Median age by country, 2025

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

◀▶2025

#	Country / area	Median age	2015
1	Holy See	57.4 yrs	60.8 yrs
2	Monaco	53.6 yrs	52.8 yrs
3	Saint Helena	50.9 yrs	45.8 yrs
4	Japan	49.8 yrs	45.8 yrs
5	Martinique	49.7 yrs	42.9 yrs
6	San Marino	48.6 yrs	43.5 yrs
7	Italy	48.2 yrs	44.4 yrs
8	China, Hong Kong SAR	47.4 yrs	41.7 yrs
9	Guadeloupe	47.2 yrs	40.3 yrs
10	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	47.2 yrs	43.5 yrs
11	Portugal	46.9 yrs	42.8 yrs
12	Greece	46.8 yrs	42.7 yrs
13	Isle of Man	46.1 yrs	43.4 yrs
14	Bermuda	46.0 yrs	42.3 yrs
15	Spain	45.9 yrs	41.6 yrs
16	Puerto Rico	45.8 yrs	39.9 yrs
17	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45.7 yrs	41.2 yrs
18	Republic of Korea	45.6 yrs	39.9 yrs
19	Germany	45.5 yrs	44.8 yrs
20	Croatia	45.3 yrs	42.3 yrs
21	Bulgaria	44.8 yrs	42.5 yrs
22	China, Taiwan Province of China	44.8 yrs	39.0 yrs
23	United States Virgin Islands	44.8 yrs	40.8 yrs
24	Slovenia	44.6 yrs	41.9 yrs
25	Liechtenstein	44.5 yrs	42.1 yrs
26	Serbia	44.4 yrs	42.3 yrs
27	Guernsey	44.3 yrs	42.5 yrs
28	Andorra	43.9 yrs	39.9 yrs
29	Hungary	43.9 yrs	40.7 yrs
30	Czechia	43.8 yrs	40.4 yrs
31	Austria	43.6 yrs	42.0 yrs
32	Jersey	43.6 yrs	40.8 yrs
33	Latvia	43.6 yrs	41.8 yrs
34	Finland	43.2 yrs	41.5 yrs
35	Romania	43.2 yrs	40.3 yrs
36	Switzerland	42.9 yrs	41.3 yrs
37	Estonia	42.8 yrs	40.6 yrs
38	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	42.8 yrs	38.3 yrs
39	Saint Martin (French part)	42.5 yrs	32.3 yrs
40	Poland	42.5 yrs	38.3 yrs
41	Slovakia	42.3 yrs	38.2 yrs
42	France	42.3 yrs	40.3 yrs
43	Lithuania	42.3 yrs	41.9 yrs
44	Cuba	42.2 yrs	39.7 yrs
45	Belgium	41.9 yrs	40.4 yrs
46	Ukraine	41.8 yrs	39.2 yrs
47	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	41.8 yrs	37.1 yrs
48	Montserrat	41.6 yrs	39.2 yrs
49	Aruba	41.5 yrs	38.9 yrs
50	Netherlands	41.5 yrs	41.2 yrs
51	Denmark	41.3 yrs	40.5 yrs
52	Belarus	41.3 yrs	38.5 yrs
53	Malta	41.0 yrs	39.5 yrs
54	North Macedonia	41.0 yrs	36.8 yrs
55	Canada	40.6 yrs	39.6 yrs
56	Thailand	40.5 yrs	35.8 yrs
57	Sweden	40.3 yrs	39.9 yrs
58	Russian Federation	40.3 yrs	37.7 yrs
59	United Kingdom	40.1 yrs	38.8 yrs
60	China	40.1 yrs	35.7 yrs
61	Montenegro	40.0 yrs	36.8 yrs
62	Norway	39.9 yrs	38.2 yrs
63	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	39.6 yrs	38.3 yrs
64	China, Macao SAR	39.6 yrs	36.0 yrs
65	Luxembourg	39.5 yrs	38.3 yrs
66	Barbados	39.4 yrs	37.0 yrs
67	Turks and Caicos Islands	39.2 yrs	35.2 yrs
68	Ireland	39.0 yrs	35.4 yrs
69	Saint Barthélemy	39.0 yrs	37.0 yrs
70	Gibraltar	38.8 yrs	39.1 yrs
71	Anguilla	38.7 yrs	33.5 yrs
72	Curaçao	38.7 yrs	39.0 yrs
73	Cayman Islands	38.7 yrs	35.3 yrs
74	Cyprus	38.6 yrs	34.6 yrs
75	Republic of Moldova	38.6 yrs	35.0 yrs
76	British Virgin Islands	38.6 yrs	33.8 yrs
77	United States of America	38.5 yrs	36.4 yrs
78	Palau	38.5 yrs	35.0 yrs
79	Australia	38.3 yrs	36.3 yrs
80	Wallis and Futuna Islands	38.2 yrs	32.7 yrs
81	Réunion	38.1 yrs	32.9 yrs
82	Northern Mariana Islands	38.0 yrs	32.8 yrs
83	Mauritius	37.8 yrs	34.0 yrs
84	Trinidad and Tobago	37.7 yrs	32.9 yrs
85	New Zealand	37.7 yrs	36.4 yrs
86	Albania	37.3 yrs	33.3 yrs
87	Georgia	37.3 yrs	36.1 yrs
88	Cook Islands	37.1 yrs	31.1 yrs
89	Faroe Islands	37.1 yrs	38.3 yrs
90	Chile	36.9 yrs	33.3 yrs
91	Armenia	36.6 yrs	32.7 yrs
92	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	36.5 yrs	34.2 yrs
93	Uruguay	36.4 yrs	34.0 yrs
94	Antigua and Barbuda	36.3 yrs	32.1 yrs
95	Dominica	36.3 yrs	30.5 yrs
96	Iceland	36.2 yrs	34.9 yrs
97	Singapore	36.2 yrs	33.3 yrs
98	Saint Kitts and Nevis	36.1 yrs	31.8 yrs
99	French Polynesia	36.0 yrs	29.8 yrs
100	Niue	35.6 yrs	35.2 yrs
101	Bahamas	35.3 yrs	31.9 yrs
102	Greenland	35.1 yrs	33.1 yrs
103	Costa Rica	35.1 yrs	30.2 yrs
104	Kuwait	34.8 yrs	32.9 yrs
105	Brazil	34.8 yrs	30.5 yrs
106	Saint Lucia	34.6 yrs	30.5 yrs
107	New Caledonia	34.5 yrs	30.7 yrs
108	Grenada	34.4 yrs	29.5 yrs
109	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	34.4 yrs	30.7 yrs
110	Seychelles	34.3 yrs	31.0 yrs
111	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	34.0 yrs	28.7 yrs
112	Azerbaijan	33.6 yrs	29.6 yrs
113	Qatar	33.5 yrs	30.1 yrs
114	Türkiye	33.5 yrs	29.6 yrs
115	Bahrain	33.4 yrs	30.0 yrs
116	Viet Nam	33.4 yrs	29.2 yrs
117	Sri Lanka	33.3 yrs	30.7 yrs
118	Argentina	32.9 yrs	29.9 yrs
119	Tunisia	32.9 yrs	29.4 yrs
120	Jamaica	32.8 yrs	27.8 yrs
121	Brunei Darussalam	32.7 yrs	28.5 yrs
122	Maldives	32.7 yrs	26.6 yrs
123	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	32.6 yrs	27.2 yrs
124	Western Sahara	32.6 yrs	29.0 yrs
125	Colombia	32.5 yrs	28.6 yrs
126	United Arab Emirates	31.6 yrs	30.8 yrs
127	Guam	31.5 yrs	29.6 yrs
128	Malaysia	30.9 yrs	26.8 yrs
129	Bhutan	30.5 yrs	24.9 yrs
130	Indonesia	30.4 yrs	27.9 yrs
131	Panama	30.3 yrs	27.3 yrs
132	Peru	30.2 yrs	27.1 yrs
133	Myanmar	30.1 yrs	27.4 yrs
134	Morocco	29.8 yrs	26.4 yrs
135	Oman	29.7 yrs	27.8 yrs
136	Kazakhstan	29.7 yrs	28.3 yrs
137	Saudi Arabia	29.6 yrs	27.0 yrs
138	Mexico	29.6 yrs	26.3 yrs
139	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	29.4 yrs	26.3 yrs
140	Ecuador	29.3 yrs	25.4 yrs
141	Israel	29.2 yrs	28.8 yrs
142	Cabo Verde	29.0 yrs	24.2 yrs
143	American Samoa	29.0 yrs	24.2 yrs
144	India	28.8 yrs	25.3 yrs
145	Lebanon	28.8 yrs	28.4 yrs
146	South Africa	28.7 yrs	25.4 yrs
147	Algeria	28.6 yrs	26.6 yrs
148	Suriname	28.6 yrs	26.5 yrs
149	Dominican Republic	28.3 yrs	25.1 yrs
150	Fiji	28.1 yrs	25.6 yrs
151	El Salvador	27.9 yrs	23.8 yrs
152	Libya	27.7 yrs	25.4 yrs
153	Tokelau	27.3 yrs	25.3 yrs
154	Uzbekistan	27.0 yrs	25.3 yrs
155	Paraguay	27.0 yrs	23.9 yrs
156	Turkmenistan	26.9 yrs	24.3 yrs
157	Belize	26.9 yrs	22.7 yrs
158	Mongolia	26.9 yrs	25.7 yrs
159	Guyana	26.2 yrs	23.7 yrs
160	Cambodia	26.2 yrs	23.2 yrs
161	Philippines	26.1 yrs	22.2 yrs
162	Nicaragua	26.0 yrs	22.7 yrs
163	Bangladesh	26.0 yrs	23.5 yrs
164	Kyrgyzstan	25.4 yrs	24.0 yrs
165	Nepal	25.4 yrs	21.2 yrs
166	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	25.2 yrs	22.8 yrs
167	French Guiana	25.0 yrs	23.1 yrs
168	Djibouti	24.9 yrs	22.0 yrs
169	Lao People's Democratic Republic	24.9 yrs	22.0 yrs
170	Jordan	24.7 yrs	21.5 yrs
171	Egypt	24.5 yrs	22.9 yrs
172	Tuvalu	24.2 yrs	23.7 yrs
173	Honduras	24.2 yrs	20.9 yrs
174	Haiti	24.1 yrs	21.5 yrs
175	Guatemala	23.4 yrs	20.0 yrs
176	Botswana	23.4 yrs	21.7 yrs
177	Syrian Arab Republic	23.3 yrs	18.4 yrs
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	23.3 yrs	21.0 yrs
179	Kiribati	22.9 yrs	21.3 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	22.8 yrs	20.8 yrs
181	Eswatini	22.5 yrs	19.9 yrs
182	Tajikistan	22.2 yrs	20.7 yrs
183	Lesotho	21.9 yrs	20.4 yrs
184	Timor-Leste	21.7 yrs	18.7 yrs
185	Gabon	21.5 yrs	21.2 yrs
186	Ghana	21.4 yrs	19.8 yrs
187	Namibia	21.3 yrs	20.4 yrs
188	Iraq	20.9 yrs	18.5 yrs
189	Equatorial Guinea	20.9 yrs	20.9 yrs
190	Tonga	20.8 yrs	20.7 yrs
191	Solomon Islands	20.7 yrs	18.9 yrs
192	Comoros	20.6 yrs	18.8 yrs
193	Pakistan	20.6 yrs	19.2 yrs
194	Marshall Islands	20.4 yrs	20.5 yrs
195	Vanuatu	20.3 yrs	20.1 yrs
196	Nauru	20.2 yrs	20.5 yrs
197	State of Palestine	20.1 yrs	18.6 yrs
198	Kenya	20.0 yrs	17.6 yrs
199	Rwanda	19.9 yrs	18.3 yrs
200	Samoa	19.8 yrs	20.1 yrs
201	Sierra Leone	19.7 yrs	17.7 yrs
202	Senegal	19.6 yrs	17.5 yrs
203	Sao Tome and Principe	19.5 yrs	17.9 yrs
204	Guinea-Bissau	19.4 yrs	17.6 yrs
205	Eritrea	19.2 yrs	17.4 yrs
206	Madagascar	19.2 yrs	17.5 yrs
207	Ethiopia	19.1 yrs	17.0 yrs
208	Togo	19.1 yrs	18.2 yrs
209	Liberia	18.8 yrs	17.6 yrs
210	South Sudan	18.7 yrs	17.5 yrs
211	Gambia	18.6 yrs	16.9 yrs
212	Congo	18.6 yrs	18.2 yrs
213	Sudan	18.5 yrs	16.8 yrs
214	Yemen	18.4 yrs	17.7 yrs
215	Guinea	18.3 yrs	16.9 yrs
216	Côte d'Ivoire	18.3 yrs	17.9 yrs
217	Cameroon	18.1 yrs	17.2 yrs
218	Zimbabwe	18.1 yrs	16.7 yrs
219	Nigeria	18.1 yrs	16.7 yrs
220	Benin	18.1 yrs	17.1 yrs
221	Malawi	18.1 yrs	16.0 yrs
222	Zambia	17.9 yrs	16.1 yrs
223	Burkina Faso	17.7 yrs	16.0 yrs
224	United Republic of Tanzania	17.5 yrs	16.4 yrs
225	Mauritania	17.4 yrs	16.7 yrs
226	Afghanistan	17.3 yrs	15.5 yrs
227	Mayotte	17.1 yrs	16.4 yrs
228	Uganda	16.9 yrs	14.8 yrs
229	Angola	16.6 yrs	16.3 yrs
230	Mozambique	16.5 yrs	15.8 yrs
231	Burundi	16.4 yrs	15.5 yrs
232	Democratic Republic of the Congo	15.8 yrs	15.8 yrs
233	Chad	15.8 yrs	14.6 yrs
234	Mali	15.7 yrs	14.9 yrs
235	Somalia	15.6 yrs	15.0 yrs
236	Niger	15.6 yrs	14.3 yrs
237	Central African Republic	14.5 yrs	14.4 yrs

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