Median age by country, 2036

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

◀▶2036

#	Country / area	Median age	2026
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	54.2 yrs	48.0 yrs
2	Japan	52.7 yrs	50.2 yrs
3	San Marino	52.1 yrs	49.1 yrs
4	Martinique	51.8 yrs	50.2 yrs
5	Republic of Korea	51.6 yrs	46.2 yrs
6	Italy	51.5 yrs	48.6 yrs
7	Saint Martin (French part)	51.5 yrs	43.9 yrs
8	Saint Helena	51.3 yrs	51.0 yrs
9	China, Taiwan Province of China	51.2 yrs	45.4 yrs
10	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	51.1 yrs	47.6 yrs
11	Bermuda	50.4 yrs	46.4 yrs
12	Greece	50.1 yrs	47.1 yrs
13	Spain	50.1 yrs	46.3 yrs
14	Puerto Rico	49.8 yrs	46.2 yrs
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	49.7 yrs	46.1 yrs
16	Portugal	49.2 yrs	47.2 yrs
17	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	48.9 yrs	43.4 yrs
18	Andorra	48.8 yrs	44.2 yrs
19	Guadeloupe	48.6 yrs	47.4 yrs
20	Slovenia	48.1 yrs	45.0 yrs
21	Croatia	47.9 yrs	45.5 yrs
22	Isle of Man	47.9 yrs	46.3 yrs
23	Poland	47.8 yrs	43.0 yrs
24	Monaco	47.5 yrs	53.1 yrs
25	Germany	47.4 yrs	45.7 yrs
26	Bulgaria	47.4 yrs	45.0 yrs
27	China, Macao SAR	47.3 yrs	40.3 yrs
28	Estonia	46.9 yrs	43.2 yrs
29	Serbia	46.9 yrs	44.6 yrs
30	Latvia	46.9 yrs	43.8 yrs
31	Austria	46.8 yrs	43.9 yrs
32	Guernsey	46.7 yrs	44.5 yrs
33	Slovakia	46.7 yrs	42.8 yrs
34	Czechia	46.7 yrs	44.3 yrs
35	Ukraine	46.6 yrs	41.8 yrs
36	China	46.4 yrs	40.6 yrs
37	Malta	46.3 yrs	41.5 yrs
38	Liechtenstein	46.3 yrs	44.7 yrs
39	Belarus	46.2 yrs	41.8 yrs
40	Cuba	46.1 yrs	42.5 yrs
41	Switzerland	46.1 yrs	43.2 yrs
42	Jersey	46.0 yrs	43.9 yrs
43	Lithuania	45.9 yrs	42.6 yrs
44	Holy See	45.8 yrs	56.2 yrs
45	Romania	45.8 yrs	43.5 yrs
46	Hungary	45.4 yrs	44.1 yrs
47	Finland	45.4 yrs	43.4 yrs
48	Montserrat	45.1 yrs	41.8 yrs
49	North Macedonia	44.8 yrs	41.4 yrs
50	Thailand	44.7 yrs	41.0 yrs
51	United States Virgin Islands	44.5 yrs	44.9 yrs
52	British Virgin Islands	44.3 yrs	39.1 yrs
53	Belgium	44.2 yrs	42.1 yrs
54	Cook Islands	44.0 yrs	38.1 yrs
55	Russian Federation	44.0 yrs	40.7 yrs
56	Cyprus	43.8 yrs	39.1 yrs
57	Albania	43.6 yrs	37.8 yrs
58	Aruba	43.5 yrs	41.7 yrs
59	Turks and Caicos Islands	43.5 yrs	39.6 yrs
60	France	43.5 yrs	42.5 yrs
61	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.1 yrs	42.0 yrs
62	Norway	43.1 yrs	40.1 yrs
63	Mauritius	43.1 yrs	38.3 yrs
64	Netherlands	43.0 yrs	41.5 yrs
65	Canada	43.0 yrs	40.8 yrs
66	Sweden	43.0 yrs	40.5 yrs
67	Montenegro	42.9 yrs	40.4 yrs
68	Luxembourg	42.8 yrs	39.8 yrs
69	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	42.7 yrs	39.7 yrs
70	Cayman Islands	42.7 yrs	39.1 yrs
71	Armenia	42.6 yrs	37.2 yrs
72	Anguilla	42.6 yrs	39.1 yrs
73	Republic of Moldova	42.6 yrs	39.1 yrs
74	Singapore	42.5 yrs	36.8 yrs
75	Chile	42.5 yrs	37.4 yrs
76	Trinidad and Tobago	42.5 yrs	38.2 yrs
77	Denmark	42.4 yrs	41.3 yrs
78	Curaçao	42.3 yrs	39.0 yrs
79	French Polynesia	42.2 yrs	36.7 yrs
80	Northern Mariana Islands	41.9 yrs	38.8 yrs
81	Palau	41.8 yrs	38.9 yrs
82	Barbados	41.8 yrs	39.7 yrs
83	United Kingdom	41.7 yrs	40.2 yrs
84	Maldives	41.1 yrs	33.4 yrs
85	Australia	40.9 yrs	38.5 yrs
86	Saint Barthélemy	40.9 yrs	39.1 yrs
87	New Zealand	40.9 yrs	38.0 yrs
88	Costa Rica	40.8 yrs	35.7 yrs
89	Iceland	40.7 yrs	36.5 yrs
90	Antigua and Barbuda	40.7 yrs	36.7 yrs
91	Ireland	40.6 yrs	39.2 yrs
92	United States of America	40.6 yrs	38.7 yrs
93	Wallis and Futuna Islands	40.6 yrs	38.6 yrs
94	Réunion	40.4 yrs	38.4 yrs
95	Uruguay	40.3 yrs	36.8 yrs
96	Dominica	40.3 yrs	36.6 yrs
97	Saint Kitts and Nevis	40.1 yrs	36.5 yrs
98	Gibraltar	39.9 yrs	38.8 yrs
99	Saint Lucia	39.9 yrs	35.1 yrs
100	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	39.9 yrs	36.8 yrs
101	Georgia	39.8 yrs	37.6 yrs
102	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	39.4 yrs	34.5 yrs
103	Greenland	39.3 yrs	35.5 yrs
104	Grenada	39.3 yrs	34.9 yrs
105	Bahamas	39.3 yrs	35.6 yrs
106	Brazil	39.3 yrs	35.3 yrs
107	Jamaica	39.0 yrs	33.3 yrs
108	Seychelles	39.0 yrs	34.6 yrs
109	Türkiye	38.6 yrs	33.9 yrs
110	Azerbaijan	37.7 yrs	34.1 yrs
111	Colombia	37.7 yrs	33.0 yrs
112	Faroe Islands	37.7 yrs	37.1 yrs
113	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	37.6 yrs	33.2 yrs
114	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	37.6 yrs	34.7 yrs
115	Brunei Darussalam	37.6 yrs	33.2 yrs
116	Viet Nam	37.6 yrs	33.9 yrs
117	New Caledonia	37.3 yrs	34.8 yrs
118	Tunisia	37.2 yrs	33.4 yrs
119	Argentina	37.1 yrs	33.3 yrs
120	Sri Lanka	36.4 yrs	33.6 yrs
121	Bhutan	35.8 yrs	31.0 yrs
122	Malaysia	35.4 yrs	31.4 yrs
123	Kuwait	34.9 yrs	34.8 yrs
124	Western Sahara	34.5 yrs	32.9 yrs
125	Cabo Verde	34.3 yrs	29.5 yrs
126	Peru	34.1 yrs	30.6 yrs
127	Ecuador	34.0 yrs	29.7 yrs
128	Bahrain	33.9 yrs	33.4 yrs
129	Panama	33.8 yrs	30.6 yrs
130	Mexico	33.7 yrs	30.0 yrs
131	Indonesia	33.3 yrs	30.7 yrs
132	El Salvador	33.2 yrs	28.4 yrs
133	Myanmar	33.2 yrs	30.4 yrs
134	India	33.1 yrs	29.2 yrs
135	Guam	33.1 yrs	31.6 yrs
136	Morocco	33.1 yrs	30.1 yrs
137	Qatar	32.2 yrs	33.4 yrs
138	United Arab Emirates	32.1 yrs	31.6 yrs
139	Suriname	32.1 yrs	28.9 yrs
140	Belize	32.1 yrs	27.3 yrs
141	Dominican Republic	32.0 yrs	28.7 yrs
142	Lebanon	31.9 yrs	29.0 yrs
143	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	31.6 yrs	29.5 yrs
144	Libya	31.3 yrs	28.0 yrs
145	Niue	31.1 yrs	35.1 yrs
146	American Samoa	30.8 yrs	29.1 yrs
147	Tokelau	30.7 yrs	27.6 yrs
148	Philippines	30.5 yrs	26.6 yrs
149	Algeria	30.4 yrs	28.8 yrs
150	South Africa	30.3 yrs	28.9 yrs
151	Saudi Arabia	30.1 yrs	29.7 yrs
152	Israel	30.0 yrs	29.3 yrs
153	Bangladesh	30.0 yrs	26.3 yrs
154	Fiji	30.0 yrs	28.3 yrs
155	Oman	29.9 yrs	29.8 yrs
156	Paraguay	29.9 yrs	27.3 yrs
157	Nicaragua	29.8 yrs	26.3 yrs
158	Nepal	29.5 yrs	25.7 yrs
159	Turkmenistan	29.4 yrs	27.3 yrs
160	Kazakhstan	29.1 yrs	29.7 yrs
161	Guyana	28.7 yrs	26.5 yrs
162	Cambodia	28.5 yrs	26.4 yrs
163	Lao People's Democratic Republic	28.5 yrs	25.3 yrs
164	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	28.2 yrs	25.5 yrs
165	Djibouti	28.0 yrs	25.2 yrs
166	Honduras	28.0 yrs	24.6 yrs
167	Syrian Arab Republic	27.7 yrs	23.8 yrs
168	Jordan	27.7 yrs	24.9 yrs
169	Guatemala	27.6 yrs	23.8 yrs
170	Mongolia	27.4 yrs	27.0 yrs
171	Haiti	27.1 yrs	24.4 yrs
172	Egypt	26.9 yrs	24.7 yrs
173	Kyrgyzstan	26.8 yrs	25.5 yrs
174	Uzbekistan	26.6 yrs	27.0 yrs
175	Botswana	26.6 yrs	23.7 yrs
176	French Guiana	26.4 yrs	24.9 yrs
177	Timor-Leste	25.9 yrs	22.1 yrs
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	25.6 yrs	23.5 yrs
179	Eswatini	25.3 yrs	22.7 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	25.3 yrs	23.0 yrs
181	Lesotho	24.6 yrs	22.1 yrs
182	Kiribati	24.4 yrs	23.0 yrs
183	Tuvalu	24.4 yrs	24.1 yrs
184	Tajikistan	24.0 yrs	22.4 yrs
185	Iraq	23.9 yrs	21.1 yrs
186	Ghana	23.8 yrs	21.6 yrs
187	Namibia	23.6 yrs	21.5 yrs
188	Solomon Islands	23.2 yrs	20.9 yrs
189	State of Palestine	23.2 yrs	20.3 yrs
190	Tonga	23.1 yrs	21.0 yrs
191	Pakistan	23.1 yrs	20.8 yrs
192	Marshall Islands	23.1 yrs	20.5 yrs
193	Kenya	23.0 yrs	20.3 yrs
194	Gabon	22.9 yrs	21.6 yrs
195	Nauru	22.7 yrs	20.2 yrs
196	Sierra Leone	22.5 yrs	19.9 yrs
197	Rwanda	22.5 yrs	20.2 yrs
198	Comoros	22.4 yrs	20.7 yrs
199	South Sudan	22.4 yrs	19.0 yrs
200	Senegal	22.3 yrs	19.8 yrs
201	Vanuatu	22.2 yrs	20.4 yrs
202	Guinea-Bissau	22.1 yrs	19.6 yrs
203	Equatorial Guinea	22.1 yrs	20.9 yrs
204	Eritrea	22.0 yrs	19.5 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	22.0 yrs	19.7 yrs
206	Gambia	21.8 yrs	18.8 yrs
207	Samoa	21.7 yrs	19.8 yrs
208	Liberia	21.5 yrs	19.0 yrs
209	Ethiopia	21.3 yrs	19.3 yrs
210	Madagascar	21.2 yrs	19.4 yrs
211	Malawi	21.1 yrs	18.4 yrs
212	Togo	21.0 yrs	19.2 yrs
213	Burkina Faso	21.0 yrs	18.0 yrs
214	Congo	20.8 yrs	18.7 yrs
215	Zimbabwe	20.8 yrs	18.3 yrs
216	Nigeria	20.7 yrs	18.4 yrs
217	Guinea	20.6 yrs	18.5 yrs
218	Côte d'Ivoire	20.5 yrs	18.5 yrs
219	Zambia	20.5 yrs	18.2 yrs
220	Sudan	20.5 yrs	18.8 yrs
221	Yemen	20.1 yrs	18.5 yrs
222	Cameroon	20.1 yrs	18.2 yrs
223	Benin	20.1 yrs	18.2 yrs
224	Mayotte	19.7 yrs	17.3 yrs
225	Uganda	19.6 yrs	17.1 yrs
226	Burundi	19.6 yrs	16.6 yrs
227	Afghanistan	19.5 yrs	17.4 yrs
228	Mauritania	19.3 yrs	17.5 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	19.0 yrs	17.6 yrs
230	Mozambique	18.4 yrs	16.6 yrs
231	Angola	18.3 yrs	16.7 yrs
232	Niger	17.7 yrs	15.7 yrs
233	Mali	17.5 yrs	15.9 yrs
234	Democratic Republic of the Congo	17.0 yrs	15.9 yrs
235	Somalia	17.0 yrs	15.6 yrs
236	Chad	16.8 yrs	15.7 yrs
237	Central African Republic	15.7 yrs	14.6 yrs

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