Median age by country, 2022

Half the population is older and half is younger than this age. Values are UN estimates.

◀▶2022

#	Country / area	Median age	2012
1	Holy See	59.9 yrs	62.4 yrs
2	Monaco	55.0 yrs	50.1 yrs
3	Saint Helena	50.2 yrs	45.2 yrs
4	Japan	48.5 yrs	44.8 yrs
5	Martinique	48.2 yrs	40.5 yrs
6	Italy	47.1 yrs	43.2 yrs
7	San Marino	46.8 yrs	42.3 yrs
8	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	46.0 yrs	41.3 yrs
9	Guadeloupe	45.9 yrs	38.2 yrs
10	Portugal	45.8 yrs	41.4 yrs
11	China, Hong Kong SAR	45.6 yrs	40.7 yrs
12	Isle of Man	45.5 yrs	42.0 yrs
13	Greece	45.4 yrs	41.2 yrs
14	Puerto Rico	45.2 yrs	37.5 yrs
15	Germany	45.0 yrs	44.1 yrs
16	Bermuda	44.7 yrs	41.0 yrs
17	Croatia	44.6 yrs	41.5 yrs
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	44.6 yrs	39.5 yrs
19	United States Virgin Islands	44.6 yrs	39.4 yrs
20	Spain	44.4 yrs	40.1 yrs
21	Bulgaria	44.1 yrs	41.8 yrs
22	Liechtenstein	44.0 yrs	40.9 yrs
23	Guernsey	43.9 yrs	41.5 yrs
24	Republic of Korea	43.9 yrs	37.9 yrs
25	Serbia	43.7 yrs	41.6 yrs
26	Slovenia	43.5 yrs	41.1 yrs
27	Hungary	43.0 yrs	39.9 yrs
28	Latvia	43.0 yrs	40.9 yrs
29	Jersey	42.9 yrs	40.0 yrs
30	China, Taiwan Province of China	42.9 yrs	37.5 yrs
31	Andorra	42.8 yrs	38.8 yrs
32	Austria	42.8 yrs	41.5 yrs
33	Czechia	42.6 yrs	39.2 yrs
34	Lithuania	42.6 yrs	40.9 yrs
35	Finland	42.5 yrs	41.3 yrs
36	Romania	42.4 yrs	39.2 yrs
37	Switzerland	42.0 yrs	40.9 yrs
38	Estonia	41.6 yrs	39.9 yrs
39	France	41.6 yrs	39.5 yrs
40	Ukraine	41.5 yrs	38.8 yrs
41	Netherlands	41.5 yrs	40.4 yrs
42	Cuba	41.5 yrs	38.3 yrs
43	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	41.5 yrs	35.4 yrs
44	Montserrat	41.4 yrs	38.2 yrs
45	Denmark	41.2 yrs	39.9 yrs
46	Belgium	41.1 yrs	40.1 yrs
47	Slovakia	40.9 yrs	36.9 yrs
48	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	40.9 yrs	37.8 yrs
49	Poland	40.9 yrs	37.3 yrs
50	Aruba	40.8 yrs	37.9 yrs
51	Canada	40.3 yrs	39.1 yrs
52	Belarus	40.2 yrs	38.2 yrs
53	North Macedonia	39.9 yrs	35.4 yrs
54	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	39.8 yrs	37.7 yrs
55	Malta	39.8 yrs	39.2 yrs
56	Sweden	39.7 yrs	39.9 yrs
57	United Kingdom	39.5 yrs	38.5 yrs
58	Norway	39.4 yrs	37.9 yrs
59	Thailand	39.2 yrs	34.4 yrs
60	Montenegro	39.1 yrs	35.8 yrs
61	Russian Federation	39.1 yrs	37.2 yrs
62	Gibraltar	39.0 yrs	38.7 yrs
63	Saint Barthélemy	38.7 yrs	36.8 yrs
64	Luxembourg	38.7 yrs	38.1 yrs
65	Barbados	38.6 yrs	36.2 yrs
66	China	38.5 yrs	34.9 yrs
67	Saint Martin (French part)	38.4 yrs	31.0 yrs
68	Ireland	38.0 yrs	34.2 yrs
69	Curaçao	38.0 yrs	38.9 yrs
70	Turks and Caicos Islands	37.9 yrs	33.9 yrs
71	Anguilla	37.8 yrs	32.4 yrs
72	China, Macao SAR	37.8 yrs	35.9 yrs
73	United States of America	37.7 yrs	36.1 yrs
74	Australia	37.5 yrs	36.2 yrs
75	Cayman Islands	37.5 yrs	34.8 yrs
76	Palau	37.5 yrs	34.0 yrs
77	Faroe Islands	37.5 yrs	37.5 yrs
78	Republic of Moldova	37.5 yrs	34.1 yrs
79	Cyprus	37.3 yrs	33.5 yrs
80	New Zealand	37.1 yrs	36.4 yrs
81	Réunion	37.1 yrs	31.5 yrs
82	British Virgin Islands	37.1 yrs	33.1 yrs
83	Niue	36.7 yrs	34.5 yrs
84	Wallis and Futuna Islands	36.6 yrs	30.5 yrs
85	Georgia	36.6 yrs	35.6 yrs
86	Mauritius	36.5 yrs	32.8 yrs
87	Trinidad and Tobago	36.2 yrs	31.5 yrs
88	Albania	35.9 yrs	32.4 yrs
89	Iceland	35.8 yrs	34.4 yrs
90	Armenia	35.8 yrs	31.8 yrs
91	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	35.8 yrs	33.5 yrs
92	Uruguay	35.5 yrs	33.5 yrs
93	Chile	35.5 yrs	32.4 yrs
94	Dominica	35.3 yrs	30.6 yrs
95	Northern Mariana Islands	35.2 yrs	32.7 yrs
96	Antigua and Barbuda	35.1 yrs	30.9 yrs
97	Saint Kitts and Nevis	35.0 yrs	30.4 yrs
98	Singapore	34.9 yrs	32.9 yrs
99	Bahamas	34.2 yrs	31.1 yrs
100	French Polynesia	34.2 yrs	28.5 yrs
101	Cook Islands	34.1 yrs	29.9 yrs
102	Greenland	33.9 yrs	32.6 yrs
103	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	33.6 yrs	29.3 yrs
104	New Caledonia	33.6 yrs	29.7 yrs
105	Kuwait	33.5 yrs	30.6 yrs
106	Costa Rica	33.5 yrs	28.8 yrs
107	Brazil	33.5 yrs	29.1 yrs
108	Seychelles	33.4 yrs	30.5 yrs
109	Saint Lucia	33.3 yrs	29.2 yrs
110	Grenada	32.9 yrs	28.3 yrs
111	Sri Lanka	32.6 yrs	29.8 yrs
112	Qatar	32.5 yrs	29.9 yrs
113	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	32.3 yrs	27.1 yrs
114	Azerbaijan	32.1 yrs	28.8 yrs
115	Türkiye	32.1 yrs	28.8 yrs
116	Viet Nam	31.9 yrs	28.0 yrs
117	Argentina	31.7 yrs	29.3 yrs
118	Tunisia	31.7 yrs	28.5 yrs
119	Bahrain	31.7 yrs	29.5 yrs
120	Western Sahara	31.7 yrs	27.8 yrs
121	Brunei Darussalam	31.3 yrs	27.4 yrs
122	Colombia	31.2 yrs	27.3 yrs
123	Jamaica	31.1 yrs	26.4 yrs
124	Guam	31.0 yrs	28.6 yrs
125	United Arab Emirates	30.9 yrs	30.7 yrs
126	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	30.8 yrs	25.9 yrs
127	Maldives	30.3 yrs	24.7 yrs
128	Indonesia	29.6 yrs	27.1 yrs
129	Malaysia	29.6 yrs	25.7 yrs
130	Kazakhstan	29.4 yrs	27.7 yrs
131	Panama	29.3 yrs	26.5 yrs
132	Myanmar	29.3 yrs	26.4 yrs
133	Israel	29.1 yrs	28.5 yrs
134	Peru	29.1 yrs	26.0 yrs
135	Oman	29.0 yrs	26.6 yrs
136	Morocco	28.9 yrs	25.4 yrs
137	Bhutan	28.8 yrs	23.7 yrs
138	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	28.8 yrs	25.4 yrs
139	Saudi Arabia	28.7 yrs	24.9 yrs
140	Mexico	28.5 yrs	25.4 yrs
141	Lebanon	28.1 yrs	27.6 yrs
142	Algeria	28.0 yrs	25.8 yrs
143	Ecuador	28.0 yrs	24.4 yrs
144	Suriname	27.9 yrs	25.9 yrs
145	South Africa	27.9 yrs	24.3 yrs
146	American Samoa	27.9 yrs	22.5 yrs
147	India	27.7 yrs	24.3 yrs
148	Fiji	27.5 yrs	24.9 yrs
149	Cabo Verde	27.3 yrs	22.6 yrs
150	Dominican Republic	27.3 yrs	24.3 yrs
151	Libya	26.9 yrs	24.7 yrs
152	Uzbekistan	26.8 yrs	24.4 yrs
153	Tokelau	26.6 yrs	24.8 yrs
154	Mongolia	26.6 yrs	25.0 yrs
155	El Salvador	26.5 yrs	23.0 yrs
156	Paraguay	26.0 yrs	22.9 yrs
157	Turkmenistan	25.9 yrs	23.5 yrs
158	Cambodia	25.6 yrs	22.0 yrs
159	Belize	25.5 yrs	21.6 yrs
160	Guyana	25.3 yrs	23.5 yrs
161	French Guiana	25.2 yrs	22.8 yrs
162	Kyrgyzstan	25.0 yrs	23.4 yrs
163	Bangladesh	25.0 yrs	22.5 yrs
164	Nicaragua	24.9 yrs	21.7 yrs
165	Philippines	24.9 yrs	21.4 yrs
166	Nepal	24.4 yrs	20.6 yrs
167	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	24.4 yrs	22.0 yrs
168	Tuvalu	24.3 yrs	23.1 yrs
169	Djibouti	24.1 yrs	21.2 yrs
170	Lao People's Democratic Republic	24.0 yrs	20.8 yrs
171	Jordan	23.9 yrs	21.0 yrs
172	Egypt	23.8 yrs	22.6 yrs
173	Haiti	23.3 yrs	20.7 yrs
174	Honduras	23.2 yrs	19.9 yrs
175	Botswana	22.6 yrs	21.8 yrs
176	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	22.6 yrs	20.5 yrs
177	Kiribati	22.5 yrs	20.6 yrs
178	Guatemala	22.2 yrs	19.1 yrs
179	Papua New Guinea	22.1 yrs	20.3 yrs
180	Eswatini	21.8 yrs	19.2 yrs
181	Tajikistan	21.7 yrs	20.2 yrs
182	Syrian Arab Republic	21.6 yrs	20.8 yrs
183	Gabon	21.5 yrs	20.6 yrs
184	Lesotho	21.3 yrs	20.0 yrs
185	Marshall Islands	21.0 yrs	19.9 yrs
186	Equatorial Guinea	21.0 yrs	20.5 yrs
187	Namibia	20.8 yrs	19.9 yrs
188	Ghana	20.7 yrs	19.4 yrs
189	Tonga	20.7 yrs	20.2 yrs
190	Nauru	20.6 yrs	20.7 yrs
191	Timor-Leste	20.6 yrs	18.1 yrs
192	Iraq	20.1 yrs	18.1 yrs
193	Comoros	20.1 yrs	18.1 yrs
194	Samoa	20.1 yrs	19.8 yrs
195	Pakistan	20.1 yrs	19.0 yrs
196	Vanuatu	20.1 yrs	19.8 yrs
197	Solomon Islands	20.0 yrs	18.6 yrs
198	State of Palestine	19.6 yrs	17.9 yrs
199	Kenya	19.3 yrs	17.1 yrs
200	Rwanda	19.2 yrs	17.8 yrs
201	Sierra Leone	19.0 yrs	17.3 yrs
202	Sao Tome and Principe	18.9 yrs	17.8 yrs
203	Senegal	18.9 yrs	17.4 yrs
204	Guinea-Bissau	18.7 yrs	17.3 yrs
205	Togo	18.7 yrs	18.1 yrs
206	Madagascar	18.7 yrs	16.9 yrs
207	Ethiopia	18.5 yrs	16.3 yrs
208	Eritrea	18.4 yrs	17.4 yrs
209	Congo	18.2 yrs	18.6 yrs
210	Liberia	18.2 yrs	17.7 yrs
211	Yemen	18.1 yrs	17.1 yrs
212	Sudan	18.1 yrs	16.4 yrs
213	Gambia	18.0 yrs	16.5 yrs
214	Côte d'Ivoire	18.0 yrs	17.5 yrs
215	Guinea	17.8 yrs	16.5 yrs
216	Zimbabwe	17.7 yrs	17.0 yrs
217	Cameroon	17.6 yrs	16.9 yrs
218	Nigeria	17.6 yrs	16.6 yrs
219	Benin	17.6 yrs	16.9 yrs
220	South Sudan	17.6 yrs	18.2 yrs
221	Zambia	17.3 yrs	15.8 yrs
222	Malawi	17.3 yrs	15.7 yrs
223	United Republic of Tanzania	17.1 yrs	16.1 yrs
224	Burkina Faso	17.0 yrs	16.0 yrs
225	Mauritania	17.0 yrs	16.8 yrs
226	Afghanistan	16.8 yrs	14.9 yrs
227	Mayotte	16.7 yrs	16.4 yrs
228	Angola	16.4 yrs	16.3 yrs
229	Uganda	16.3 yrs	14.4 yrs
230	Mozambique	16.3 yrs	15.8 yrs
231	Democratic Republic of the Congo	15.8 yrs	15.8 yrs
232	Burundi	15.7 yrs	16.1 yrs
233	Somalia	15.4 yrs	14.9 yrs
234	Mali	15.3 yrs	15.1 yrs
235	Chad	15.1 yrs	14.6 yrs
236	Niger	15.1 yrs	14.2 yrs
237	Central African Republic	14.3 yrs	15.2 yrs

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