Median age by country, 2039

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

◀▶2039

#	Country / area	Median age	2029
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	56.0 yrs	49.8 yrs
2	Japan	53.0 yrs	51.2 yrs
3	Republic of Korea	52.9 yrs	47.9 yrs
4	China, Taiwan Province of China	52.6 yrs	47.2 yrs
5	San Marino	52.3 yrs	50.3 yrs
6	Italy	51.9 yrs	49.6 yrs
7	Martinique	51.8 yrs	51.0 yrs
8	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	51.7 yrs	48.6 yrs
9	Saint Martin (French part)	51.5 yrs	47.4 yrs
10	Bermuda	51.2 yrs	47.6 yrs
11	Spain	50.8 yrs	47.6 yrs
12	Saint Helena	50.8 yrs	51.4 yrs
13	Puerto Rico	50.8 yrs	47.4 yrs
14	Bosnia and Herzegovina	50.4 yrs	47.4 yrs
15	Greece	50.3 yrs	48.1 yrs
16	Andorra	50.1 yrs	45.6 yrs
17	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	50.1 yrs	45.1 yrs
18	China, Macao SAR	49.5 yrs	42.4 yrs
19	Portugal	49.1 yrs	48.1 yrs
20	Poland	49.0 yrs	44.5 yrs
21	Slovenia	48.7 yrs	46.1 yrs
22	Guadeloupe	48.4 yrs	48.0 yrs
23	Croatia	48.2 yrs	46.3 yrs
24	Bulgaria	48.2 yrs	45.7 yrs
25	Isle of Man	48.2 yrs	46.9 yrs
26	China	48.1 yrs	42.3 yrs
27	Estonia	48.0 yrs	44.3 yrs
28	Germany	48.0 yrs	46.1 yrs
29	Ukraine	47.9 yrs	43.2 yrs
30	Malta	47.9 yrs	42.8 yrs
31	Latvia	47.8 yrs	44.7 yrs
32	Slovakia	47.7 yrs	44.0 yrs
33	Austria	47.6 yrs	44.8 yrs
34	Guernsey	47.4 yrs	45.2 yrs
35	Serbia	47.4 yrs	45.4 yrs
36	Cuba	47.3 yrs	43.5 yrs
37	Czechia	47.2 yrs	45.1 yrs
38	Belarus	47.2 yrs	43.1 yrs
39	Switzerland	47.0 yrs	44.1 yrs
40	Lithuania	47.0 yrs	43.5 yrs
41	Liechtenstein	46.5 yrs	45.3 yrs
42	Jersey	46.3 yrs	44.7 yrs
43	Monaco	46.2 yrs	51.2 yrs
44	Romania	46.2 yrs	43.9 yrs
45	Finland	46.0 yrs	44.1 yrs
46	Hungary	45.8 yrs	44.6 yrs
47	Thailand	45.7 yrs	42.2 yrs
48	North Macedonia	45.7 yrs	42.5 yrs
49	British Virgin Islands	45.6 yrs	40.8 yrs
50	Montserrat	45.5 yrs	42.9 yrs
51	Albania	45.3 yrs	39.5 yrs
52	Cyprus	45.0 yrs	40.5 yrs
53	Belgium	44.7 yrs	42.8 yrs
54	Mauritius	44.5 yrs	39.7 yrs
55	Turks and Caicos Islands	44.4 yrs	40.9 yrs
56	Singapore	44.3 yrs	38.5 yrs
57	Russian Federation	44.1 yrs	41.8 yrs
58	United States Virgin Islands	44.1 yrs	45.0 yrs
59	Chile	44.0 yrs	39.0 yrs
60	Holy See	43.9 yrs	51.5 yrs
61	Armenia	43.8 yrs	38.9 yrs
62	Norway	43.8 yrs	41.0 yrs
63	Luxembourg	43.8 yrs	40.6 yrs
64	Aruba	43.7 yrs	42.4 yrs
65	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	43.7 yrs	40.3 yrs
66	Netherlands	43.6 yrs	41.8 yrs
67	Canada	43.6 yrs	41.5 yrs
68	Sweden	43.6 yrs	41.1 yrs
69	Curaçao	43.5 yrs	39.7 yrs
70	Cayman Islands	43.5 yrs	40.2 yrs
71	Montenegro	43.5 yrs	41.4 yrs
72	French Polynesia	43.5 yrs	38.5 yrs
73	Anguilla	43.4 yrs	40.4 yrs
74	Trinidad and Tobago	43.4 yrs	39.7 yrs
75	France	43.4 yrs	42.9 yrs
76	Maldives	43.3 yrs	35.8 yrs
77	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.1 yrs	42.5 yrs
78	Denmark	43.0 yrs	41.5 yrs
79	Republic of Moldova	43.0 yrs	40.4 yrs
80	Cook Islands	42.9 yrs	40.8 yrs
81	Costa Rica	42.3 yrs	37.3 yrs
82	Barbados	42.3 yrs	40.3 yrs
83	Antigua and Barbuda	42.0 yrs	38.0 yrs
84	United Kingdom	42.0 yrs	40.6 yrs
85	Palau	42.0 yrs	39.8 yrs
86	Iceland	41.8 yrs	37.7 yrs
87	New Zealand	41.5 yrs	38.9 yrs
88	Uruguay	41.4 yrs	37.8 yrs
89	Australia	41.4 yrs	39.3 yrs
90	Saint Barthélemy	41.3 yrs	39.6 yrs
91	Saint Lucia	41.3 yrs	36.5 yrs
92	Saint Kitts and Nevis	41.0 yrs	37.7 yrs
93	Ireland	40.9 yrs	39.7 yrs
94	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	40.9 yrs	37.6 yrs
95	United States of America	40.8 yrs	39.3 yrs
96	Dominica	40.8 yrs	37.8 yrs
97	Jamaica	40.6 yrs	35.0 yrs
98	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	40.5 yrs	36.2 yrs
99	Grenada	40.5 yrs	36.3 yrs
100	Gibraltar	40.5 yrs	38.9 yrs
101	Brazil	40.4 yrs	36.5 yrs
102	Réunion	40.3 yrs	39.3 yrs
103	Seychelles	40.2 yrs	35.7 yrs
104	Georgia	40.1 yrs	38.4 yrs
105	Bahamas	40.1 yrs	36.7 yrs
106	Türkiye	40.0 yrs	35.4 yrs
107	Wallis and Futuna Islands	39.9 yrs	39.7 yrs
108	Greenland	39.9 yrs	36.7 yrs
109	Northern Mariana Islands	39.9 yrs	40.6 yrs
110	Colombia	39.1 yrs	34.4 yrs
111	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	38.8 yrs	34.7 yrs
112	Brunei Darussalam	38.6 yrs	34.6 yrs
113	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	38.2 yrs	35.6 yrs
114	Argentina	38.1 yrs	34.5 yrs
115	Tunisia	38.0 yrs	34.6 yrs
116	New Caledonia	38.0 yrs	35.8 yrs
117	Faroe Islands	38.0 yrs	37.5 yrs
118	Viet Nam	38.0 yrs	35.3 yrs
119	Azerbaijan	37.9 yrs	35.5 yrs
120	Sri Lanka	37.1 yrs	34.5 yrs
121	Bhutan	37.1 yrs	32.5 yrs
122	Malaysia	36.5 yrs	32.6 yrs
123	Cabo Verde	35.6 yrs	31.1 yrs
124	Ecuador	35.2 yrs	31.0 yrs
125	Peru	35.2 yrs	31.6 yrs
126	Kuwait	34.9 yrs	34.9 yrs
127	Western Sahara	34.9 yrs	33.5 yrs
128	Panama	34.8 yrs	31.6 yrs
129	Mexico	34.8 yrs	31.1 yrs
130	El Salvador	34.4 yrs	29.8 yrs
131	India	34.3 yrs	30.4 yrs
132	Indonesia	34.0 yrs	31.5 yrs
133	Bahrain	34.0 yrs	33.6 yrs
134	Myanmar	34.0 yrs	31.3 yrs
135	Morocco	34.0 yrs	31.1 yrs
136	Belize	33.5 yrs	28.8 yrs
137	Guam	33.3 yrs	32.2 yrs
138	Suriname	32.9 yrs	29.8 yrs
139	Dominican Republic	32.9 yrs	29.7 yrs
140	Lebanon	32.7 yrs	29.9 yrs
141	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	32.5 yrs	30.0 yrs
142	Libya	32.4 yrs	28.9 yrs
143	United Arab Emirates	32.3 yrs	31.7 yrs
144	Qatar	32.1 yrs	33.2 yrs
145	American Samoa	31.9 yrs	29.1 yrs
146	Tokelau	31.6 yrs	28.5 yrs
147	Philippines	31.6 yrs	27.8 yrs
148	Niue	31.3 yrs	33.3 yrs
149	Bangladesh	31.3 yrs	27.3 yrs
150	Algeria	31.1 yrs	29.3 yrs
151	Nicaragua	30.9 yrs	27.4 yrs
152	South Africa	30.8 yrs	29.4 yrs
153	Nepal	30.7 yrs	26.8 yrs
154	Paraguay	30.6 yrs	28.2 yrs
155	Fiji	30.6 yrs	28.8 yrs
156	Saudi Arabia	30.5 yrs	29.7 yrs
157	Israel	30.4 yrs	29.4 yrs
158	Oman	30.1 yrs	29.9 yrs
159	Turkmenistan	29.7 yrs	28.2 yrs
160	Guyana	29.4 yrs	27.4 yrs
161	Kazakhstan	29.4 yrs	29.6 yrs
162	Lao People's Democratic Republic	29.4 yrs	26.3 yrs
163	Cambodia	29.3 yrs	26.9 yrs
164	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	29.0 yrs	26.3 yrs
165	Syrian Arab Republic	28.9 yrs	25.1 yrs
166	Honduras	28.9 yrs	25.6 yrs
167	Guatemala	28.8 yrs	25.0 yrs
168	Djibouti	28.8 yrs	26.0 yrs
169	Jordan	28.7 yrs	25.6 yrs
170	Mongolia	28.2 yrs	27.0 yrs
171	Haiti	28.0 yrs	25.2 yrs
172	Egypt	27.6 yrs	25.4 yrs
173	Kyrgyzstan	27.5 yrs	25.8 yrs
174	Botswana	27.4 yrs	24.6 yrs
175	Timor-Leste	27.0 yrs	23.3 yrs
176	Uzbekistan	26.9 yrs	26.9 yrs
177	French Guiana	26.9 yrs	25.1 yrs
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	26.4 yrs	24.1 yrs
179	Eswatini	26.2 yrs	23.4 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	26.0 yrs	23.7 yrs
181	Lesotho	25.5 yrs	22.8 yrs
182	Kiribati	25.1 yrs	23.2 yrs
183	Tuvalu	25.1 yrs	23.8 yrs
184	Iraq	24.9 yrs	21.9 yrs
185	Tajikistan	24.7 yrs	22.6 yrs
186	Ghana	24.6 yrs	22.2 yrs
187	Namibia	24.4 yrs	22.1 yrs
188	State of Palestine	24.2 yrs	21.0 yrs
189	Tonga	24.0 yrs	21.4 yrs
190	Marshall Islands	24.0 yrs	21.0 yrs
191	Solomon Islands	23.9 yrs	21.6 yrs
192	Pakistan	23.8 yrs	21.3 yrs
193	Kenya	23.7 yrs	21.1 yrs
194	Gabon	23.5 yrs	21.8 yrs
195	Nauru	23.5 yrs	20.6 yrs
196	Sierra Leone	23.3 yrs	20.6 yrs
197	Rwanda	23.2 yrs	21.0 yrs
198	South Sudan	23.2 yrs	20.1 yrs
199	Comoros	23.1 yrs	21.1 yrs
200	Senegal	23.0 yrs	20.6 yrs
201	Guinea-Bissau	22.9 yrs	20.3 yrs
202	Vanuatu	22.9 yrs	20.7 yrs
203	Gambia	22.8 yrs	19.6 yrs
204	Eritrea	22.7 yrs	20.3 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	22.6 yrs	20.5 yrs
206	Equatorial Guinea	22.6 yrs	21.1 yrs
207	Samoa	22.3 yrs	20.1 yrs
208	Liberia	22.2 yrs	19.7 yrs
209	Ethiopia	21.9 yrs	20.0 yrs
210	Burkina Faso	21.9 yrs	18.9 yrs
211	Malawi	21.9 yrs	19.2 yrs
212	Madagascar	21.8 yrs	19.9 yrs
213	Zimbabwe	21.5 yrs	19.0 yrs
214	Togo	21.5 yrs	19.7 yrs
215	Congo	21.4 yrs	19.3 yrs
216	Nigeria	21.4 yrs	19.0 yrs
217	Guinea	21.3 yrs	19.0 yrs
218	Sudan	21.2 yrs	19.3 yrs
219	Côte d'Ivoire	21.1 yrs	19.1 yrs
220	Zambia	21.1 yrs	18.9 yrs
221	Yemen	20.9 yrs	18.8 yrs
222	Cameroon	20.7 yrs	18.7 yrs
223	Benin	20.7 yrs	18.7 yrs
224	Uganda	20.4 yrs	17.8 yrs
225	Burundi	20.3 yrs	17.6 yrs
226	Mayotte	20.3 yrs	18.0 yrs
227	Afghanistan	20.2 yrs	18.0 yrs
228	Mauritania	19.9 yrs	18.0 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	19.6 yrs	18.0 yrs
230	Mozambique	19.0 yrs	17.1 yrs
231	Angola	18.8 yrs	17.1 yrs
232	Niger	18.3 yrs	16.2 yrs
233	Mali	18.0 yrs	16.4 yrs
234	Democratic Republic of the Congo	17.6 yrs	16.1 yrs
235	Somalia	17.6 yrs	15.8 yrs
236	Chad	17.3 yrs	15.9 yrs
237	Central African Republic	16.1 yrs	15.1 yrs

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