Median age by country, 2031

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

◀▶2031

#	Country / area	Median age	2021
1	Japan	51.8 yrs	48.1 yrs
2	Martinique	51.3 yrs	47.8 yrs
3	San Marino	51.1 yrs	46.3 yrs
4	Saint Helena	51.1 yrs	49.9 yrs
5	China, Hong Kong SAR	51.1 yrs	45.0 yrs
6	Holy See	50.4 yrs	60.2 yrs
7	Italy	50.3 yrs	46.8 yrs
8	Monaco	50.0 yrs	55.3 yrs
9	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	49.4 yrs	45.6 yrs
10	Saint Martin (French part)	49.1 yrs	38.1 yrs
11	Republic of Korea	49.0 yrs	43.4 yrs
12	Greece	48.8 yrs	44.9 yrs
13	Bermuda	48.5 yrs	44.3 yrs
14	Portugal	48.5 yrs	45.4 yrs
15	Guadeloupe	48.4 yrs	45.0 yrs
16	Spain	48.4 yrs	43.9 yrs
17	China, Taiwan Province of China	48.4 yrs	42.3 yrs
18	Puerto Rico	48.1 yrs	44.9 yrs
19	Bosnia and Herzegovina	48.1 yrs	44.2 yrs
20	Isle of Man	47.3 yrs	45.3 yrs
21	Croatia	46.9 yrs	44.4 yrs
22	Slovenia	46.8 yrs	43.1 yrs
23	Andorra	46.5 yrs	42.5 yrs
24	Germany	46.5 yrs	44.9 yrs
25	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	46.3 yrs	40.4 yrs
26	Bulgaria	46.2 yrs	44.0 yrs
27	Serbia	45.9 yrs	43.5 yrs
28	Guernsey	45.6 yrs	43.8 yrs
29	Czechia	45.6 yrs	42.6 yrs
30	Liechtenstein	45.6 yrs	43.8 yrs
31	Poland	45.5 yrs	40.5 yrs
32	Austria	45.4 yrs	42.7 yrs
33	Latvia	45.3 yrs	42.9 yrs
34	Jersey	45.2 yrs	42.6 yrs
35	Estonia	45.0 yrs	41.5 yrs
36	United States Virgin Islands	45.0 yrs	44.5 yrs
37	Slovakia	44.9 yrs	40.5 yrs
38	Hungary	44.8 yrs	42.7 yrs
39	Switzerland	44.7 yrs	41.7 yrs
40	Finland	44.5 yrs	42.3 yrs
41	Romania	44.4 yrs	42.2 yrs
42	Ukraine	44.2 yrs	41.1 yrs
43	Cuba	44.2 yrs	41.4 yrs
44	Lithuania	44.1 yrs	43.0 yrs
45	Belarus	44.0 yrs	39.9 yrs
46	Malta	43.8 yrs	39.2 yrs
47	China, Macao SAR	43.8 yrs	37.4 yrs
48	Montserrat	43.6 yrs	41.0 yrs
49	China	43.5 yrs	38.0 yrs
50	France	43.2 yrs	41.4 yrs
51	Belgium	43.2 yrs	40.9 yrs
52	North Macedonia	43.2 yrs	39.6 yrs
53	Thailand	42.9 yrs	38.7 yrs
54	Aruba	42.8 yrs	40.6 yrs
55	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	42.8 yrs	41.0 yrs
56	Russian Federation	42.6 yrs	38.9 yrs
57	Cook Islands	42.2 yrs	33.3 yrs
58	Netherlands	42.1 yrs	41.5 yrs
59	Canada	41.9 yrs	40.1 yrs
60	Montenegro	41.9 yrs	38.9 yrs
61	British Virgin Islands	41.9 yrs	36.7 yrs
62	Turks and Caicos Islands	41.8 yrs	37.5 yrs
63	Denmark	41.7 yrs	41.2 yrs
64	Sweden	41.6 yrs	39.6 yrs
65	Norway	41.6 yrs	39.3 yrs
66	Cyprus	41.4 yrs	36.9 yrs
67	Northern Mariana Islands	41.4 yrs	34.3 yrs
68	Luxembourg	41.2 yrs	38.6 yrs
69	Anguilla	41.1 yrs	37.0 yrs
70	Republic of Moldova	41.1 yrs	37.2 yrs
71	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	41.0 yrs	39.7 yrs
72	Cayman Islands	41.0 yrs	37.1 yrs
73	United Kingdom	40.8 yrs	39.3 yrs
74	Barbados	40.7 yrs	38.4 yrs
75	Albania	40.6 yrs	35.5 yrs
76	Mauritius	40.6 yrs	36.2 yrs
77	Trinidad and Tobago	40.5 yrs	35.8 yrs
78	Palau	40.4 yrs	37.1 yrs
79	Curaçao	40.3 yrs	37.7 yrs
80	Wallis and Futuna Islands	40.2 yrs	36.1 yrs
81	Saint Barthélemy	40.1 yrs	38.5 yrs
82	Ireland	40.0 yrs	37.6 yrs
83	Armenia	40.0 yrs	35.5 yrs
84	Chile	40.0 yrs	35.1 yrs
85	United States of America	39.8 yrs	37.5 yrs
86	Australia	39.8 yrs	37.3 yrs
87	Réunion	39.8 yrs	36.6 yrs
88	Singapore	39.6 yrs	34.8 yrs
89	French Polynesia	39.6 yrs	33.6 yrs
90	New Zealand	39.5 yrs	36.8 yrs
91	Gibraltar	39.1 yrs	39.0 yrs
92	Georgia	39.0 yrs	36.6 yrs
93	Antigua and Barbuda	38.8 yrs	34.7 yrs
94	Dominica	38.6 yrs	34.9 yrs
95	Iceland	38.5 yrs	35.7 yrs
96	Uruguay	38.5 yrs	35.3 yrs
97	Saint Kitts and Nevis	38.4 yrs	34.6 yrs
98	Costa Rica	38.3 yrs	33.0 yrs
99	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	38.3 yrs	35.6 yrs
100	Faroe Islands	37.6 yrs	37.8 yrs
101	Greenland	37.5 yrs	33.8 yrs
102	Bahamas	37.5 yrs	33.9 yrs
103	Saint Lucia	37.4 yrs	32.9 yrs
104	Brazil	37.3 yrs	33.1 yrs
105	Maldives	37.3 yrs	29.7 yrs
106	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	37.2 yrs	31.8 yrs
107	Grenada	37.2 yrs	32.4 yrs
108	Seychelles	36.7 yrs	33.0 yrs
109	Azerbaijan	36.3 yrs	31.6 yrs
110	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	36.3 yrs	33.4 yrs
111	Türkiye	36.3 yrs	31.6 yrs
112	New Caledonia	36.3 yrs	33.3 yrs
113	Jamaica	36.1 yrs	30.7 yrs
114	Viet Nam	36.1 yrs	31.5 yrs
115	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	35.6 yrs	30.2 yrs
116	Tunisia	35.5 yrs	31.4 yrs
117	Brunei Darussalam	35.5 yrs	30.8 yrs
118	Argentina	35.3 yrs	31.4 yrs
119	Colombia	35.3 yrs	30.8 yrs
120	Kuwait	35.0 yrs	34.8 yrs
121	Sri Lanka	35.0 yrs	32.3 yrs
122	Western Sahara	33.8 yrs	31.3 yrs
123	Bahrain	33.7 yrs	30.6 yrs
124	Bhutan	33.5 yrs	28.2 yrs
125	Malaysia	33.4 yrs	29.1 yrs
126	Qatar	33.0 yrs	32.0 yrs
127	Niue	32.9 yrs	36.5 yrs
128	Guam	32.5 yrs	30.9 yrs
129	Peru	32.4 yrs	28.8 yrs
130	Panama	32.2 yrs	29.0 yrs
131	Indonesia	32.1 yrs	29.3 yrs
132	Cabo Verde	32.0 yrs	26.8 yrs
133	Ecuador	31.9 yrs	27.6 yrs
134	Myanmar	31.9 yrs	29.0 yrs
135	United Arab Emirates	31.8 yrs	30.9 yrs
136	Mexico	31.8 yrs	28.2 yrs
137	Morocco	31.7 yrs	28.6 yrs
138	India	31.1 yrs	27.4 yrs
139	El Salvador	30.8 yrs	26.1 yrs
140	Suriname	30.5 yrs	27.7 yrs
141	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	30.4 yrs	28.6 yrs
142	Lebanon	30.4 yrs	27.9 yrs
143	Dominican Republic	30.3 yrs	27.0 yrs
144	Oman	29.9 yrs	28.7 yrs
145	Saudi Arabia	29.7 yrs	28.5 yrs
146	Belize	29.7 yrs	25.1 yrs
147	South Africa	29.7 yrs	27.6 yrs
148	Algeria	29.6 yrs	27.8 yrs
149	Libya	29.6 yrs	26.7 yrs
150	Israel	29.5 yrs	29.1 yrs
151	Kazakhstan	29.4 yrs	29.3 yrs
152	American Samoa	29.3 yrs	27.2 yrs
153	Tokelau	29.1 yrs	26.4 yrs
154	Fiji	29.1 yrs	27.3 yrs
155	Turkmenistan	28.8 yrs	25.6 yrs
156	Paraguay	28.7 yrs	25.8 yrs
157	Philippines	28.6 yrs	24.5 yrs
158	Nicaragua	28.1 yrs	24.6 yrs
159	Bangladesh	28.0 yrs	24.7 yrs
160	Guyana	27.8 yrs	25.1 yrs
161	Nepal	27.5 yrs	24.0 yrs
162	Cambodia	27.3 yrs	25.4 yrs
163	Mongolia	26.9 yrs	26.5 yrs
164	Lao People's Democratic Republic	26.9 yrs	23.7 yrs
165	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	26.8 yrs	24.2 yrs
166	Uzbekistan	26.7 yrs	26.7 yrs
167	Djibouti	26.6 yrs	23.8 yrs
168	Honduras	26.3 yrs	22.9 yrs
169	Jordan	26.2 yrs	23.6 yrs
170	Kyrgyzstan	26.0 yrs	24.8 yrs
171	Syrian Arab Republic	25.9 yrs	21.0 yrs
172	Egypt	25.8 yrs	23.6 yrs
173	Guatemala	25.8 yrs	21.9 yrs
174	Haiti	25.7 yrs	23.0 yrs
175	French Guiana	25.3 yrs	25.2 yrs
176	Botswana	25.2 yrs	22.4 yrs
177	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	24.5 yrs	22.4 yrs
178	Papua New Guinea	24.2 yrs	21.9 yrs
179	Timor-Leste	24.1 yrs	20.3 yrs
180	Eswatini	23.9 yrs	21.5 yrs
181	Tuvalu	23.8 yrs	24.3 yrs
182	Kiribati	23.4 yrs	22.4 yrs
183	Lesotho	23.2 yrs	21.1 yrs
184	Tajikistan	22.9 yrs	21.6 yrs
185	Ghana	22.6 yrs	20.6 yrs
186	Iraq	22.4 yrs	19.8 yrs
187	Namibia	22.4 yrs	20.8 yrs
188	Gabon	22.0 yrs	21.5 yrs
189	Solomon Islands	22.0 yrs	19.8 yrs
190	Tonga	21.8 yrs	20.8 yrs
191	Pakistan	21.8 yrs	20.0 yrs
192	Kenya	21.7 yrs	19.0 yrs
193	State of Palestine	21.6 yrs	19.4 yrs
194	Marshall Islands	21.5 yrs	21.3 yrs
195	Rwanda	21.5 yrs	19.0 yrs
196	Comoros	21.4 yrs	19.9 yrs
197	Equatorial Guinea	21.3 yrs	21.1 yrs
198	Sierra Leone	21.2 yrs	18.8 yrs
199	Nauru	21.2 yrs	20.7 yrs
200	Vanuatu	21.1 yrs	20.1 yrs
201	Senegal	21.0 yrs	18.6 yrs
202	Eritrea	20.9 yrs	18.2 yrs
203	Sao Tome and Principe	20.9 yrs	18.7 yrs
204	Guinea-Bissau	20.8 yrs	18.5 yrs
205	South Sudan	20.7 yrs	17.3 yrs
206	Samoa	20.5 yrs	20.3 yrs
207	Ethiopia	20.4 yrs	18.3 yrs
208	Madagascar	20.3 yrs	18.6 yrs
209	Gambia	20.2 yrs	17.8 yrs
210	Liberia	20.2 yrs	18.0 yrs
211	Togo	20.1 yrs	18.6 yrs
212	Malawi	19.8 yrs	17.1 yrs
213	Congo	19.7 yrs	18.1 yrs
214	Sudan	19.6 yrs	18.0 yrs
215	Guinea	19.5 yrs	17.7 yrs
216	Côte d'Ivoire	19.5 yrs	17.9 yrs
217	Zimbabwe	19.5 yrs	17.5 yrs
218	Nigeria	19.5 yrs	17.4 yrs
219	Burkina Faso	19.4 yrs	16.8 yrs
220	Zambia	19.3 yrs	17.1 yrs
221	Yemen	19.1 yrs	18.1 yrs
222	Cameroon	19.1 yrs	17.5 yrs
223	Benin	19.0 yrs	17.5 yrs
224	Mayotte	18.5 yrs	16.7 yrs
225	Afghanistan	18.4 yrs	16.6 yrs
226	Mauritania	18.4 yrs	16.9 yrs
227	Uganda	18.3 yrs	16.1 yrs
228	United Republic of Tanzania	18.3 yrs	17.0 yrs
229	Burundi	18.2 yrs	15.5 yrs
230	Angola	17.4 yrs	16.4 yrs
231	Mozambique	17.4 yrs	16.2 yrs
232	Mali	16.7 yrs	15.2 yrs
233	Niger	16.6 yrs	15.0 yrs
234	Democratic Republic of the Congo	16.3 yrs	15.8 yrs
235	Somalia	16.1 yrs	15.3 yrs
236	Chad	16.1 yrs	15.0 yrs
237	Central African Republic	15.3 yrs	14.4 yrs

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