Median age by country, 2026

Half the population is older and half is younger than this age. Values are UN medium-variant projections.

◀▶2026

#	Country / area	Median age	2016
1	Holy See	56.2 yrs	60.6 yrs
2	Monaco	53.1 yrs	53.5 yrs
3	Saint Helena	51.0 yrs	46.2 yrs
4	Martinique	50.2 yrs	43.8 yrs
5	Japan	50.2 yrs	46.2 yrs
6	San Marino	49.1 yrs	43.9 yrs
7	Italy	48.6 yrs	44.8 yrs
8	China, Hong Kong SAR	48.0 yrs	42.2 yrs
9	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	47.6 yrs	43.5 yrs
10	Guadeloupe	47.4 yrs	41.1 yrs
11	Portugal	47.2 yrs	43.3 yrs
12	Greece	47.1 yrs	43.1 yrs
13	Bermuda	46.4 yrs	42.7 yrs
14	Spain	46.3 yrs	42.0 yrs
15	Isle of Man	46.3 yrs	43.9 yrs
16	Puerto Rico	46.2 yrs	40.8 yrs
17	Republic of Korea	46.2 yrs	40.5 yrs
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	46.1 yrs	41.7 yrs
19	Germany	45.7 yrs	44.8 yrs
20	Croatia	45.5 yrs	42.7 yrs
21	China, Taiwan Province of China	45.4 yrs	39.5 yrs
22	Slovenia	45.0 yrs	42.3 yrs
23	Bulgaria	45.0 yrs	42.8 yrs
24	United States Virgin Islands	44.9 yrs	41.5 yrs
25	Liechtenstein	44.7 yrs	42.5 yrs
26	Serbia	44.6 yrs	42.5 yrs
27	Guernsey	44.5 yrs	42.9 yrs
28	Czechia	44.3 yrs	40.8 yrs
29	Andorra	44.2 yrs	40.4 yrs
30	Hungary	44.1 yrs	41.1 yrs
31	Austria	43.9 yrs	42.0 yrs
32	Saint Martin (French part)	43.9 yrs	33.0 yrs
33	Jersey	43.9 yrs	41.1 yrs
34	Latvia	43.8 yrs	42.0 yrs
35	Romania	43.5 yrs	40.6 yrs
36	Finland	43.4 yrs	41.5 yrs
37	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	43.4 yrs	38.4 yrs
38	Estonia	43.2 yrs	40.7 yrs
39	Switzerland	43.2 yrs	41.3 yrs
40	Poland	43.0 yrs	38.7 yrs
41	Slovakia	42.8 yrs	38.6 yrs
42	Lithuania	42.6 yrs	42.3 yrs
43	Cuba	42.5 yrs	40.1 yrs
44	France	42.5 yrs	40.5 yrs
45	Belgium	42.1 yrs	40.5 yrs
46	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	42.0 yrs	37.7 yrs
47	Ukraine	41.8 yrs	39.5 yrs
48	Belarus	41.8 yrs	38.6 yrs
49	Montserrat	41.8 yrs	39.4 yrs
50	Aruba	41.7 yrs	39.2 yrs
51	Netherlands	41.5 yrs	41.3 yrs
52	Malta	41.5 yrs	39.5 yrs
53	North Macedonia	41.4 yrs	37.3 yrs
54	Denmark	41.3 yrs	40.6 yrs
55	Thailand	41.0 yrs	36.3 yrs
56	Canada	40.8 yrs	39.7 yrs
57	Russian Federation	40.7 yrs	37.8 yrs
58	China	40.6 yrs	36.0 yrs
59	Sweden	40.5 yrs	39.9 yrs
60	Montenegro	40.4 yrs	37.2 yrs
61	China, Macao SAR	40.3 yrs	36.2 yrs
62	United Kingdom	40.2 yrs	38.8 yrs
63	Norway	40.1 yrs	38.3 yrs
64	Luxembourg	39.8 yrs	38.3 yrs
65	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	39.7 yrs	38.5 yrs
66	Barbados	39.7 yrs	37.2 yrs
67	Turks and Caicos Islands	39.6 yrs	35.6 yrs
68	Ireland	39.2 yrs	35.7 yrs
69	Anguilla	39.1 yrs	34.0 yrs
70	Cyprus	39.1 yrs	34.9 yrs
71	Cayman Islands	39.1 yrs	35.5 yrs
72	Saint Barthélemy	39.1 yrs	37.2 yrs
73	Republic of Moldova	39.1 yrs	35.4 yrs
74	British Virgin Islands	39.1 yrs	34.7 yrs
75	Curaçao	39.0 yrs	39.1 yrs
76	Palau	38.9 yrs	35.3 yrs
77	Gibraltar	38.8 yrs	39.2 yrs
78	Northern Mariana Islands	38.8 yrs	32.9 yrs
79	United States of America	38.7 yrs	36.5 yrs
80	Wallis and Futuna Islands	38.6 yrs	33.3 yrs
81	Australia	38.5 yrs	36.3 yrs
82	Réunion	38.4 yrs	33.5 yrs
83	Mauritius	38.3 yrs	34.4 yrs
84	Trinidad and Tobago	38.2 yrs	33.4 yrs
85	Cook Islands	38.1 yrs	31.4 yrs
86	New Zealand	38.0 yrs	36.3 yrs
87	Albania	37.8 yrs	33.6 yrs
88	Georgia	37.6 yrs	36.1 yrs
89	Chile	37.4 yrs	33.6 yrs
90	Armenia	37.2 yrs	33.1 yrs
91	Faroe Islands	37.1 yrs	38.2 yrs
92	Uruguay	36.8 yrs	34.2 yrs
93	Singapore	36.8 yrs	33.5 yrs
94	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	36.8 yrs	34.4 yrs
95	Antigua and Barbuda	36.7 yrs	32.5 yrs
96	French Polynesia	36.7 yrs	30.3 yrs
97	Dominica	36.6 yrs	31.7 yrs
98	Iceland	36.5 yrs	35.2 yrs
99	Saint Kitts and Nevis	36.5 yrs	32.2 yrs
100	Costa Rica	35.7 yrs	30.6 yrs
101	Bahamas	35.6 yrs	32.2 yrs
102	Greenland	35.5 yrs	33.2 yrs
103	Brazil	35.3 yrs	30.9 yrs
104	Saint Lucia	35.1 yrs	30.9 yrs
105	Niue	35.1 yrs	35.4 yrs
106	Grenada	34.9 yrs	29.9 yrs
107	Kuwait	34.8 yrs	33.7 yrs
108	New Caledonia	34.8 yrs	31.1 yrs
109	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	34.7 yrs	31.2 yrs
110	Seychelles	34.6 yrs	31.3 yrs
111	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	34.5 yrs	29.2 yrs
112	Azerbaijan	34.1 yrs	29.9 yrs
113	Türkiye	33.9 yrs	29.9 yrs
114	Viet Nam	33.9 yrs	29.5 yrs
115	Sri Lanka	33.6 yrs	31.0 yrs
116	Qatar	33.4 yrs	30.3 yrs
117	Tunisia	33.4 yrs	29.7 yrs
118	Bahrain	33.4 yrs	30.1 yrs
119	Maldives	33.4 yrs	27.0 yrs
120	Argentina	33.3 yrs	30.1 yrs
121	Jamaica	33.3 yrs	28.3 yrs
122	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	33.2 yrs	27.7 yrs
123	Brunei Darussalam	33.2 yrs	28.8 yrs
124	Colombia	33.0 yrs	29.0 yrs
125	Western Sahara	32.9 yrs	29.4 yrs
126	United Arab Emirates	31.6 yrs	30.8 yrs
127	Guam	31.6 yrs	29.9 yrs
128	Malaysia	31.4 yrs	27.1 yrs
129	Bhutan	31.0 yrs	25.4 yrs
130	Indonesia	30.7 yrs	28.1 yrs
131	Panama	30.6 yrs	27.5 yrs
132	Peru	30.6 yrs	27.3 yrs
133	Myanmar	30.4 yrs	27.6 yrs
134	Morocco	30.1 yrs	26.8 yrs
135	Mexico	30.0 yrs	26.6 yrs
136	Oman	29.8 yrs	28.2 yrs
137	Ecuador	29.7 yrs	25.7 yrs
138	Kazakhstan	29.7 yrs	28.5 yrs
139	Saudi Arabia	29.7 yrs	27.6 yrs
140	Cabo Verde	29.5 yrs	24.7 yrs
141	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	29.5 yrs	26.7 yrs
142	Israel	29.3 yrs	28.8 yrs
143	India	29.2 yrs	25.6 yrs
144	American Samoa	29.1 yrs	24.8 yrs
145	Lebanon	29.0 yrs	28.4 yrs
146	Suriname	28.9 yrs	26.7 yrs
147	South Africa	28.9 yrs	25.7 yrs
148	Algeria	28.8 yrs	26.8 yrs
149	Dominican Republic	28.7 yrs	25.4 yrs
150	El Salvador	28.4 yrs	24.2 yrs
151	Fiji	28.3 yrs	25.9 yrs
152	Libya	28.0 yrs	25.6 yrs
153	Tokelau	27.6 yrs	25.5 yrs
154	Turkmenistan	27.3 yrs	24.5 yrs
155	Paraguay	27.3 yrs	24.2 yrs
156	Belize	27.3 yrs	23.1 yrs
157	Uzbekistan	27.0 yrs	25.5 yrs
158	Mongolia	27.0 yrs	25.9 yrs
159	Philippines	26.6 yrs	22.6 yrs
160	Guyana	26.5 yrs	23.8 yrs
161	Cambodia	26.4 yrs	23.6 yrs
162	Nicaragua	26.3 yrs	23.0 yrs
163	Bangladesh	26.3 yrs	23.8 yrs
164	Nepal	25.7 yrs	21.5 yrs
165	Kyrgyzstan	25.5 yrs	24.1 yrs
166	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	25.5 yrs	23.0 yrs
167	Lao People's Democratic Republic	25.3 yrs	22.3 yrs
168	Djibouti	25.2 yrs	22.3 yrs
169	Jordan	24.9 yrs	21.8 yrs
170	French Guiana	24.9 yrs	23.6 yrs
171	Egypt	24.7 yrs	23.0 yrs
172	Honduras	24.6 yrs	21.2 yrs
173	Haiti	24.4 yrs	21.8 yrs
174	Tuvalu	24.1 yrs	23.9 yrs
175	Guatemala	23.8 yrs	20.3 yrs
176	Syrian Arab Republic	23.8 yrs	18.4 yrs
177	Botswana	23.7 yrs	21.7 yrs
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	23.5 yrs	21.3 yrs
179	Kiribati	23.0 yrs	21.5 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	23.0 yrs	21.0 yrs
181	Eswatini	22.7 yrs	20.2 yrs
182	Tajikistan	22.4 yrs	20.9 yrs
183	Lesotho	22.1 yrs	20.4 yrs
184	Timor-Leste	22.1 yrs	19.0 yrs
185	Ghana	21.6 yrs	19.9 yrs
186	Gabon	21.6 yrs	21.3 yrs
187	Namibia	21.5 yrs	20.5 yrs
188	Iraq	21.1 yrs	18.7 yrs
189	Tonga	21.0 yrs	20.7 yrs
190	Solomon Islands	20.9 yrs	19.0 yrs
191	Equatorial Guinea	20.9 yrs	21.0 yrs
192	Pakistan	20.8 yrs	19.3 yrs
193	Comoros	20.7 yrs	18.9 yrs
194	Marshall Islands	20.5 yrs	20.8 yrs
195	Vanuatu	20.4 yrs	20.2 yrs
196	Kenya	20.3 yrs	17.9 yrs
197	State of Palestine	20.3 yrs	18.8 yrs
198	Nauru	20.2 yrs	20.5 yrs
199	Rwanda	20.2 yrs	18.4 yrs
200	Sierra Leone	19.9 yrs	17.8 yrs
201	Samoa	19.8 yrs	20.2 yrs
202	Senegal	19.8 yrs	17.6 yrs
203	Sao Tome and Principe	19.7 yrs	17.9 yrs
204	Guinea-Bissau	19.6 yrs	17.7 yrs
205	Eritrea	19.5 yrs	17.4 yrs
206	Madagascar	19.4 yrs	17.7 yrs
207	Ethiopia	19.3 yrs	17.3 yrs
208	Togo	19.2 yrs	18.2 yrs
209	Liberia	19.0 yrs	17.6 yrs
210	South Sudan	19.0 yrs	17.0 yrs
211	Gambia	18.8 yrs	17.0 yrs
212	Sudan	18.8 yrs	17.0 yrs
213	Congo	18.7 yrs	18.1 yrs
214	Yemen	18.5 yrs	17.8 yrs
215	Guinea	18.5 yrs	17.0 yrs
216	Côte d'Ivoire	18.5 yrs	17.8 yrs
217	Nigeria	18.4 yrs	16.7 yrs
218	Malawi	18.4 yrs	16.1 yrs
219	Zimbabwe	18.3 yrs	16.8 yrs
220	Cameroon	18.2 yrs	17.3 yrs
221	Zambia	18.2 yrs	16.3 yrs
222	Benin	18.2 yrs	17.1 yrs
223	Burkina Faso	18.0 yrs	16.1 yrs
224	United Republic of Tanzania	17.6 yrs	16.6 yrs
225	Mauritania	17.5 yrs	16.7 yrs
226	Afghanistan	17.4 yrs	15.7 yrs
227	Mayotte	17.3 yrs	16.2 yrs
228	Uganda	17.1 yrs	15.0 yrs
229	Angola	16.7 yrs	16.3 yrs
230	Burundi	16.6 yrs	15.1 yrs
231	Mozambique	16.6 yrs	15.9 yrs
232	Democratic Republic of the Congo	15.9 yrs	15.8 yrs
233	Mali	15.9 yrs	14.9 yrs
234	Chad	15.7 yrs	14.7 yrs
235	Niger	15.7 yrs	14.4 yrs
236	Somalia	15.6 yrs	15.0 yrs
237	Central African Republic	14.6 yrs	14.4 yrs

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