.81%
Indonesia	24.62%	67.70%	7.68%
Iran	23.51%	69.82%	6.67%
Iraq	35.24%	61.17%	3.59%
Ireland	20.39%	65.04%	14.57%
Isle of Man	16.15%	62.09%	21.77%
Israel	25.46%	61.66%	12.88%
Italy	12.08%	64.61%	23.31%
Ivory Coast	36.65%	60.40%	2.95%
Jamaica	24.11%	65.80%	10.08%
Japan	12.29%	58.49%	29.22%
Jersey	16.89%	65.19%	17.91%
Jordan	31.42%	64.53%	4.05%
Kazakhstan	25.26%	65.29%	9.44%
Kenya	36.45%	60.26%	3.28%
Kiribati	27.06%	67.77%	5.17%
North Korea	20.24%	69.16%	10.60%
South Korea	11.3%	69.4%	19.3%
Kosovo	23.10%	68.75%	8.15%
Kuwait	23.32%	73.28%	3.40%
Kyrgyzstan	29.54%	63.86%	6.60%
Laos	30.63%	64.73%	4.65%
Latvia	14.92%	63.37%	21.71%
Lebanon	19.21%	71.69%	9.10%
Lesotho	32.40%	62.21%	5.39%
Liberia	42.69%	54.50%	2.82%
Libya	32.81%	62.80%	4.39%
Liechtenstein	15.27%	64.38%	20.35%
Lithuania	15.30%	63.11%	21.59%
Luxembourg	16.73%	67.38%	15.88%
Macau	14.42%	70.73%	14.86%
Madagascar	37.47%	58.72%	3.81%
Malawi	38.54%	57.64%	3.82%
Malaysia	22.46%	69.42%	8.12%
Maldives	22.25%	71.97%	5.78%
Mali	47.05%	49.88%	3.07%
Malta	14.53%	62.83%	22.65%
Marshall Islands	30.65%	63.83%	5.52%
Mauritania	36.11%	59.58%	4.31%
Mauritius	15.30%	71.35%	13.36%
Mexico	23.76%	68.22%	8.02%
Federated States of Micronesia	27.41%	67.13%	5.46%
Moldova	18.01%	66.37%	15.62%
Monaco	9.40%	54.42%	36.18%
Mongolia	26.16%	68.24%	5.60%
Montenegro	17.93%	64.65%	17.42%
Montserrat	15.92%	76.60%	7.48%
Morocco	26.01%	65.92%	8.06%
Mozambique	45.00%	52.10%	2.90%
Myanmar	24.89%	68.30%	6.80%
Namibia	34.38%	61.68%	3.94%
Nauru	30.13%	65.65%	4.22%
Nepal	26.32%	67.52%	6.16%
Netherlands	16.06%	63.08%	20.86%
New Caledonia	20.96%	68.45%	10.59%
New Zealand	19.15%	64.36%	16.49%
Nicaragua	24.16%	69.36%	6.48%
Niger	49.50%	47.80%	2.70%
Nigeria	40.69%	55.95%	3.36%
North Macedonia	16.06%	68.69%	15.25%
Northern Mariana Islands	22.61%	67.95%	9.43%
Norway	17.83%	64.00%	18.18%
Oman	29.88%	66.17%	3.95%
Pakistan	34.81%	60.41%	4.77%
Palau	17.49%	71.82%	10.69%
Panama	25.19%	64.87%	9.94%
Papua New Guinea	37.34%	58.75%	3.90%
Paraguay	22.40%	68.54%	9.06%
Peru	26.04%	65.94%	8.02%
Philippines	30.49%	64.06%	5.45%
Poland	14.53%	64.87%	20.60%
Portugal	12.85%	65.18%	21.96%
Puerto Rico (US)	12.84%	62.98%	24.18%
Qatar	13.08%	85.51%	1.41%
Romania	15.63%	62.13%	22.24%
Russia	17.26%	65.79%	16.85%
Rwanda	37.95%	59.10%	2.95%
Saint Barthelemy	14.10%	63.80%	22.11%
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	14.48%	66.87%	18.65%
Saint Kitts and Nevis	19.40%	68.54%	12.05%
Saint Lucia	18.23%	66.97%	14.80%
Saint Martin	24.90%	64.65%	10.45%
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	13.42%	61.98%	24.60%
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	19.05%	68.55%	12.40%
Samoa	27.33%	65.72%	6.94%
San Marino	14.34%	64.58%	21.08%
São Tomé and Príncipe	37.21%	59.64%	3.15%
Saudi Arabia	23.45%	72.36%	4.19%
Senegal	41.19%	55.46%	3.34%
Serbia	14.45%	65.81%	19.74%
Seychelles	17.95%	72.58%	9.47%
Sierra Leone	40.54%	56.89%	2.58%
Singapore	14.82%	71.49%	13.70%
Sint Maarten	18.52%	67.18%	14.29%
Slovakia	14.87%	66.49%	18.64%
Slovenia	14.55%	62.73%	22.72%
Solomon Islands	31.06%	63.82%	5.12%
Somalia	41.54%	55.77%	2.69%
South Africa	27.49%	66.07%	6.44%
South Sudan	41.93%	55.48%	2.59%
Spain	13.37%	66.13%	20.50%
Sri Lanka	21.95%	66.22%	11.83%
Sudan	40.47%	56.35%	3.19%
Suriname	22.77%	69.96%	7.27%
Sweden	17.26%	62.05%	20.69%
Switzerland	15.49%	65.13%	19.38%
Syria	33.27%	62.58%	4.15%
Taiwan	12.22%	69.72%	18.07%
Tajikistan	29.98%	65.84%	4.18%
Tanzania	41.50%	55.15%	3.35%
Thailand	16.00%	69.53%	14.47%
Timor-Leste	39.05%	56.61%	4.34%
Togo	38.98%	56.76%	4.26%
Tonga	29.92%	62.79%	7.29%
Trinidad and Tobago	19.04%	67.40%	13.56%
Tunisia	24.77%	65.26%	9.98%
Turkey	22.12%	68.58%	9.31%
Turkmenistan	24.63%	68.82%	6.55%
Turks and Caicos Islands	20.70%	73.24%	6.06%
Tuvalu	29.27%	63.30%	7.43%
Uganda	47.30%	50.31%	2.39%
Ukraine	15.30%	66.25%	18.45%
United Arab Emirates	16.23%	81.77%	2.00%
United Kingdom	17.31%	63.43%	19.26%
United States	17.75%	63.52%	18.73%
Uruguay	19.02%	65.55%	15.43%
Uzbekistan	22.48%	70.64%	6.88%
Vanuatu	31.73%	63.41%	4.86%
Venezuela	25.13%	65.98%	8.90%
Vietnam	23.44%	68.69%	7.87%
US Virgin Islands (US)	19.07%	60.04%	20.89%
Wallis and Futuna	19.98%	67.86%	12.15%
West Bank	34.07%	61.94%	3.99%
Yemen	35.14%	61.52%	3.34%
Zambia	42.49%	54.77%	2.74%
Zimbabwe	38.16%	57.32%	4.52%
World	24.60%	65.20%	10.20%