Median age by country, 2040

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

◀▶2040

#	Country / area	Median age	2030
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	56.5 yrs	50.4 yrs
2	Republic of Korea	53.3 yrs	48.5 yrs
3	Japan	53.1 yrs	51.5 yrs
4	China, Taiwan Province of China	53.0 yrs	47.8 yrs
5	San Marino	52.3 yrs	50.7 yrs
6	Italy	52.0 yrs	50.0 yrs
7	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	51.7 yrs	49.0 yrs
8	Martinique	51.7 yrs	51.2 yrs
9	Bermuda	51.5 yrs	48.1 yrs
10	Saint Martin (French part)	51.3 yrs	48.3 yrs
11	Puerto Rico	51.1 yrs	47.7 yrs
12	Spain	51.0 yrs	48.0 yrs
13	Saint Helena	50.6 yrs	51.3 yrs
14	Bosnia and Herzegovina	50.6 yrs	47.7 yrs
15	Andorra	50.5 yrs	46.1 yrs
16	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	50.5 yrs	45.7 yrs
17	Greece	50.4 yrs	48.5 yrs
18	China, Macao SAR	50.2 yrs	43.1 yrs
19	Poland	49.3 yrs	45.0 yrs
20	Portugal	49.1 yrs	48.3 yrs
21	Slovenia	48.8 yrs	46.5 yrs
22	China	48.6 yrs	42.9 yrs
23	Guadeloupe	48.4 yrs	48.2 yrs
24	Bulgaria	48.4 yrs	45.9 yrs
25	Malta	48.4 yrs	43.3 yrs
26	Ukraine	48.3 yrs	43.7 yrs
27	Estonia	48.3 yrs	44.7 yrs
28	Croatia	48.3 yrs	46.6 yrs
29	Isle of Man	48.3 yrs	47.1 yrs
30	Germany	48.1 yrs	46.3 yrs
31	Latvia	48.1 yrs	45.0 yrs
32	Slovakia	48.0 yrs	44.4 yrs
33	Austria	47.9 yrs	45.1 yrs
34	Guernsey	47.6 yrs	45.4 yrs
35	Cuba	47.6 yrs	43.9 yrs
36	Serbia	47.5 yrs	45.6 yrs
37	Belarus	47.5 yrs	43.5 yrs
38	Lithuania	47.4 yrs	43.8 yrs
39	Czechia	47.3 yrs	45.4 yrs
40	Switzerland	47.2 yrs	44.4 yrs
41	Liechtenstein	46.6 yrs	45.5 yrs
42	Jersey	46.4 yrs	44.9 yrs
43	Romania	46.2 yrs	44.1 yrs
44	Finland	46.1 yrs	44.3 yrs
45	Thailand	46.0 yrs	42.6 yrs
46	British Virgin Islands	46.0 yrs	41.3 yrs
47	Albania	45.9 yrs	40.1 yrs
48	Hungary	45.9 yrs	44.7 yrs
49	North Macedonia	45.9 yrs	42.8 yrs
50	Monaco	45.8 yrs	50.6 yrs
51	Montserrat	45.6 yrs	43.2 yrs
52	Cyprus	45.4 yrs	41.0 yrs
53	Singapore	44.9 yrs	39.0 yrs
54	Belgium	44.9 yrs	43.0 yrs
55	Mauritius	44.9 yrs	40.2 yrs
56	Turks and Caicos Islands	44.7 yrs	41.4 yrs
57	Chile	44.5 yrs	39.5 yrs
58	Armenia	44.1 yrs	39.5 yrs
59	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	44.0 yrs	40.6 yrs
60	Curaçao	44.0 yrs	40.0 yrs
61	Norway	44.0 yrs	41.3 yrs
62	Maldives	44.0 yrs	36.5 yrs
63	Luxembourg	44.0 yrs	40.9 yrs
64	Russian Federation	43.9 yrs	42.2 yrs
65	French Polynesia	43.9 yrs	39.0 yrs
66	Canada	43.8 yrs	41.7 yrs
67	United States Virgin Islands	43.8 yrs	45.0 yrs
68	Aruba	43.7 yrs	42.6 yrs
69	Anguilla	43.7 yrs	40.7 yrs
70	Netherlands	43.7 yrs	42.0 yrs
71	Cayman Islands	43.7 yrs	40.6 yrs
72	Sweden	43.7 yrs	41.3 yrs
73	Trinidad and Tobago	43.7 yrs	40.1 yrs
74	Montenegro	43.7 yrs	41.6 yrs
75	France	43.3 yrs	43.0 yrs
76	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.1 yrs	42.6 yrs
77	Denmark	43.1 yrs	41.6 yrs
78	Holy See	43.1 yrs	51.0 yrs
79	Republic of Moldova	42.9 yrs	40.8 yrs
80	Costa Rica	42.7 yrs	37.8 yrs
81	Barbados	42.5 yrs	40.5 yrs
82	Antigua and Barbuda	42.4 yrs	38.4 yrs
83	Iceland	42.1 yrs	38.1 yrs
84	United Kingdom	42.1 yrs	40.7 yrs
85	Palau	41.9 yrs	40.1 yrs
86	Saint Lucia	41.8 yrs	37.0 yrs
87	Uruguay	41.7 yrs	38.1 yrs
88	New Zealand	41.6 yrs	39.2 yrs
89	Australia	41.5 yrs	39.5 yrs
90	Saint Barthélemy	41.5 yrs	39.9 yrs
91	Saint Kitts and Nevis	41.4 yrs	38.1 yrs
92	Jamaica	41.2 yrs	35.6 yrs
93	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	41.1 yrs	38.0 yrs
94	Ireland	41.0 yrs	39.9 yrs
95	Dominica	41.0 yrs	38.2 yrs
96	Grenada	40.9 yrs	36.8 yrs
97	United States of America	40.8 yrs	39.6 yrs
98	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	40.8 yrs	36.7 yrs
99	Brazil	40.8 yrs	36.9 yrs
100	Gibraltar	40.7 yrs	39.0 yrs
101	Seychelles	40.5 yrs	36.2 yrs
102	Türkiye	40.5 yrs	35.8 yrs
103	Bahamas	40.4 yrs	37.1 yrs
104	Réunion	40.2 yrs	39.6 yrs
105	Georgia	40.1 yrs	38.7 yrs
106	Greenland	40.0 yrs	37.1 yrs
107	Wallis and Futuna Islands	39.7 yrs	39.9 yrs
108	Colombia	39.5 yrs	34.9 yrs
109	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	39.3 yrs	35.2 yrs
110	Brunei Darussalam	39.0 yrs	35.0 yrs
111	Northern Mariana Islands	39.0 yrs	41.0 yrs
112	Cook Islands	38.7 yrs	41.5 yrs
113	Argentina	38.5 yrs	34.9 yrs
114	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	38.4 yrs	36.0 yrs
115	New Caledonia	38.3 yrs	36.0 yrs
116	Tunisia	38.2 yrs	35.0 yrs
117	Faroe Islands	38.2 yrs	37.6 yrs
118	Viet Nam	38.2 yrs	35.7 yrs
119	Azerbaijan	38.0 yrs	35.9 yrs
120	Bhutan	37.6 yrs	33.0 yrs
121	Sri Lanka	37.3 yrs	34.8 yrs
122	Malaysia	36.8 yrs	33.0 yrs
123	Cabo Verde	36.0 yrs	31.6 yrs
124	Ecuador	35.6 yrs	31.5 yrs
125	Peru	35.5 yrs	32.0 yrs
126	Panama	35.1 yrs	31.9 yrs
127	Mexico	35.1 yrs	31.4 yrs
128	Kuwait	35.0 yrs	34.9 yrs
129	Western Sahara	35.0 yrs	33.7 yrs
130	El Salvador	34.8 yrs	30.3 yrs
131	India	34.7 yrs	30.8 yrs
132	Indonesia	34.3 yrs	31.8 yrs
133	Myanmar	34.3 yrs	31.6 yrs
134	Morocco	34.2 yrs	31.4 yrs
135	Bahrain	34.1 yrs	33.6 yrs
136	Belize	33.9 yrs	29.3 yrs
137	Guam	33.4 yrs	32.4 yrs
138	Dominican Republic	33.2 yrs	30.0 yrs
139	Suriname	33.1 yrs	30.1 yrs
140	Lebanon	33.0 yrs	30.1 yrs
141	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	32.9 yrs	30.2 yrs
142	Libya	32.8 yrs	29.3 yrs
143	United Arab Emirates	32.3 yrs	31.8 yrs
144	Qatar	32.2 yrs	33.1 yrs
145	American Samoa	32.2 yrs	29.1 yrs
146	Tokelau	32.0 yrs	28.8 yrs
147	Philippines	32.0 yrs	28.2 yrs
148	Bangladesh	31.7 yrs	27.7 yrs
149	Algeria	31.4 yrs	29.4 yrs
150	Niue	31.4 yrs	33.1 yrs
151	Nicaragua	31.3 yrs	27.7 yrs
152	Nepal	31.1 yrs	27.1 yrs
153	South Africa	31.0 yrs	29.6 yrs
154	Paraguay	30.9 yrs	28.4 yrs
155	Fiji	30.9 yrs	28.9 yrs
156	Saudi Arabia	30.7 yrs	29.7 yrs
157	Israel	30.5 yrs	29.4 yrs
158	Oman	30.1 yrs	29.9 yrs
159	Turkmenistan	29.9 yrs	28.5 yrs
160	Lao People's Democratic Republic	29.8 yrs	26.6 yrs
161	Guyana	29.6 yrs	27.6 yrs
162	Kazakhstan	29.6 yrs	29.5 yrs
163	Cambodia	29.6 yrs	27.1 yrs
164	Syrian Arab Republic	29.3 yrs	25.5 yrs
165	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	29.3 yrs	26.6 yrs
166	Honduras	29.3 yrs	26.0 yrs
167	Guatemala	29.1 yrs	25.4 yrs
168	Jordan	29.1 yrs	25.9 yrs
169	Djibouti	29.0 yrs	26.3 yrs
170	Mongolia	28.5 yrs	27.0 yrs
171	Haiti	28.3 yrs	25.4 yrs
172	Egypt	27.9 yrs	25.6 yrs
173	Kyrgyzstan	27.8 yrs	25.9 yrs
174	Botswana	27.6 yrs	24.9 yrs
175	Timor-Leste	27.3 yrs	23.7 yrs
176	French Guiana	27.1 yrs	25.2 yrs
177	Uzbekistan	26.9 yrs	26.8 yrs
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	26.6 yrs	24.3 yrs
179	Eswatini	26.5 yrs	23.7 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	26.3 yrs	23.9 yrs
181	Lesotho	25.8 yrs	23.0 yrs
182	Kiribati	25.4 yrs	23.3 yrs
183	Tuvalu	25.3 yrs	23.8 yrs
184	Iraq	25.2 yrs	22.1 yrs
185	Tajikistan	25.0 yrs	22.7 yrs
186	Ghana	24.8 yrs	22.4 yrs
187	Namibia	24.7 yrs	22.2 yrs
188	State of Palestine	24.5 yrs	21.3 yrs
189	Tonga	24.3 yrs	21.6 yrs
190	Marshall Islands	24.3 yrs	21.3 yrs
191	Solomon Islands	24.2 yrs	21.8 yrs
192	Kenya	24.0 yrs	21.4 yrs
193	Pakistan	24.0 yrs	21.6 yrs
194	Nauru	23.8 yrs	20.9 yrs
195	Gabon	23.7 yrs	21.9 yrs
196	Sierra Leone	23.6 yrs	20.9 yrs
197	Rwanda	23.4 yrs	21.2 yrs
198	South Sudan	23.4 yrs	20.4 yrs
199	Comoros	23.3 yrs	21.3 yrs
200	Guinea-Bissau	23.2 yrs	20.6 yrs
201	Senegal	23.2 yrs	20.8 yrs
202	Gambia	23.1 yrs	19.9 yrs
203	Vanuatu	23.1 yrs	20.9 yrs
204	Eritrea	22.9 yrs	20.6 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	22.8 yrs	20.7 yrs
206	Equatorial Guinea	22.7 yrs	21.2 yrs
207	Samoa	22.5 yrs	20.3 yrs
208	Liberia	22.4 yrs	20.0 yrs
209	Burkina Faso	22.2 yrs	19.1 yrs
210	Ethiopia	22.1 yrs	20.2 yrs
211	Malawi	22.1 yrs	19.5 yrs
212	Madagascar	22.0 yrs	20.1 yrs
213	Togo	21.7 yrs	19.9 yrs
214	Nigeria	21.7 yrs	19.3 yrs
215	Guinea	21.6 yrs	19.3 yrs
216	Zimbabwe	21.6 yrs	19.2 yrs
217	Congo	21.5 yrs	19.5 yrs
218	Zambia	21.4 yrs	19.1 yrs
219	Sudan	21.4 yrs	19.4 yrs
220	Côte d'Ivoire	21.3 yrs	19.3 yrs
221	Yemen	21.1 yrs	19.0 yrs
222	Cameroon	20.9 yrs	18.9 yrs
223	Benin	20.9 yrs	18.9 yrs
224	Uganda	20.7 yrs	18.0 yrs
225	Afghanistan	20.5 yrs	18.2 yrs
226	Burundi	20.5 yrs	17.9 yrs
227	Mayotte	20.5 yrs	18.3 yrs
228	Mauritania	20.1 yrs	18.2 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	19.8 yrs	18.1 yrs
230	Mozambique	19.2 yrs	17.3 yrs
231	Angola	19.0 yrs	17.3 yrs
232	Niger	18.6 yrs	16.4 yrs
233	Mali	18.2 yrs	16.5 yrs
234	Democratic Republic of the Congo	17.8 yrs	16.2 yrs
235	Somalia	17.8 yrs	15.9 yrs
236	Chad	17.5 yrs	16.0 yrs
237	Central African Republic	16.4 yrs	15.2 yrs

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