Median age by country, 2038

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

◀▶2038

#	Country / area	Median age	2028
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	55.4 yrs	49.2 yrs
2	Japan	52.9 yrs	50.9 yrs
3	Republic of Korea	52.5 yrs	47.3 yrs
4	San Marino	52.3 yrs	49.9 yrs
5	China, Taiwan Province of China	52.1 yrs	46.6 yrs
6	Italy	51.8 yrs	49.3 yrs
7	Martinique	51.8 yrs	50.8 yrs
8	Saint Martin (French part)	51.6 yrs	46.4 yrs
9	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	51.6 yrs	48.3 yrs
10	Saint Helena	51.2 yrs	51.3 yrs
11	Bermuda	51.0 yrs	47.2 yrs
12	Spain	50.6 yrs	47.2 yrs
13	Puerto Rico	50.4 yrs	47.0 yrs
14	Greece	50.3 yrs	47.8 yrs
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	50.2 yrs	47.0 yrs
16	Andorra	49.7 yrs	45.1 yrs
17	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	49.7 yrs	44.5 yrs
18	Portugal	49.2 yrs	47.8 yrs
19	China, Macao SAR	48.8 yrs	41.7 yrs
20	Poland	48.6 yrs	44.0 yrs
21	Guadeloupe	48.5 yrs	47.8 yrs
22	Slovenia	48.5 yrs	45.8 yrs
23	Croatia	48.1 yrs	46.1 yrs
24	Isle of Man	48.1 yrs	46.7 yrs
25	Bulgaria	47.9 yrs	45.5 yrs
26	Germany	47.8 yrs	46.0 yrs
27	Estonia	47.7 yrs	43.9 yrs
28	Ukraine	47.5 yrs	42.8 yrs
29	Latvia	47.5 yrs	44.4 yrs
30	China	47.5 yrs	41.8 yrs
31	Slovakia	47.4 yrs	43.6 yrs
32	Malta	47.4 yrs	42.4 yrs
33	Austria	47.3 yrs	44.5 yrs
34	Serbia	47.2 yrs	45.1 yrs
35	Guernsey	47.1 yrs	44.9 yrs
36	Czechia	47.0 yrs	44.8 yrs
37	Cuba	46.9 yrs	43.1 yrs
38	Belarus	46.9 yrs	42.7 yrs
39	Switzerland	46.7 yrs	43.8 yrs
40	Monaco	46.6 yrs	52.0 yrs
41	Lithuania	46.6 yrs	43.2 yrs
42	Liechtenstein	46.4 yrs	45.1 yrs
43	Jersey	46.2 yrs	44.4 yrs
44	Romania	46.1 yrs	43.7 yrs
45	Finland	45.8 yrs	43.9 yrs
46	Hungary	45.6 yrs	44.5 yrs
47	Thailand	45.4 yrs	41.8 yrs
48	Montserrat	45.4 yrs	42.6 yrs
49	North Macedonia	45.4 yrs	42.1 yrs
50	British Virgin Islands	45.2 yrs	40.3 yrs
51	Albania	44.7 yrs	38.9 yrs
52	Cyprus	44.6 yrs	40.0 yrs
53	Belgium	44.6 yrs	42.5 yrs
54	Holy See	44.5 yrs	52.5 yrs
55	Russian Federation	44.2 yrs	41.4 yrs
56	United States Virgin Islands	44.2 yrs	45.0 yrs
57	Turks and Caicos Islands	44.1 yrs	40.5 yrs
58	Mauritius	44.0 yrs	39.2 yrs
59	Aruba	43.7 yrs	42.2 yrs
60	Cook Islands	43.7 yrs	40.0 yrs
61	Singapore	43.7 yrs	37.9 yrs
62	Norway	43.6 yrs	40.7 yrs
63	Chile	43.5 yrs	38.4 yrs
64	France	43.5 yrs	42.7 yrs
65	Luxembourg	43.5 yrs	40.3 yrs
66	Armenia	43.4 yrs	38.3 yrs
67	Netherlands	43.4 yrs	41.7 yrs
68	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	43.4 yrs	40.1 yrs
69	Canada	43.4 yrs	41.3 yrs
70	Sweden	43.4 yrs	40.9 yrs
71	Cayman Islands	43.3 yrs	39.8 yrs
72	Montenegro	43.3 yrs	41.0 yrs
73	Anguilla	43.1 yrs	40.0 yrs
74	Curaçao	43.1 yrs	39.5 yrs
75	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.1 yrs	42.3 yrs
76	Trinidad and Tobago	43.1 yrs	39.2 yrs
77	French Polynesia	43.1 yrs	37.9 yrs
78	Republic of Moldova	42.9 yrs	40.0 yrs
79	Denmark	42.8 yrs	41.4 yrs
80	Maldives	42.6 yrs	35.0 yrs
81	Barbados	42.1 yrs	40.1 yrs
82	Palau	42.0 yrs	39.5 yrs
83	United Kingdom	41.9 yrs	40.5 yrs
84	Costa Rica	41.8 yrs	36.8 yrs
85	Antigua and Barbuda	41.6 yrs	37.5 yrs
86	Iceland	41.4 yrs	37.3 yrs
87	Australia	41.3 yrs	39.0 yrs
88	New Zealand	41.3 yrs	38.5 yrs
89	Saint Barthélemy	41.2 yrs	39.4 yrs
90	Uruguay	41.0 yrs	37.4 yrs
91	Saint Lucia	40.9 yrs	36.0 yrs
92	Northern Mariana Islands	40.9 yrs	40.1 yrs
93	Ireland	40.8 yrs	39.6 yrs
94	United States of America	40.7 yrs	39.1 yrs
95	Saint Kitts and Nevis	40.7 yrs	37.3 yrs
96	Dominica	40.7 yrs	37.4 yrs
97	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	40.5 yrs	37.4 yrs
98	Wallis and Futuna Islands	40.3 yrs	39.4 yrs
99	Gibraltar	40.3 yrs	38.9 yrs
100	Réunion	40.3 yrs	39.0 yrs
101	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	40.2 yrs	35.6 yrs
102	Grenada	40.1 yrs	35.9 yrs
103	Jamaica	40.1 yrs	34.5 yrs
104	Georgia	40.0 yrs	38.1 yrs
105	Brazil	40.0 yrs	36.1 yrs
106	Bahamas	39.9 yrs	36.4 yrs
107	Greenland	39.8 yrs	36.3 yrs
108	Seychelles	39.8 yrs	35.3 yrs
109	Türkiye	39.5 yrs	34.9 yrs
110	Colombia	38.6 yrs	33.9 yrs
111	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	38.4 yrs	34.2 yrs
112	Brunei Darussalam	38.3 yrs	34.1 yrs
113	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	38.0 yrs	35.3 yrs
114	Azerbaijan	37.9 yrs	35.0 yrs
115	Viet Nam	37.9 yrs	34.8 yrs
116	Argentina	37.8 yrs	34.1 yrs
117	Faroe Islands	37.8 yrs	37.3 yrs
118	Tunisia	37.7 yrs	34.2 yrs
119	New Caledonia	37.7 yrs	35.5 yrs
120	Sri Lanka	36.8 yrs	34.2 yrs
121	Bhutan	36.7 yrs	32.0 yrs
122	Malaysia	36.1 yrs	32.2 yrs
123	Cabo Verde	35.1 yrs	30.6 yrs
124	Kuwait	34.9 yrs	34.9 yrs
125	Ecuador	34.8 yrs	30.6 yrs
126	Peru	34.8 yrs	31.3 yrs
127	Western Sahara	34.8 yrs	33.3 yrs
128	Panama	34.5 yrs	31.2 yrs
129	Mexico	34.4 yrs	30.7 yrs
130	El Salvador	34.0 yrs	29.3 yrs
131	India	33.9 yrs	30.0 yrs
132	Bahrain	33.9 yrs	33.6 yrs
133	Indonesia	33.8 yrs	31.2 yrs
134	Myanmar	33.8 yrs	31.0 yrs
135	Morocco	33.7 yrs	30.8 yrs
136	Guam	33.3 yrs	32.0 yrs
137	Belize	33.0 yrs	28.3 yrs
138	Suriname	32.6 yrs	29.5 yrs
139	Dominican Republic	32.6 yrs	29.3 yrs
140	Lebanon	32.4 yrs	29.6 yrs
141	United Arab Emirates	32.2 yrs	31.7 yrs
142	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	32.2 yrs	29.8 yrs
143	Qatar	32.1 yrs	33.2 yrs
144	Libya	32.0 yrs	28.6 yrs
145	American Samoa	31.5 yrs	29.1 yrs
146	Tokelau	31.3 yrs	28.2 yrs
147	Philippines	31.2 yrs	27.4 yrs
148	Niue	31.1 yrs	33.8 yrs
149	Bangladesh	30.9 yrs	27.0 yrs
150	Algeria	30.8 yrs	29.2 yrs
151	Nicaragua	30.6 yrs	27.0 yrs
152	South Africa	30.6 yrs	29.3 yrs
153	Saudi Arabia	30.4 yrs	29.7 yrs
154	Paraguay	30.4 yrs	27.9 yrs
155	Fiji	30.4 yrs	28.6 yrs
156	Israel	30.3 yrs	29.3 yrs
157	Nepal	30.3 yrs	26.4 yrs
158	Oman	30.0 yrs	29.9 yrs
159	Turkmenistan	29.6 yrs	27.9 yrs
160	Kazakhstan	29.3 yrs	29.7 yrs
161	Guyana	29.2 yrs	27.1 yrs
162	Cambodia	29.1 yrs	26.7 yrs
163	Lao People's Democratic Republic	29.1 yrs	25.9 yrs
164	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	28.7 yrs	26.1 yrs
165	Honduras	28.6 yrs	25.3 yrs
166	Djibouti	28.5 yrs	25.7 yrs
167	Syrian Arab Republic	28.5 yrs	24.7 yrs
168	Guatemala	28.4 yrs	24.6 yrs
169	Jordan	28.4 yrs	25.4 yrs
170	Mongolia	27.9 yrs	27.0 yrs
171	Haiti	27.7 yrs	24.9 yrs
172	Egypt	27.4 yrs	25.1 yrs
173	Kyrgyzstan	27.3 yrs	25.7 yrs
174	Botswana	27.1 yrs	24.3 yrs
175	Uzbekistan	26.8 yrs	26.9 yrs
176	French Guiana	26.8 yrs	25.0 yrs
177	Timor-Leste	26.6 yrs	22.9 yrs
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	26.1 yrs	23.9 yrs
179	Eswatini	25.9 yrs	23.2 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	25.8 yrs	23.5 yrs
181	Lesotho	25.2 yrs	22.6 yrs
182	Kiribati	24.9 yrs	23.1 yrs
183	Tuvalu	24.8 yrs	23.9 yrs
184	Iraq	24.5 yrs	21.6 yrs
185	Tajikistan	24.4 yrs	22.5 yrs
186	Ghana	24.3 yrs	22.0 yrs
187	Namibia	24.1 yrs	21.9 yrs
188	State of Palestine	23.9 yrs	20.8 yrs
189	Solomon Islands	23.7 yrs	21.4 yrs
190	Tonga	23.7 yrs	21.3 yrs
191	Marshall Islands	23.7 yrs	20.8 yrs
192	Pakistan	23.6 yrs	21.1 yrs
193	Kenya	23.5 yrs	20.8 yrs
194	Gabon	23.3 yrs	21.7 yrs
195	Nauru	23.3 yrs	20.4 yrs
196	Sierra Leone	23.1 yrs	20.4 yrs
197	Rwanda	22.9 yrs	20.8 yrs
198	South Sudan	22.9 yrs	19.7 yrs
199	Comoros	22.8 yrs	21.0 yrs
200	Senegal	22.8 yrs	20.3 yrs
201	Guinea-Bissau	22.7 yrs	20.1 yrs
202	Vanuatu	22.7 yrs	20.6 yrs
203	Eritrea	22.5 yrs	20.1 yrs
204	Gambia	22.5 yrs	19.4 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	22.4 yrs	20.2 yrs
206	Equatorial Guinea	22.4 yrs	21.0 yrs
207	Samoa	22.1 yrs	20.0 yrs
208	Liberia	21.9 yrs	19.5 yrs
209	Ethiopia	21.7 yrs	19.8 yrs
210	Burkina Faso	21.6 yrs	18.6 yrs
211	Madagascar	21.6 yrs	19.7 yrs
212	Malawi	21.6 yrs	18.9 yrs
213	Zimbabwe	21.3 yrs	18.7 yrs
214	Togo	21.3 yrs	19.5 yrs
215	Congo	21.2 yrs	19.1 yrs
216	Nigeria	21.2 yrs	18.8 yrs
217	Guinea	21.1 yrs	18.9 yrs
218	Sudan	21.0 yrs	19.1 yrs
219	Côte d'Ivoire	20.9 yrs	18.9 yrs
220	Zambia	20.9 yrs	18.6 yrs
221	Yemen	20.6 yrs	18.7 yrs
222	Cameroon	20.5 yrs	18.6 yrs
223	Benin	20.5 yrs	18.5 yrs
224	Uganda	20.1 yrs	17.5 yrs
225	Burundi	20.1 yrs	17.2 yrs
226	Mayotte	20.1 yrs	17.8 yrs
227	Afghanistan	20.0 yrs	17.8 yrs
228	Mauritania	19.7 yrs	17.8 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	19.4 yrs	17.9 yrs
230	Mozambique	18.8 yrs	16.9 yrs
231	Angola	18.6 yrs	17.0 yrs
232	Niger	18.1 yrs	16.1 yrs
233	Mali	17.8 yrs	16.2 yrs
234	Democratic Republic of the Congo	17.4 yrs	16.0 yrs
235	Somalia	17.4 yrs	15.7 yrs
236	Chad	17.1 yrs	15.8 yrs
237	Central African Republic	16.0 yrs	14.9 yrs

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