Median age by country, 2037

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

◀▶2037

#	Country / area	Median age	2027
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	54.8 yrs	48.5 yrs
2	Japan	52.8 yrs	50.5 yrs
3	San Marino	52.3 yrs	49.5 yrs
4	Republic of Korea	52.1 yrs	46.8 yrs
5	Martinique	51.8 yrs	50.5 yrs
6	China, Taiwan Province of China	51.7 yrs	46.0 yrs
7	Italy	51.6 yrs	49.0 yrs
8	Saint Martin (French part)	51.6 yrs	45.2 yrs
9	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	51.4 yrs	48.0 yrs
10	Saint Helena	51.3 yrs	51.1 yrs
11	Bermuda	50.7 yrs	46.8 yrs
12	Spain	50.4 yrs	46.8 yrs
13	Greece	50.2 yrs	47.4 yrs
14	Puerto Rico	50.1 yrs	46.6 yrs
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	50.0 yrs	46.6 yrs
16	Andorra	49.3 yrs	44.7 yrs
17	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	49.3 yrs	43.9 yrs
18	Portugal	49.2 yrs	47.5 yrs
19	Guadeloupe	48.5 yrs	47.6 yrs
20	Slovenia	48.3 yrs	45.4 yrs
21	Poland	48.2 yrs	43.5 yrs
22	China, Macao SAR	48.1 yrs	41.0 yrs
23	Croatia	48.0 yrs	45.8 yrs
24	Isle of Man	48.0 yrs	46.5 yrs
25	Bulgaria	47.7 yrs	45.3 yrs
26	Germany	47.6 yrs	45.8 yrs
27	Estonia	47.3 yrs	43.6 yrs
28	Latvia	47.3 yrs	44.1 yrs
29	Austria	47.1 yrs	44.2 yrs
30	Slovakia	47.1 yrs	43.2 yrs
31	Serbia	47.1 yrs	44.9 yrs
32	Ukraine	47.0 yrs	42.3 yrs
33	Monaco	47.0 yrs	52.5 yrs
34	China	47.0 yrs	41.2 yrs
35	Guernsey	46.9 yrs	44.7 yrs
36	Czechia	46.9 yrs	44.6 yrs
37	Malta	46.9 yrs	41.9 yrs
38	Cuba	46.5 yrs	42.8 yrs
39	Belarus	46.5 yrs	42.2 yrs
40	Switzerland	46.4 yrs	43.5 yrs
41	Liechtenstein	46.4 yrs	44.9 yrs
42	Lithuania	46.3 yrs	42.9 yrs
43	Jersey	46.1 yrs	44.2 yrs
44	Romania	46.0 yrs	43.6 yrs
45	Finland	45.6 yrs	43.6 yrs
46	Hungary	45.5 yrs	44.3 yrs
47	Montserrat	45.3 yrs	42.2 yrs
48	North Macedonia	45.1 yrs	41.8 yrs
49	Thailand	45.0 yrs	41.4 yrs
50	Holy See	45.0 yrs	54.3 yrs
51	British Virgin Islands	44.8 yrs	39.7 yrs
52	Belgium	44.4 yrs	42.3 yrs
53	United States Virgin Islands	44.4 yrs	45.0 yrs
54	Cyprus	44.2 yrs	39.5 yrs
55	Russian Federation	44.2 yrs	41.1 yrs
56	Albania	44.1 yrs	38.4 yrs
57	Cook Islands	44.0 yrs	39.1 yrs
58	Turks and Caicos Islands	43.8 yrs	40.1 yrs
59	Aruba	43.6 yrs	42.0 yrs
60	Mauritius	43.6 yrs	38.7 yrs
61	France	43.5 yrs	42.6 yrs
62	Norway	43.3 yrs	40.4 yrs
63	Netherlands	43.2 yrs	41.6 yrs
64	Canada	43.2 yrs	41.0 yrs
65	Sweden	43.2 yrs	40.6 yrs
66	Luxembourg	43.2 yrs	40.0 yrs
67	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	43.1 yrs	39.9 yrs
68	Singapore	43.1 yrs	37.3 yrs
69	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.1 yrs	42.2 yrs
70	Montenegro	43.1 yrs	40.8 yrs
71	Armenia	43.0 yrs	37.8 yrs
72	Cayman Islands	43.0 yrs	39.5 yrs
73	Chile	43.0 yrs	37.9 yrs
74	Anguilla	42.8 yrs	39.6 yrs
75	Trinidad and Tobago	42.8 yrs	38.7 yrs
76	Republic of Moldova	42.8 yrs	39.5 yrs
77	Curaçao	42.7 yrs	39.2 yrs
78	Denmark	42.6 yrs	41.3 yrs
79	French Polynesia	42.6 yrs	37.3 yrs
80	Barbados	42.0 yrs	39.9 yrs
81	Palau	41.9 yrs	39.2 yrs
82	United Kingdom	41.8 yrs	40.4 yrs
83	Maldives	41.8 yrs	34.2 yrs
84	Northern Mariana Islands	41.6 yrs	39.5 yrs
85	Costa Rica	41.3 yrs	36.2 yrs
86	Antigua and Barbuda	41.1 yrs	37.1 yrs
87	Australia	41.1 yrs	38.8 yrs
88	New Zealand	41.1 yrs	38.3 yrs
89	Iceland	41.0 yrs	36.9 yrs
90	Saint Barthélemy	41.0 yrs	39.2 yrs
91	Ireland	40.7 yrs	39.4 yrs
92	United States of America	40.7 yrs	38.9 yrs
93	Uruguay	40.6 yrs	37.1 yrs
94	Wallis and Futuna Islands	40.5 yrs	39.0 yrs
95	Dominica	40.5 yrs	37.0 yrs
96	Saint Kitts and Nevis	40.4 yrs	36.9 yrs
97	Saint Lucia	40.4 yrs	35.5 yrs
98	Réunion	40.4 yrs	38.7 yrs
99	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	40.2 yrs	37.1 yrs
100	Gibraltar	40.1 yrs	38.8 yrs
101	Georgia	39.9 yrs	37.8 yrs
102	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	39.8 yrs	35.1 yrs
103	Grenada	39.7 yrs	35.4 yrs
104	Bahamas	39.6 yrs	36.0 yrs
105	Brazil	39.6 yrs	35.7 yrs
106	Greenland	39.5 yrs	35.9 yrs
107	Jamaica	39.5 yrs	33.9 yrs
108	Seychelles	39.4 yrs	35.0 yrs
109	Türkiye	39.1 yrs	34.4 yrs
110	Colombia	38.1 yrs	33.4 yrs
111	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	38.0 yrs	33.7 yrs
112	Brunei Darussalam	38.0 yrs	33.6 yrs
113	Azerbaijan	37.8 yrs	34.6 yrs
114	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	37.8 yrs	35.0 yrs
115	Faroe Islands	37.7 yrs	37.2 yrs
116	Viet Nam	37.7 yrs	34.4 yrs
117	Tunisia	37.5 yrs	33.8 yrs
118	New Caledonia	37.5 yrs	35.2 yrs
119	Argentina	37.4 yrs	33.7 yrs
120	Sri Lanka	36.6 yrs	33.9 yrs
121	Bhutan	36.2 yrs	31.5 yrs
122	Malaysia	35.7 yrs	31.8 yrs
123	Kuwait	34.9 yrs	34.8 yrs
124	Cabo Verde	34.7 yrs	30.0 yrs
125	Western Sahara	34.7 yrs	33.1 yrs
126	Peru	34.5 yrs	30.9 yrs
127	Ecuador	34.4 yrs	30.2 yrs
128	Panama	34.1 yrs	30.9 yrs
129	Mexico	34.0 yrs	30.4 yrs
130	Bahrain	33.9 yrs	33.5 yrs
131	Indonesia	33.6 yrs	30.9 yrs
132	El Salvador	33.6 yrs	28.9 yrs
133	India	33.5 yrs	29.6 yrs
134	Myanmar	33.5 yrs	30.7 yrs
135	Morocco	33.4 yrs	30.4 yrs
136	Guam	33.2 yrs	31.8 yrs
137	Belize	32.5 yrs	27.8 yrs
138	Suriname	32.3 yrs	29.2 yrs
139	Dominican Republic	32.3 yrs	29.0 yrs
140	United Arab Emirates	32.2 yrs	31.7 yrs
141	Qatar	32.1 yrs	33.3 yrs
142	Lebanon	32.1 yrs	29.3 yrs
143	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	31.9 yrs	29.7 yrs
144	Libya	31.7 yrs	28.3 yrs
145	American Samoa	31.2 yrs	29.1 yrs
146	Niue	31.1 yrs	34.5 yrs
147	Tokelau	30.9 yrs	27.8 yrs
148	Philippines	30.9 yrs	27.0 yrs
149	Algeria	30.6 yrs	29.0 yrs
150	Bangladesh	30.4 yrs	26.6 yrs
151	South Africa	30.4 yrs	29.1 yrs
152	Saudi Arabia	30.3 yrs	29.7 yrs
153	Nicaragua	30.2 yrs	26.7 yrs
154	Paraguay	30.2 yrs	27.6 yrs
155	Fiji	30.2 yrs	28.5 yrs
156	Israel	30.1 yrs	29.3 yrs
157	Oman	30.0 yrs	29.9 yrs
158	Nepal	29.9 yrs	26.1 yrs
159	Turkmenistan	29.4 yrs	27.6 yrs
160	Kazakhstan	29.2 yrs	29.8 yrs
161	Guyana	28.9 yrs	26.8 yrs
162	Cambodia	28.8 yrs	26.5 yrs
163	Lao People's Democratic Republic	28.8 yrs	25.6 yrs
164	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	28.5 yrs	25.8 yrs
165	Djibouti	28.3 yrs	25.4 yrs
166	Honduras	28.3 yrs	24.9 yrs
167	Syrian Arab Republic	28.1 yrs	24.3 yrs
168	Jordan	28.1 yrs	25.1 yrs
169	Guatemala	28.0 yrs	24.2 yrs
170	Mongolia	27.7 yrs	27.0 yrs
171	Haiti	27.4 yrs	24.6 yrs
172	Egypt	27.1 yrs	24.9 yrs
173	Kyrgyzstan	27.0 yrs	25.6 yrs
174	Botswana	26.8 yrs	24.0 yrs
175	Uzbekistan	26.7 yrs	27.0 yrs
176	French Guiana	26.6 yrs	24.9 yrs
177	Timor-Leste	26.3 yrs	22.5 yrs
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	25.9 yrs	23.7 yrs
179	Eswatini	25.6 yrs	22.9 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	25.6 yrs	23.2 yrs
181	Lesotho	24.9 yrs	22.3 yrs
182	Kiribati	24.7 yrs	23.1 yrs
183	Tuvalu	24.6 yrs	24.0 yrs
184	Iraq	24.2 yrs	21.4 yrs
185	Tajikistan	24.2 yrs	22.4 yrs
186	Ghana	24.1 yrs	21.8 yrs
187	Namibia	23.9 yrs	21.7 yrs
188	State of Palestine	23.5 yrs	20.5 yrs
189	Solomon Islands	23.4 yrs	21.1 yrs
190	Tonga	23.4 yrs	21.1 yrs
191	Marshall Islands	23.4 yrs	20.6 yrs
192	Kenya	23.3 yrs	20.6 yrs
193	Pakistan	23.3 yrs	20.9 yrs
194	Gabon	23.1 yrs	21.6 yrs
195	Nauru	23.0 yrs	20.3 yrs
196	Sierra Leone	22.8 yrs	20.2 yrs
197	Rwanda	22.7 yrs	20.5 yrs
198	South Sudan	22.7 yrs	19.4 yrs
199	Comoros	22.6 yrs	20.9 yrs
200	Senegal	22.5 yrs	20.1 yrs
201	Guinea-Bissau	22.4 yrs	19.8 yrs
202	Vanuatu	22.4 yrs	20.5 yrs
203	Eritrea	22.3 yrs	19.8 yrs
204	Sao Tome and Principe	22.2 yrs	20.0 yrs
205	Equatorial Guinea	22.2 yrs	20.9 yrs
206	Gambia	22.1 yrs	19.1 yrs
207	Samoa	21.9 yrs	19.9 yrs
208	Liberia	21.7 yrs	19.2 yrs
209	Ethiopia	21.5 yrs	19.6 yrs
210	Madagascar	21.4 yrs	19.5 yrs
211	Malawi	21.4 yrs	18.7 yrs
212	Burkina Faso	21.3 yrs	18.3 yrs
213	Zimbabwe	21.1 yrs	18.5 yrs
214	Togo	21.1 yrs	19.4 yrs
215	Congo	21.0 yrs	18.9 yrs
216	Nigeria	21.0 yrs	18.6 yrs
217	Guinea	20.8 yrs	18.7 yrs
218	Côte d'Ivoire	20.7 yrs	18.7 yrs
219	Zambia	20.7 yrs	18.4 yrs
220	Sudan	20.7 yrs	19.0 yrs
221	Yemen	20.4 yrs	18.6 yrs
222	Cameroon	20.3 yrs	18.4 yrs
223	Benin	20.3 yrs	18.4 yrs
224	Mayotte	19.9 yrs	17.6 yrs
225	Uganda	19.8 yrs	17.3 yrs
226	Burundi	19.8 yrs	16.9 yrs
227	Afghanistan	19.7 yrs	17.6 yrs
228	Mauritania	19.5 yrs	17.7 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	19.2 yrs	17.7 yrs
230	Mozambique	18.6 yrs	16.8 yrs
231	Angola	18.4 yrs	16.9 yrs
232	Niger	17.9 yrs	15.9 yrs
233	Mali	17.7 yrs	16.0 yrs
234	Democratic Republic of the Congo	17.2 yrs	15.9 yrs
235	Somalia	17.2 yrs	15.7 yrs
236	Chad	17.0 yrs	15.8 yrs
237	Central African Republic	15.9 yrs	14.8 yrs

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