Median age by country, 2027

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

◀▶2027

#	Country / area	Median age	2017
1	Holy See	54.3 yrs	60.6 yrs
2	Monaco	52.5 yrs	54.0 yrs
3	Saint Helena	51.1 yrs	47.0 yrs
4	Martinique	50.5 yrs	45.0 yrs
5	Japan	50.5 yrs	46.5 yrs
6	San Marino	49.5 yrs	44.3 yrs
7	Italy	49.0 yrs	45.2 yrs
8	China, Hong Kong SAR	48.5 yrs	42.7 yrs
9	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	48.0 yrs	43.4 yrs
10	Guadeloupe	47.6 yrs	42.1 yrs
11	Portugal	47.5 yrs	43.7 yrs
12	Greece	47.4 yrs	43.4 yrs
13	Spain	46.8 yrs	42.4 yrs
14	Bermuda	46.8 yrs	43.1 yrs
15	Republic of Korea	46.8 yrs	41.0 yrs
16	Puerto Rico	46.6 yrs	42.0 yrs
17	Bosnia and Herzegovina	46.6 yrs	42.2 yrs
18	Isle of Man	46.5 yrs	44.2 yrs
19	China, Taiwan Province of China	46.0 yrs	40.0 yrs
20	Croatia	45.8 yrs	43.2 yrs
21	Germany	45.8 yrs	44.9 yrs
22	Slovenia	45.4 yrs	42.6 yrs
23	Bulgaria	45.3 yrs	43.0 yrs
24	Saint Martin (French part)	45.2 yrs	33.8 yrs
25	United States Virgin Islands	45.0 yrs	42.4 yrs
26	Serbia	44.9 yrs	42.7 yrs
27	Liechtenstein	44.9 yrs	42.9 yrs
28	Andorra	44.7 yrs	40.8 yrs
29	Guernsey	44.7 yrs	43.1 yrs
30	Czechia	44.6 yrs	41.2 yrs
31	Hungary	44.3 yrs	41.4 yrs
32	Austria	44.2 yrs	42.1 yrs
33	Jersey	44.2 yrs	41.4 yrs
34	Latvia	44.1 yrs	42.3 yrs
35	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	43.9 yrs	38.7 yrs
36	Estonia	43.6 yrs	40.9 yrs
37	Finland	43.6 yrs	41.6 yrs
38	Romania	43.6 yrs	41.0 yrs
39	Switzerland	43.5 yrs	41.4 yrs
40	Poland	43.5 yrs	39.0 yrs
41	Slovakia	43.2 yrs	39.0 yrs
42	Lithuania	42.9 yrs	42.7 yrs
43	Cuba	42.8 yrs	40.4 yrs
44	France	42.6 yrs	40.7 yrs
45	Ukraine	42.3 yrs	39.8 yrs
46	Belgium	42.3 yrs	40.6 yrs
47	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	42.2 yrs	38.3 yrs
48	Belarus	42.2 yrs	38.8 yrs
49	Montserrat	42.2 yrs	39.6 yrs
50	Aruba	42.0 yrs	39.5 yrs
51	Malta	41.9 yrs	39.5 yrs
52	North Macedonia	41.8 yrs	37.8 yrs
53	Netherlands	41.6 yrs	41.4 yrs
54	Thailand	41.4 yrs	36.7 yrs
55	Denmark	41.3 yrs	40.7 yrs
56	China	41.2 yrs	36.3 yrs
57	Russian Federation	41.1 yrs	38.0 yrs
58	Canada	41.0 yrs	39.8 yrs
59	China, Macao SAR	41.0 yrs	36.3 yrs
60	Montenegro	40.8 yrs	37.6 yrs
61	Sweden	40.6 yrs	39.7 yrs
62	United Kingdom	40.4 yrs	38.9 yrs
63	Norway	40.4 yrs	38.4 yrs
64	Turks and Caicos Islands	40.1 yrs	36.0 yrs
65	Luxembourg	40.0 yrs	38.4 yrs
66	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	39.9 yrs	38.9 yrs
67	Barbados	39.9 yrs	37.5 yrs
68	British Virgin Islands	39.7 yrs	35.9 yrs
69	Anguilla	39.6 yrs	34.5 yrs
70	Cyprus	39.5 yrs	35.3 yrs
71	Cayman Islands	39.5 yrs	35.8 yrs
72	Republic of Moldova	39.5 yrs	35.8 yrs
73	Northern Mariana Islands	39.5 yrs	33.0 yrs
74	Ireland	39.4 yrs	36.1 yrs
75	Curaçao	39.2 yrs	39.2 yrs
76	Saint Barthélemy	39.2 yrs	37.4 yrs
77	Palau	39.2 yrs	35.7 yrs
78	Cook Islands	39.1 yrs	31.8 yrs
79	Wallis and Futuna Islands	39.0 yrs	33.9 yrs
80	United States of America	38.9 yrs	36.6 yrs
81	Australia	38.8 yrs	36.3 yrs
82	Gibraltar	38.8 yrs	39.2 yrs
83	Trinidad and Tobago	38.7 yrs	33.9 yrs
84	Mauritius	38.7 yrs	34.9 yrs
85	Réunion	38.7 yrs	34.5 yrs
86	Albania	38.4 yrs	33.9 yrs
87	New Zealand	38.3 yrs	36.2 yrs
88	Chile	37.9 yrs	33.9 yrs
89	Armenia	37.8 yrs	33.5 yrs
90	Georgia	37.8 yrs	36.1 yrs
91	Singapore	37.3 yrs	33.8 yrs
92	French Polynesia	37.3 yrs	30.9 yrs
93	Faroe Islands	37.2 yrs	38.1 yrs
94	Antigua and Barbuda	37.1 yrs	32.9 yrs
95	Uruguay	37.1 yrs	34.3 yrs
96	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	37.1 yrs	34.6 yrs
97	Dominica	37.0 yrs	33.0 yrs
98	Iceland	36.9 yrs	35.3 yrs
99	Saint Kitts and Nevis	36.9 yrs	32.7 yrs
100	Costa Rica	36.2 yrs	31.1 yrs
101	Bahamas	36.0 yrs	32.6 yrs
102	Greenland	35.9 yrs	33.3 yrs
103	Brazil	35.7 yrs	31.4 yrs
104	Saint Lucia	35.5 yrs	31.3 yrs
105	Grenada	35.4 yrs	30.4 yrs
106	New Caledonia	35.2 yrs	31.6 yrs
107	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	35.1 yrs	29.7 yrs
108	Seychelles	35.0 yrs	31.6 yrs
109	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	35.0 yrs	31.7 yrs
110	Kuwait	34.8 yrs	34.6 yrs
111	Azerbaijan	34.6 yrs	30.1 yrs
112	Niue	34.5 yrs	35.7 yrs
113	Türkiye	34.4 yrs	30.1 yrs
114	Viet Nam	34.4 yrs	29.8 yrs
115	Maldives	34.2 yrs	27.5 yrs
116	Jamaica	33.9 yrs	28.8 yrs
117	Sri Lanka	33.9 yrs	31.3 yrs
118	Tunisia	33.8 yrs	30.1 yrs
119	Argentina	33.7 yrs	30.3 yrs
120	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	33.7 yrs	28.2 yrs
121	Brunei Darussalam	33.6 yrs	29.2 yrs
122	Bahrain	33.5 yrs	30.4 yrs
123	Colombia	33.4 yrs	29.4 yrs
124	Qatar	33.3 yrs	30.5 yrs
125	Western Sahara	33.1 yrs	29.8 yrs
126	Guam	31.8 yrs	30.2 yrs
127	Malaysia	31.8 yrs	27.5 yrs
128	United Arab Emirates	31.7 yrs	30.8 yrs
129	Bhutan	31.5 yrs	25.9 yrs
130	Indonesia	30.9 yrs	28.4 yrs
131	Panama	30.9 yrs	27.8 yrs
132	Peru	30.9 yrs	27.6 yrs
133	Myanmar	30.7 yrs	27.9 yrs
134	Mexico	30.4 yrs	26.9 yrs
135	Morocco	30.4 yrs	27.1 yrs
136	Ecuador	30.2 yrs	26.1 yrs
137	Cabo Verde	30.0 yrs	25.2 yrs
138	Oman	29.9 yrs	28.5 yrs
139	Kazakhstan	29.8 yrs	28.7 yrs
140	Saudi Arabia	29.7 yrs	28.1 yrs
141	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	29.7 yrs	27.0 yrs
142	India	29.6 yrs	26.0 yrs
143	Israel	29.3 yrs	28.9 yrs
144	Lebanon	29.3 yrs	28.4 yrs
145	Suriname	29.2 yrs	26.9 yrs
146	South Africa	29.1 yrs	26.1 yrs
147	American Samoa	29.1 yrs	25.3 yrs
148	Algeria	29.0 yrs	27.0 yrs
149	Dominican Republic	29.0 yrs	25.8 yrs
150	El Salvador	28.9 yrs	24.5 yrs
151	Fiji	28.5 yrs	26.2 yrs
152	Libya	28.3 yrs	25.8 yrs
153	Tokelau	27.8 yrs	25.6 yrs
154	Belize	27.8 yrs	23.5 yrs
155	Turkmenistan	27.6 yrs	24.7 yrs
156	Paraguay	27.6 yrs	24.6 yrs
157	Uzbekistan	27.0 yrs	25.8 yrs
158	Philippines	27.0 yrs	22.9 yrs
159	Mongolia	27.0 yrs	26.1 yrs
160	Guyana	26.8 yrs	24.0 yrs
161	Nicaragua	26.7 yrs	23.3 yrs
162	Bangladesh	26.6 yrs	24.0 yrs
163	Cambodia	26.5 yrs	24.0 yrs
164	Nepal	26.1 yrs	21.8 yrs
165	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	25.8 yrs	23.3 yrs
166	Kyrgyzstan	25.6 yrs	24.2 yrs
167	Lao People's Democratic Republic	25.6 yrs	22.5 yrs
168	Djibouti	25.4 yrs	22.6 yrs
169	Jordan	25.1 yrs	22.2 yrs
170	Egypt	24.9 yrs	23.1 yrs
171	Honduras	24.9 yrs	21.6 yrs
172	French Guiana	24.9 yrs	24.1 yrs
173	Haiti	24.6 yrs	22.0 yrs
174	Syrian Arab Republic	24.3 yrs	18.6 yrs
175	Guatemala	24.2 yrs	20.6 yrs
176	Tuvalu	24.0 yrs	24.2 yrs
177	Botswana	24.0 yrs	21.8 yrs
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	23.7 yrs	21.5 yrs
179	Papua New Guinea	23.2 yrs	21.2 yrs
180	Kiribati	23.1 yrs	21.6 yrs
181	Eswatini	22.9 yrs	20.4 yrs
182	Timor-Leste	22.5 yrs	19.3 yrs
183	Tajikistan	22.4 yrs	21.0 yrs
184	Lesotho	22.3 yrs	20.6 yrs
185	Ghana	21.8 yrs	20.0 yrs
186	Namibia	21.7 yrs	20.6 yrs
187	Gabon	21.6 yrs	21.4 yrs
188	Iraq	21.4 yrs	18.9 yrs
189	Solomon Islands	21.1 yrs	19.1 yrs
190	Tonga	21.1 yrs	20.8 yrs
191	Comoros	20.9 yrs	19.0 yrs
192	Pakistan	20.9 yrs	19.4 yrs
193	Equatorial Guinea	20.9 yrs	21.1 yrs
194	Kenya	20.6 yrs	18.1 yrs
195	Marshall Islands	20.6 yrs	21.0 yrs
196	Vanuatu	20.5 yrs	20.2 yrs
197	State of Palestine	20.5 yrs	18.9 yrs
198	Rwanda	20.5 yrs	18.5 yrs
199	Nauru	20.3 yrs	20.6 yrs
200	Sierra Leone	20.2 yrs	18.0 yrs
201	Senegal	20.1 yrs	17.8 yrs
202	Sao Tome and Principe	20.0 yrs	18.0 yrs
203	Samoa	19.9 yrs	20.3 yrs
204	Eritrea	19.8 yrs	17.5 yrs
205	Guinea-Bissau	19.8 yrs	17.8 yrs
206	Ethiopia	19.6 yrs	17.5 yrs
207	Madagascar	19.5 yrs	17.9 yrs
208	Togo	19.4 yrs	18.3 yrs
209	South Sudan	19.4 yrs	16.1 yrs
210	Liberia	19.2 yrs	17.6 yrs
211	Gambia	19.1 yrs	17.1 yrs
212	Sudan	19.0 yrs	17.2 yrs
213	Congo	18.9 yrs	18.1 yrs
214	Guinea	18.7 yrs	17.1 yrs
215	Côte d'Ivoire	18.7 yrs	17.8 yrs
216	Malawi	18.7 yrs	16.3 yrs
217	Yemen	18.6 yrs	17.9 yrs
218	Nigeria	18.6 yrs	16.8 yrs
219	Zimbabwe	18.5 yrs	16.9 yrs
220	Cameroon	18.4 yrs	17.3 yrs
221	Zambia	18.4 yrs	16.4 yrs
222	Benin	18.4 yrs	17.2 yrs
223	Burkina Faso	18.3 yrs	16.2 yrs
224	United Republic of Tanzania	17.7 yrs	16.7 yrs
225	Mauritania	17.7 yrs	16.7 yrs
226	Afghanistan	17.6 yrs	15.9 yrs
227	Mayotte	17.6 yrs	16.2 yrs
228	Uganda	17.3 yrs	15.2 yrs
229	Angola	16.9 yrs	16.3 yrs
230	Burundi	16.9 yrs	15.0 yrs
231	Mozambique	16.8 yrs	15.9 yrs
232	Mali	16.0 yrs	14.9 yrs
233	Democratic Republic of the Congo	15.9 yrs	15.9 yrs
234	Niger	15.9 yrs	14.5 yrs
235	Chad	15.8 yrs	14.7 yrs
236	Somalia	15.7 yrs	15.1 yrs
237	Central African Republic	14.8 yrs	14.4 yrs

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