Median age by country, 2028

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

◀▶2028

#	Country / area	Median age	2018
1	Holy See	52.5 yrs	60.4 yrs
2	Monaco	52.0 yrs	54.5 yrs
3	Saint Helena	51.3 yrs	47.8 yrs
4	Japan	50.9 yrs	46.9 yrs
5	Martinique	50.8 yrs	46.2 yrs
6	San Marino	49.9 yrs	44.8 yrs
7	Italy	49.3 yrs	45.6 yrs
8	China, Hong Kong SAR	49.2 yrs	43.2 yrs
9	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	48.3 yrs	43.7 yrs
10	Greece	47.8 yrs	43.7 yrs
11	Guadeloupe	47.8 yrs	43.0 yrs
12	Portugal	47.8 yrs	44.2 yrs
13	Republic of Korea	47.3 yrs	41.6 yrs
14	Spain	47.2 yrs	42.8 yrs
15	Bermuda	47.2 yrs	43.5 yrs
16	Puerto Rico	47.0 yrs	43.1 yrs
17	Bosnia and Herzegovina	47.0 yrs	42.8 yrs
18	Isle of Man	46.7 yrs	44.5 yrs
19	China, Taiwan Province of China	46.6 yrs	40.6 yrs
20	Saint Martin (French part)	46.4 yrs	35.3 yrs
21	Croatia	46.1 yrs	43.6 yrs
22	Germany	46.0 yrs	44.9 yrs
23	Slovenia	45.8 yrs	42.8 yrs
24	Bulgaria	45.5 yrs	43.3 yrs
25	Andorra	45.1 yrs	41.3 yrs
26	Serbia	45.1 yrs	42.9 yrs
27	Liechtenstein	45.1 yrs	43.2 yrs
28	United States Virgin Islands	45.0 yrs	43.2 yrs
29	Guernsey	44.9 yrs	43.4 yrs
30	Czechia	44.8 yrs	41.6 yrs
31	Austria	44.5 yrs	42.3 yrs
32	Hungary	44.5 yrs	41.8 yrs
33	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	44.5 yrs	39.1 yrs
34	Jersey	44.4 yrs	41.7 yrs
35	Latvia	44.4 yrs	42.5 yrs
36	Poland	44.0 yrs	39.4 yrs
37	Estonia	43.9 yrs	41.0 yrs
38	Finland	43.9 yrs	41.8 yrs
39	Switzerland	43.8 yrs	41.5 yrs
40	Romania	43.7 yrs	41.3 yrs
41	Slovakia	43.6 yrs	39.4 yrs
42	Lithuania	43.2 yrs	43.0 yrs
43	Cuba	43.1 yrs	40.8 yrs
44	Ukraine	42.8 yrs	40.2 yrs
45	France	42.7 yrs	40.9 yrs
46	Belarus	42.7 yrs	39.0 yrs
47	Montserrat	42.6 yrs	39.9 yrs
48	Belgium	42.5 yrs	40.7 yrs
49	Malta	42.4 yrs	39.2 yrs
50	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	42.3 yrs	38.9 yrs
51	Aruba	42.2 yrs	39.8 yrs
52	North Macedonia	42.1 yrs	38.3 yrs
53	Thailand	41.8 yrs	37.2 yrs
54	China	41.8 yrs	36.6 yrs
55	Netherlands	41.7 yrs	41.5 yrs
56	China, Macao SAR	41.7 yrs	36.5 yrs
57	Denmark	41.4 yrs	40.9 yrs
58	Russian Federation	41.4 yrs	38.2 yrs
59	Canada	41.3 yrs	39.8 yrs
60	Montenegro	41.0 yrs	38.0 yrs
61	Sweden	40.9 yrs	39.6 yrs
62	Norway	40.7 yrs	38.6 yrs
63	United Kingdom	40.5 yrs	39.0 yrs
64	Turks and Caicos Islands	40.5 yrs	36.3 yrs
65	Luxembourg	40.3 yrs	38.5 yrs
66	British Virgin Islands	40.3 yrs	35.8 yrs
67	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	40.1 yrs	39.2 yrs
68	Barbados	40.1 yrs	37.7 yrs
69	Northern Mariana Islands	40.1 yrs	33.1 yrs
70	Anguilla	40.0 yrs	35.0 yrs
71	Cyprus	40.0 yrs	35.7 yrs
72	Cook Islands	40.0 yrs	32.1 yrs
73	Republic of Moldova	40.0 yrs	36.1 yrs
74	Cayman Islands	39.8 yrs	36.1 yrs
75	Ireland	39.6 yrs	36.5 yrs
76	Curaçao	39.5 yrs	37.4 yrs
77	Palau	39.5 yrs	36.1 yrs
78	Wallis and Futuna Islands	39.4 yrs	34.5 yrs
79	Saint Barthélemy	39.4 yrs	37.6 yrs
80	Trinidad and Tobago	39.2 yrs	34.3 yrs
81	Mauritius	39.2 yrs	35.2 yrs
82	United States of America	39.1 yrs	36.8 yrs
83	Australia	39.0 yrs	36.4 yrs
84	Réunion	39.0 yrs	35.4 yrs
85	Albania	38.9 yrs	34.3 yrs
86	Gibraltar	38.9 yrs	39.2 yrs
87	New Zealand	38.5 yrs	36.2 yrs
88	Chile	38.4 yrs	34.1 yrs
89	Armenia	38.3 yrs	33.9 yrs
90	Georgia	38.1 yrs	36.2 yrs
91	Singapore	37.9 yrs	34.0 yrs
92	French Polynesia	37.9 yrs	31.6 yrs
93	Antigua and Barbuda	37.5 yrs	33.4 yrs
94	Uruguay	37.4 yrs	34.5 yrs
95	Dominica	37.4 yrs	33.5 yrs
96	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	37.4 yrs	34.9 yrs
97	Iceland	37.3 yrs	35.4 yrs
98	Saint Kitts and Nevis	37.3 yrs	33.2 yrs
99	Faroe Islands	37.3 yrs	37.9 yrs
100	Costa Rica	36.8 yrs	31.5 yrs
101	Bahamas	36.4 yrs	32.9 yrs
102	Greenland	36.3 yrs	33.4 yrs
103	Brazil	36.1 yrs	31.8 yrs
104	Saint Lucia	36.0 yrs	31.7 yrs
105	Grenada	35.9 yrs	30.9 yrs
106	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	35.6 yrs	30.3 yrs
107	New Caledonia	35.5 yrs	32.0 yrs
108	Seychelles	35.3 yrs	31.9 yrs
109	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	35.3 yrs	32.2 yrs
110	Azerbaijan	35.0 yrs	30.3 yrs
111	Maldives	35.0 yrs	28.0 yrs
112	Kuwait	34.9 yrs	35.4 yrs
113	Türkiye	34.9 yrs	30.4 yrs
114	Viet Nam	34.8 yrs	30.2 yrs
115	Jamaica	34.5 yrs	29.3 yrs
116	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	34.2 yrs	28.7 yrs
117	Sri Lanka	34.2 yrs	31.6 yrs
118	Tunisia	34.2 yrs	30.4 yrs
119	Argentina	34.1 yrs	30.5 yrs
120	Brunei Darussalam	34.1 yrs	29.6 yrs
121	Colombia	33.9 yrs	29.7 yrs
122	Niue	33.8 yrs	36.0 yrs
123	Bahrain	33.6 yrs	30.7 yrs
124	Western Sahara	33.3 yrs	30.2 yrs
125	Qatar	33.2 yrs	30.8 yrs
126	Malaysia	32.2 yrs	27.8 yrs
127	Guam	32.0 yrs	30.5 yrs
128	Bhutan	32.0 yrs	26.5 yrs
129	United Arab Emirates	31.7 yrs	30.8 yrs
130	Peru	31.3 yrs	27.9 yrs
131	Indonesia	31.2 yrs	28.6 yrs
132	Panama	31.2 yrs	28.1 yrs
133	Myanmar	31.0 yrs	28.2 yrs
134	Morocco	30.8 yrs	27.5 yrs
135	Mexico	30.7 yrs	27.3 yrs
136	Ecuador	30.6 yrs	26.5 yrs
137	Cabo Verde	30.6 yrs	25.6 yrs
138	India	30.0 yrs	26.3 yrs
139	Oman	29.9 yrs	28.8 yrs
140	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	29.8 yrs	27.4 yrs
141	Kazakhstan	29.7 yrs	28.9 yrs
142	Saudi Arabia	29.7 yrs	28.3 yrs
143	Lebanon	29.6 yrs	28.3 yrs
144	Suriname	29.5 yrs	27.1 yrs
145	Israel	29.3 yrs	28.9 yrs
146	El Salvador	29.3 yrs	24.9 yrs
147	Dominican Republic	29.3 yrs	26.1 yrs
148	South Africa	29.3 yrs	26.5 yrs
149	Algeria	29.2 yrs	27.2 yrs
150	American Samoa	29.1 yrs	25.8 yrs
151	Fiji	28.6 yrs	26.5 yrs
152	Libya	28.6 yrs	26.0 yrs
153	Belize	28.3 yrs	23.9 yrs
154	Tokelau	28.2 yrs	25.7 yrs
155	Turkmenistan	27.9 yrs	24.9 yrs
156	Paraguay	27.9 yrs	24.9 yrs
157	Philippines	27.4 yrs	23.3 yrs
158	Guyana	27.1 yrs	24.3 yrs
159	Nicaragua	27.0 yrs	23.6 yrs
160	Bangladesh	27.0 yrs	24.2 yrs
161	Mongolia	27.0 yrs	26.3 yrs
162	Uzbekistan	26.9 yrs	26.1 yrs
163	Cambodia	26.7 yrs	24.4 yrs
164	Nepal	26.4 yrs	22.1 yrs
165	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	26.1 yrs	23.5 yrs
166	Lao People's Democratic Republic	25.9 yrs	22.8 yrs
167	Kyrgyzstan	25.7 yrs	24.3 yrs
168	Djibouti	25.7 yrs	22.9 yrs
169	Jordan	25.4 yrs	22.5 yrs
170	Honduras	25.3 yrs	21.9 yrs
171	Egypt	25.1 yrs	23.2 yrs
172	French Guiana	25.0 yrs	24.6 yrs
173	Haiti	24.9 yrs	22.3 yrs
174	Syrian Arab Republic	24.7 yrs	19.1 yrs
175	Guatemala	24.6 yrs	20.9 yrs
176	Botswana	24.3 yrs	21.9 yrs
177	Tuvalu	23.9 yrs	24.3 yrs
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	23.9 yrs	21.7 yrs
179	Papua New Guinea	23.5 yrs	21.4 yrs
180	Eswatini	23.2 yrs	20.7 yrs
181	Kiribati	23.1 yrs	21.8 yrs
182	Timor-Leste	22.9 yrs	19.6 yrs
183	Lesotho	22.6 yrs	20.7 yrs
184	Tajikistan	22.5 yrs	21.1 yrs
185	Ghana	22.0 yrs	20.1 yrs
186	Namibia	21.9 yrs	20.7 yrs
187	Gabon	21.7 yrs	21.4 yrs
188	Iraq	21.6 yrs	19.1 yrs
189	Solomon Islands	21.4 yrs	19.3 yrs
190	Tonga	21.3 yrs	20.9 yrs
191	Pakistan	21.1 yrs	19.5 yrs
192	Comoros	21.0 yrs	19.2 yrs
193	Equatorial Guinea	21.0 yrs	21.1 yrs
194	Kenya	20.8 yrs	18.3 yrs
195	State of Palestine	20.8 yrs	19.0 yrs
196	Marshall Islands	20.8 yrs	21.2 yrs
197	Rwanda	20.8 yrs	18.6 yrs
198	Vanuatu	20.6 yrs	20.2 yrs
199	Sierra Leone	20.4 yrs	18.2 yrs
200	Nauru	20.4 yrs	20.8 yrs
201	Senegal	20.3 yrs	18.0 yrs
202	Sao Tome and Principe	20.2 yrs	18.2 yrs
203	Eritrea	20.1 yrs	17.6 yrs
204	Guinea-Bissau	20.1 yrs	18.0 yrs
205	Samoa	20.0 yrs	20.4 yrs
206	Ethiopia	19.8 yrs	17.7 yrs
207	Madagascar	19.7 yrs	18.1 yrs
208	South Sudan	19.7 yrs	16.1 yrs
209	Togo	19.5 yrs	18.3 yrs
210	Liberia	19.5 yrs	17.7 yrs
211	Gambia	19.4 yrs	17.3 yrs
212	Congo	19.1 yrs	18.1 yrs
213	Sudan	19.1 yrs	17.5 yrs
214	Guinea	18.9 yrs	17.3 yrs
215	Côte d'Ivoire	18.9 yrs	17.8 yrs
216	Malawi	18.9 yrs	16.5 yrs
217	Nigeria	18.8 yrs	16.9 yrs
218	Yemen	18.7 yrs	17.9 yrs
219	Zimbabwe	18.7 yrs	17.0 yrs
220	Cameroon	18.6 yrs	17.3 yrs
221	Zambia	18.6 yrs	16.6 yrs
222	Burkina Faso	18.6 yrs	16.3 yrs
223	Benin	18.5 yrs	17.3 yrs
224	United Republic of Tanzania	17.9 yrs	16.8 yrs
225	Afghanistan	17.8 yrs	16.1 yrs
226	Mayotte	17.8 yrs	16.5 yrs
227	Mauritania	17.8 yrs	16.7 yrs
228	Uganda	17.5 yrs	15.5 yrs
229	Burundi	17.2 yrs	15.0 yrs
230	Angola	17.0 yrs	16.3 yrs
231	Mozambique	16.9 yrs	16.0 yrs
232	Mali	16.2 yrs	14.9 yrs
233	Niger	16.1 yrs	14.6 yrs
234	Democratic Republic of the Congo	16.0 yrs	15.9 yrs
235	Chad	15.8 yrs	14.8 yrs
236	Somalia	15.7 yrs	15.2 yrs
237	Central African Republic	14.9 yrs	14.4 yrs

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