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Median age by country

The age that divides the population into two halves of equal size — half are younger and half are older.

Countries reporting
236
Highest
59.62 years
Vatican
Lowest
14.32 years
Central African Republic
Median
32.12 years
Years covered
74
1950–2023
Data points
17,464

What the numbers show

Median age is currently reported for 236 countries. The highest value is 59.62 years in Vatican; the lowest is 14.32 years in Central African Republic.

The median across all reporting countries is 32.12 years, and the mean is 31.49 years.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4.

Over the past decade 225 countries rose and 10 fell. The largest increase was in Saint Martin (French part) (up 25.7%), and the largest decrease in Central African Republic (down 4.2%).

Median age: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Vatican 59.62 years 2023 down 2.9% rising
2 Monaco 54.36 years 2023 up 6.6% rising
3 Saint Helena 50.45 years 2023 up 11.2% rising
4 Japan 48.96 years 2023 up 8.6% rising
5 Martinique 48.79 years 2023 up 18.1% rising
6 Italy 47.46 years 2023 up 8.9% rising
7 San Marino 47.39 years 2023 up 11.0% rising
8 Guadeloupe 46.57 years 2023 up 19.8% rising
9 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 46.4 years 2023 up 9.7% rising
10 Portugal 46.2 years 2023 up 10.4% rising
11 Hong Kong 46.16 years 2023 up 12.6% rising
12 Greece 45.75 years 2023 up 9.7% rising
13 Isle of Man 45.68 years 2023 up 7.5% rising
14 Puerto Rico 45.31 years 2023 up 18.4% rising
15 Germany 45.15 years 2023 up 1.5% rising
16 Bermuda 45.14 years 2023 up 8.7% rising
17 Bosnia and Herzegovina 44.91 years 2023 up 11.9% rising
18 Spain 44.9 years 2023 up 10.5% rising
19 Croatia 44.76 years 2023 up 7.3% rising
20 United States Virgin Islands 44.67 years 2023 up 12.2% rising
21 South Korea 44.49 years 2023 up 15.4% rising
22 Bulgaria 44.31 years 2023 up 5.4% rising
23 Liechtenstein 44.2 years 2023 up 6.9% rising
24 Guernsey 43.98 years 2023 up 5.1% rising
25 Slovenia 43.89 years 2023 up 6.2% rising
26 Serbia 43.87 years 2023 up 5.0% rising
27 Taiwan 43.54 years 2023 up 14.6% rising
28 Hungary 43.32 years 2023 up 7.8% rising
29 Andorra 43.16 years 2023 up 10.3% rising
30 Jersey 43.1 years 2023 up 7.0% rising
31 Austria 43.09 years 2023 up 3.2% rising
32 Latvia 43.08 years 2023 up 4.4% rising
33 Finland 42.79 years 2023 up 3.4% rising
34 Czechia 42.72 years 2023 up 7.9% rising
35 Romania 42.62 years 2023 up 7.8% rising
36 Switzerland 42.33 years 2023 up 3.2% rising
37 Lithuania 42.12 years 2023 up 2.1% rising
38 Ukraine 41.98 years 2023 up 8.1% rising
39 Estonia 41.89 years 2023 up 4.3% rising
40 France 41.82 years 2023 up 5.1% rising
41 Cuba 41.71 years 2023 up 7.6% rising
42 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 41.59 years 2023 up 15.8% rising
43 Montserrat 41.55 years 2023 up 7.7% rising
44 Falkland Islands 41.53 years 2023 up 9.2% rising
45 Belgium 41.44 years 2023 up 3.1% rising
46 Netherlands 41.4 years 2023 up 1.7% rising
47 Poland 41.31 years 2023 up 9.8% rising
48 Slovakia 41.3 years 2023 up 10.6% rising
49 Denmark 41.25 years 2023 up 2.7% rising
50 Aruba 41.02 years 2023 up 7.3% rising
51 Belarus 40.53 years 2023 up 5.9% rising
52 Canada 40.34 years 2023 up 2.7% rising
53 Malta 40.28 years 2023 up 2.2% rising
54 North Macedonia 40.26 years 2023 up 12.3% rising
55 Sweden 39.91 years 2023 down 0.0% rising
56 United Kingdom 39.78 years 2023 up 3.0% rising
57 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 39.66 years 2023 up 4.7% rising
58 Thailand 39.66 years 2023 up 13.8% rising
59 Norway 39.54 years 2023 up 4.1% rising
60 Russia 39.45 years 2023 up 5.6% rising
61 Saint Martin (French part) 39.36 years 2023 up 25.7% rising
62 Montenegro 39.29 years 2023 up 8.9% rising
63 China 39.07 years 2023 up 11.2% rising
64 Barbados 38.91 years 2023 up 6.8% rising
65 Luxembourg 38.89 years 2023 up 2.0% rising
66 Gibraltar 38.88 years 2023 up 0.1% rising
67 Saint Barthelemy 38.81 years 2023 up 5.5% rising
68 Ireland 38.42 years 2023 up 11.0% rising
69 Macao 38.31 years 2023 up 6.5% rising
70 Turks and Caicos Islands 38.3 years 2023 up 11.7% rising
71 Curacao 38.23 years 2023 down 1.7% rising
72 United States 38.02 years 2023 up 5.1% rising
73 Anguilla 38.01 years 2023 up 15.7% rising
74 Cayman Islands 37.88 years 2023 up 8.3% rising
75 Palau 37.84 years 2023 up 10.2% rising
76 Cyprus 37.76 years 2023 up 11.6% rising
77 Moldova 37.75 years 2023 up 9.9% rising
78 Australia 37.75 years 2023 up 4.2% rising
79 British Virgin Islands 37.55 years 2023 up 12.7% rising
80 Reunion 37.43 years 2023 up 16.6% rising
81 New Zealand 37.28 years 2023 up 2.1% rising
82 Faroe Islands 37.26 years 2023 down 1.6% rising
83 Wallis and Futuna 37.17 years 2023 up 18.6% rising
84 Mauritius 36.93 years 2023 up 11.3% rising
85 Georgia 36.8 years 2023 up 2.6% rising
86 Trinidad and Tobago 36.72 years 2023 up 14.9% rising
87 Niue 36.55 years 2023 up 5.3% rising
88 Albania 36.28 years 2023 up 11.1% rising
89 Northern Mariana Islands 36.14 years 2023 up 10.4% rising
90 North Korea 36.05 years 2023 up 6.9% rising
91 Chile 35.97 years 2023 up 10.0% rising
92 Armenia 35.83 years 2023 up 11.7% rising
93 Iceland 35.81 years 2023 up 3.7% rising
94 Uruguay 35.78 years 2023 up 6.2% rising
95 Dominica 35.62 years 2023 up 17.5% rising
96 Antigua and Barbuda 35.49 years 2023 up 13.4% rising
97 Saint Kitts and Nevis 35.35 years 2023 up 14.6% rising
98 Singapore 35.1 years 2023 up 6.3% rising
99 Cook Islands 35.08 years 2023 up 15.7% rising
100 French Polynesia 34.79 years 2023 up 20.5% rising
101 Bahamas 34.6 years 2023 up 10.4% rising
102 Kuwait 34.5 years 2023 up 10.1% rising
103 Greenland 34.23 years 2023 up 4.4% rising
104 Costa Rica 34.07 years 2023 up 16.4% rising
105 Brazil 33.94 years 2023 up 14.8% rising
106 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 33.9 years 2023 up 13.9% rising
107 New Caledonia 33.89 years 2023 up 13.0% rising
108 Saint Lucia 33.74 years 2023 up 14.0% rising
109 Seychelles 33.65 years 2023 up 9.7% rising
110 Grenada 33.38 years 2023 up 16.5% rising
111 Qatar 33.19 years 2023 up 11.1% rising
112 Bahrain 32.88 years 2023 up 10.6% rising
113 Iran 32.87 years 2023 up 18.7% rising
114 Sri Lanka 32.81 years 2023 up 8.9% rising
115 Azerbaijan 32.6 years 2023 up 12.3% rising
116 Turkey 32.52 years 2023 up 11.6% rising
117 Vietnam 32.43 years 2023 up 14.1% rising
118 Tunisia 32.13 years 2023 up 11.6% rising
119 Argentina 32.12 years 2023 up 8.9% rising
120 Western Sahara 32.04 years 2023 up 13.6% rising
121 Brunei 31.76 years 2023 up 14.5% rising
122 Jamaica 31.67 years 2023 up 18.0% rising
123 Colombia 31.61 years 2023 up 14.0% rising
124 United Arab Emirates 31.23 years 2023 up 1.6% rising
125 Maldives 31.12 years 2023 up 22.4% rising
126 Guam 31.12 years 2023 up 7.5% rising
127 Malaysia 30.06 years 2023 up 15.2% rising
128 Indonesia 29.83 years 2023 up 9.0% rising
129 Panama 29.6 years 2023 up 10.7% rising
130 Myanmar 29.53 years 2023 up 10.4% rising
131 Kazakhstan 29.46 years 2023 up 5.7% rising
132 Peru 29.45 years 2023 up 11.7% rising
133 Bhutan 29.39 years 2023 up 21.8% rising
134 Oman 29.27 years 2023 up 7.8% rising
135 Saudi Arabia 29.25 years 2023 up 14.5% rising
136 Morocco 29.19 years 2023 up 13.6% rising
137 Israel 29.15 years 2023 up 1.9% rising
138 Venezuela 29.02 years 2023 up 12.9% rising
139 Mexico 28.89 years 2023 up 12.6% rising
140 American Samoa 28.43 years 2023 up 23.4% rising
141 Ecuador 28.41 years 2023 up 15.1% rising
142 Lebanon 28.32 years 2023 up 1.6% rising
143 South Africa 28.21 years 2023 up 14.3% rising
144 Algeria 28.19 years 2023 up 8.1% rising
145 Suriname 28.1 years 2023 up 7.5% rising
146 India 28.06 years 2023 up 14.1% rising
147 Cape Verde 27.87 years 2023 up 20.5% rising
148 Fiji 27.67 years 2023 up 10.2% rising
149 Dominican Republic 27.65 years 2023 up 12.7% rising
150 Libya 27.2 years 2023 up 9.0% rising
151 El Salvador 26.96 years 2023 up 15.9% rising
152 Uzbekistan 26.91 years 2023 up 9.0% rising
153 Mongolia 26.75 years 2023 up 6.0% rising
154 Tokelau 26.65 years 2023 up 7.4% rising
155 Paraguay 26.34 years 2023 up 13.3% rising
156 Turkmenistan 26.23 years 2023 up 10.3% rising
157 Belize 25.95 years 2023 up 17.9% rising
158 Cambodia 25.84 years 2023 up 15.2% rising
159 Guyana 25.61 years 2023 up 8.9% rising
160 Bangladesh 25.32 years 2023 up 11.0% rising
161 Philippines 25.29 years 2023 up 17.0% rising
162 Nicaragua 25.27 years 2023 up 14.6% rising
163 French Guiana 25.22 years 2023 up 10.7% flat
164 Kyrgyzstan 25.13 years 2023 up 6.3% rising
165 Nepal 24.68 years 2023 up 18.8% rising
166 Bolivia 24.66 years 2023 up 10.9% rising
167 Djibouti 24.39 years 2023 up 13.6% rising
168 Tuvalu 24.29 years 2023 up 4.4% rising
169 Laos 24.28 years 2023 up 14.4% rising
170 Jordan 24.28 years 2023 up 14.8% rising
171 Egypt 24.03 years 2023 up 5.9% rising
172 Honduras 23.55 years 2023 up 16.2% rising
173 Haiti 23.51 years 2023 up 12.0% rising
174 Botswana 22.88 years 2023 up 5.4% rising
175 Micronesia (country) 22.85 years 2023 up 10.6% rising
176 Kiribati 22.69 years 2023 up 9.0% rising
177 Guatemala 22.63 years 2023 up 16.5% rising
178 Papua New Guinea 22.34 years 2023 up 9.2% rising
179 Syria 22.25 years 2023 up 10.5% rising
180 Eswatini 22 years 2023 up 13.0% rising
181 Tajikistan 21.93 years 2023 up 7.6% flat
182 Gabon 21.5 years 2023 up 3.1% falling
183 Lesotho 21.43 years 2023 up 6.5% rising
184 Equatorial Guinea 20.98 years 2023 up 1.5% flat
185 East Timor 20.97 years 2023 up 14.7% flat
186 Namibia 20.96 years 2023 up 4.4% rising
187 Ghana 20.93 years 2023 up 7.0% rising
188 Marshall Islands 20.7 years 2023 up 3.1% rising
189 Tonga 20.7 years 2023 up 1.4% rising
190 Nauru 20.43 years 2023 down 1.0% flat
191 Iraq 20.34 years 2023 up 11.5% flat
192 Comoros 20.33 years 2023 up 10.8% flat
193 Pakistan 20.29 years 2023 up 6.2% rising
194 Solomon Islands 20.25 years 2023 up 8.2% rising
195 Vanuatu 20.14 years 2023 up 1.3% rising
196 Samoa 19.9 years 2023 unchanged rising
197 Palestine 19.76 years 2023 up 9.1% rising
198 Kenya 19.53 years 2023 up 13.0% rising
199 Rwanda 19.44 years 2023 up 8.5% rising
200 Sierra Leone 19.27 years 2023 up 10.8% falling
201 Senegal 19.13 years 2023 up 9.7% flat
202 Sao Tome and Principe 19.05 years 2023 up 6.9% falling
203 Guinea-Bissau 18.94 years 2023 up 9.3% falling
204 Madagascar 18.88 years 2023 up 10.4% flat
205 Ethiopia 18.73 years 2023 up 13.5% flat
206 Eritrea 18.65 years 2023 up 7.4% flat
207 Liberia 18.36 years 2023 up 4.2% flat
208 Congo 18.31 years 2023 down 0.8% flat
209 Sudan 18.28 years 2023 up 11.2% rising
210 Yemen 18.18 years 2023 up 4.9% falling
211 Gambia 18.17 years 2023 up 9.2% falling
212 Togo 18.14 years 2023 up 4.9% rising
213 Cote d'Ivoire 18.1 years 2023 up 0.9% flat
214 Guinea 17.98 years 2023 up 8.2% falling
215 South Sudan 17.97 years 2023 down 1.7% flat
216 Zimbabwe 17.81 years 2023 up 5.6% rising
217 Benin 17.77 years 2023 up 4.9% falling
218 Nigeria 17.75 years 2023 up 6.8% falling
219 Cameroon 17.75 years 2023 up 4.4% falling
220 Malawi 17.58 years 2023 up 11.5% falling
221 Zambia 17.49 years 2023 up 10.2% flat
222 Burkina Faso 17.25 years 2023 up 8.1% falling
223 Tanzania 17.24 years 2023 up 6.3% flat
224 Mauritania 17.12 years 2023 up 2.3% flat
225 Afghanistan 16.94 years 2023 up 12.0% falling
226 Mayotte 16.79 years 2023 up 1.9% rising
227 Uganda 16.51 years 2023 up 14.2% falling
228 Angola 16.45 years 2023 up 0.8% falling
229 Mozambique 16.32 years 2023 up 3.5% falling
230 Burundi 15.9 years 2023 down 0.5% falling
231 Democratic Republic of Congo 15.77 years 2023 down 0.3% falling
232 Mali 15.47 years 2023 up 3.4% falling
233 Somalia 15.45 years 2023 up 3.5% falling
234 Chad 15.4 years 2023 up 5.5% falling
235 Niger 15.25 years 2023 up 7.0% flat
236 Central African Republic 14.32 years 2023 down 4.2% falling

About this data

Indicator
Median age
Unit
years
Source
UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 17,464 data points, 1950–2023
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The age that divides the population into two halves of equal size — half are younger and half are older.