Median age by country, 2041

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

◀▶2041

#	Country / area	Median age	2031
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	57.1 yrs	51.1 yrs
2	Republic of Korea	53.7 yrs	49.0 yrs
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	53.3 yrs	48.4 yrs
4	Japan	53.1 yrs	51.8 yrs
5	Italy	52.2 yrs	50.3 yrs
6	San Marino	52.2 yrs	51.1 yrs
7	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	51.8 yrs	49.4 yrs
8	Martinique	51.7 yrs	51.3 yrs
9	Bermuda	51.6 yrs	48.5 yrs
10	Puerto Rico	51.4 yrs	48.1 yrs
11	Spain	51.2 yrs	48.4 yrs
12	Andorra	51.0 yrs	46.5 yrs
13	Saint Martin (French part)	51.0 yrs	49.1 yrs
14	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	51.0 yrs	46.3 yrs
15	China, Macao SAR	50.9 yrs	43.8 yrs
16	Bosnia and Herzegovina	50.8 yrs	48.1 yrs
17	Saint Helena	50.7 yrs	51.1 yrs
18	Greece	50.4 yrs	48.8 yrs
19	Poland	49.7 yrs	45.5 yrs
20	Portugal	49.1 yrs	48.5 yrs
21	China	49.1 yrs	43.5 yrs
22	Malta	49.0 yrs	43.8 yrs
23	Slovenia	48.8 yrs	46.8 yrs
24	Ukraine	48.6 yrs	44.2 yrs
25	Bulgaria	48.6 yrs	46.2 yrs
26	Estonia	48.5 yrs	45.0 yrs
27	Croatia	48.4 yrs	46.9 yrs
28	Slovakia	48.3 yrs	44.9 yrs
29	Isle of Man	48.3 yrs	47.3 yrs
30	Latvia	48.3 yrs	45.3 yrs
31	Guadeloupe	48.2 yrs	48.4 yrs
32	Germany	48.2 yrs	46.5 yrs
33	Austria	48.1 yrs	45.4 yrs
34	Cuba	47.9 yrs	44.2 yrs
35	Guernsey	47.8 yrs	45.6 yrs
36	Belarus	47.8 yrs	44.0 yrs
37	Lithuania	47.8 yrs	44.1 yrs
38	Serbia	47.6 yrs	45.9 yrs
39	Switzerland	47.4 yrs	44.7 yrs
40	Czechia	47.4 yrs	45.6 yrs
41	Liechtenstein	46.6 yrs	45.6 yrs
42	Albania	46.5 yrs	40.6 yrs
43	Jersey	46.4 yrs	45.2 yrs
44	British Virgin Islands	46.4 yrs	41.9 yrs
45	Thailand	46.3 yrs	42.9 yrs
46	Finland	46.2 yrs	44.5 yrs
47	Romania	46.2 yrs	44.4 yrs
48	North Macedonia	46.2 yrs	43.2 yrs
49	Hungary	45.9 yrs	44.8 yrs
50	Montserrat	45.8 yrs	43.6 yrs
51	Cyprus	45.7 yrs	41.4 yrs
52	Singapore	45.5 yrs	39.6 yrs
53	Monaco	45.5 yrs	50.0 yrs
54	Mauritius	45.4 yrs	40.6 yrs
55	Turks and Caicos Islands	45.0 yrs	41.8 yrs
56	Chile	45.0 yrs	40.0 yrs
57	Belgium	44.9 yrs	43.2 yrs
58	Maldives	44.6 yrs	37.3 yrs
59	Armenia	44.4 yrs	40.0 yrs
60	Curaçao	44.4 yrs	40.3 yrs
61	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	44.3 yrs	41.0 yrs
62	Luxembourg	44.3 yrs	41.2 yrs
63	Norway	44.2 yrs	41.6 yrs
64	French Polynesia	44.2 yrs	39.6 yrs
65	Anguilla	44.0 yrs	41.1 yrs
66	Canada	44.0 yrs	41.9 yrs
67	Netherlands	43.9 yrs	42.1 yrs
68	Cayman Islands	43.9 yrs	41.0 yrs
69	Trinidad and Tobago	43.9 yrs	40.5 yrs
70	Montenegro	43.9 yrs	41.9 yrs
71	Sweden	43.8 yrs	41.6 yrs
72	Aruba	43.6 yrs	42.8 yrs
73	Russian Federation	43.6 yrs	42.6 yrs
74	United States Virgin Islands	43.5 yrs	45.0 yrs
75	Denmark	43.3 yrs	41.7 yrs
76	France	43.3 yrs	43.2 yrs
77	Costa Rica	43.2 yrs	38.3 yrs
78	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.1 yrs	42.8 yrs
79	Antigua and Barbuda	42.8 yrs	38.8 yrs
80	Barbados	42.6 yrs	40.7 yrs
81	Republic of Moldova	42.6 yrs	41.1 yrs
82	Iceland	42.5 yrs	38.5 yrs
83	Holy See	42.5 yrs	50.4 yrs
84	United Kingdom	42.2 yrs	40.8 yrs
85	Saint Lucia	42.2 yrs	37.4 yrs
86	Uruguay	42.1 yrs	38.5 yrs
87	Jamaica	41.7 yrs	36.1 yrs
88	Saint Kitts and Nevis	41.7 yrs	38.4 yrs
89	New Zealand	41.7 yrs	39.5 yrs
90	Australia	41.6 yrs	39.8 yrs
91	Saint Barthélemy	41.6 yrs	40.1 yrs
92	Palau	41.6 yrs	40.4 yrs
93	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	41.4 yrs	38.3 yrs
94	Grenada	41.3 yrs	37.2 yrs
95	Ireland	41.1 yrs	40.0 yrs
96	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	41.1 yrs	37.2 yrs
97	Dominica	41.1 yrs	38.6 yrs
98	Brazil	41.1 yrs	37.3 yrs
99	United States of America	40.9 yrs	39.8 yrs
100	Gibraltar	40.9 yrs	39.1 yrs
101	Türkiye	40.9 yrs	36.3 yrs
102	Seychelles	40.8 yrs	36.7 yrs
103	Bahamas	40.6 yrs	37.5 yrs
104	Greenland	40.1 yrs	37.5 yrs
105	Georgia	40.1 yrs	39.0 yrs
106	Réunion	40.1 yrs	39.8 yrs
107	Colombia	40.0 yrs	35.3 yrs
108	Wallis and Futuna Islands	39.8 yrs	40.2 yrs
109	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	39.7 yrs	35.6 yrs
110	Brunei Darussalam	39.3 yrs	35.5 yrs
111	Argentina	38.8 yrs	35.3 yrs
112	Northern Mariana Islands	38.6 yrs	41.4 yrs
113	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	38.5 yrs	36.3 yrs
114	New Caledonia	38.5 yrs	36.3 yrs
115	Tunisia	38.4 yrs	35.5 yrs
116	Faroe Islands	38.4 yrs	37.6 yrs
117	Viet Nam	38.3 yrs	36.1 yrs
118	Bhutan	38.1 yrs	33.5 yrs
119	Azerbaijan	38.0 yrs	36.3 yrs
120	Sri Lanka	37.6 yrs	35.0 yrs
121	Malaysia	37.2 yrs	33.4 yrs
122	Cook Islands	36.9 yrs	42.2 yrs
123	Cabo Verde	36.5 yrs	32.0 yrs
124	Ecuador	36.0 yrs	31.9 yrs
125	Peru	35.9 yrs	32.4 yrs
126	Mexico	35.5 yrs	31.8 yrs
127	Panama	35.4 yrs	32.2 yrs
128	El Salvador	35.2 yrs	30.8 yrs
129	Western Sahara	35.2 yrs	33.8 yrs
130	Kuwait	35.1 yrs	35.0 yrs
131	India	35.0 yrs	31.1 yrs
132	Indonesia	34.5 yrs	32.1 yrs
133	Myanmar	34.5 yrs	31.9 yrs
134	Morocco	34.5 yrs	31.7 yrs
135	Belize	34.3 yrs	29.7 yrs
136	Bahrain	34.1 yrs	33.7 yrs
137	Dominican Republic	33.5 yrs	30.3 yrs
138	Guam	33.4 yrs	32.5 yrs
139	Suriname	33.4 yrs	30.5 yrs
140	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	33.3 yrs	30.4 yrs
141	Lebanon	33.3 yrs	30.4 yrs
142	Libya	33.1 yrs	29.6 yrs
143	American Samoa	32.6 yrs	29.3 yrs
144	Philippines	32.4 yrs	28.6 yrs
145	United Arab Emirates	32.3 yrs	31.8 yrs
146	Tokelau	32.3 yrs	29.1 yrs
147	Qatar	32.2 yrs	33.0 yrs
148	Bangladesh	32.1 yrs	28.0 yrs
149	Algeria	31.6 yrs	29.6 yrs
150	Nicaragua	31.6 yrs	28.1 yrs
151	Niue	31.5 yrs	32.9 yrs
152	Nepal	31.5 yrs	27.5 yrs
153	South Africa	31.2 yrs	29.7 yrs
154	Paraguay	31.1 yrs	28.7 yrs
155	Fiji	31.1 yrs	29.1 yrs
156	Saudi Arabia	30.8 yrs	29.7 yrs
157	Israel	30.7 yrs	29.5 yrs
158	Oman	30.2 yrs	29.9 yrs
159	Turkmenistan	30.1 yrs	28.8 yrs
160	Lao People's Democratic Republic	30.1 yrs	26.9 yrs
161	Guyana	29.9 yrs	27.8 yrs
162	Cambodia	29.8 yrs	27.3 yrs
163	Kazakhstan	29.7 yrs	29.4 yrs
164	Syrian Arab Republic	29.7 yrs	25.9 yrs
165	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	29.6 yrs	26.8 yrs
166	Honduras	29.6 yrs	26.3 yrs
167	Guatemala	29.5 yrs	25.8 yrs
168	Jordan	29.4 yrs	26.2 yrs
169	Djibouti	29.2 yrs	26.6 yrs
170	Mongolia	28.8 yrs	26.9 yrs
171	Haiti	28.6 yrs	25.7 yrs
172	Egypt	28.2 yrs	25.8 yrs
173	Kyrgyzstan	28.0 yrs	26.0 yrs
174	Botswana	27.9 yrs	25.2 yrs
175	Timor-Leste	27.7 yrs	24.1 yrs
176	French Guiana	27.3 yrs	25.3 yrs
177	Uzbekistan	27.0 yrs	26.7 yrs
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	26.9 yrs	24.5 yrs
179	Eswatini	26.8 yrs	23.9 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	26.5 yrs	24.2 yrs
181	Lesotho	26.1 yrs	23.2 yrs
182	Kiribati	25.6 yrs	23.4 yrs
183	Tuvalu	25.6 yrs	23.8 yrs
184	Iraq	25.5 yrs	22.4 yrs
185	Tajikistan	25.3 yrs	22.9 yrs
186	Ghana	25.1 yrs	22.6 yrs
187	Namibia	25.0 yrs	22.4 yrs
188	State of Palestine	24.9 yrs	21.6 yrs
189	Tonga	24.6 yrs	21.8 yrs
190	Marshall Islands	24.6 yrs	21.5 yrs
191	Solomon Islands	24.4 yrs	22.0 yrs
192	Pakistan	24.3 yrs	21.8 yrs
193	Kenya	24.2 yrs	21.7 yrs
194	Nauru	24.1 yrs	21.2 yrs
195	Gabon	23.9 yrs	22.0 yrs
196	Sierra Leone	23.8 yrs	21.2 yrs
197	Rwanda	23.6 yrs	21.5 yrs
198	Guinea-Bissau	23.5 yrs	20.8 yrs
199	Comoros	23.5 yrs	21.4 yrs
200	Senegal	23.5 yrs	21.0 yrs
201	South Sudan	23.5 yrs	20.7 yrs
202	Gambia	23.4 yrs	20.2 yrs
203	Vanuatu	23.4 yrs	21.1 yrs
204	Eritrea	23.1 yrs	20.9 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	23.0 yrs	20.9 yrs
206	Equatorial Guinea	22.9 yrs	21.3 yrs
207	Samoa	22.7 yrs	20.5 yrs
208	Liberia	22.6 yrs	20.2 yrs
209	Burkina Faso	22.5 yrs	19.4 yrs
210	Ethiopia	22.3 yrs	20.4 yrs
211	Malawi	22.3 yrs	19.8 yrs
212	Madagascar	22.2 yrs	20.3 yrs
213	Nigeria	21.9 yrs	19.5 yrs
214	Guinea	21.8 yrs	19.5 yrs
215	Zimbabwe	21.8 yrs	19.5 yrs
216	Togo	21.8 yrs	20.1 yrs
217	Congo	21.7 yrs	19.7 yrs
218	Sudan	21.7 yrs	19.6 yrs
219	Zambia	21.6 yrs	19.3 yrs
220	Yemen	21.4 yrs	19.1 yrs
221	Côte d'Ivoire	21.4 yrs	19.5 yrs
222	Benin	21.2 yrs	19.0 yrs
223	Cameroon	21.1 yrs	19.1 yrs
224	Uganda	21.0 yrs	18.3 yrs
225	Afghanistan	20.7 yrs	18.4 yrs
226	Burundi	20.7 yrs	18.2 yrs
227	Mayotte	20.6 yrs	18.5 yrs
228	Mauritania	20.3 yrs	18.4 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	20.0 yrs	18.3 yrs
230	Mozambique	19.4 yrs	17.4 yrs
231	Angola	19.1 yrs	17.4 yrs
232	Niger	18.8 yrs	16.6 yrs
233	Mali	18.4 yrs	16.7 yrs
234	Somalia	18.1 yrs	16.1 yrs
235	Democratic Republic of the Congo	18.0 yrs	16.3 yrs
236	Chad	17.7 yrs	16.1 yrs
237	Central African Republic	16.6 yrs	15.3 yrs

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