Median age by country, 2042

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

◀▶2042

#	Country / area	Median age	2032
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	57.7 yrs	51.7 yrs
2	Republic of Korea	54.0 yrs	49.6 yrs
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	53.7 yrs	49.0 yrs
4	Japan	53.1 yrs	52.0 yrs
5	Italy	52.3 yrs	50.5 yrs
6	San Marino	52.0 yrs	51.4 yrs
7	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	51.8 yrs	49.7 yrs
8	Bermuda	51.8 yrs	48.9 yrs
9	Puerto Rico	51.8 yrs	48.5 yrs
10	Martinique	51.6 yrs	51.4 yrs
11	China, Macao SAR	51.6 yrs	44.5 yrs
12	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	51.5 yrs	46.8 yrs
13	Andorra	51.4 yrs	47.0 yrs
14	Spain	51.4 yrs	48.8 yrs
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.0 yrs	48.4 yrs
16	Saint Helena	50.6 yrs	50.9 yrs
17	Greece	50.4 yrs	49.1 yrs
18	Saint Martin (French part)	50.4 yrs	49.8 yrs
19	Poland	50.0 yrs	46.0 yrs
20	Malta	49.5 yrs	44.3 yrs
21	China	49.5 yrs	44.1 yrs
22	Ukraine	49.0 yrs	44.7 yrs
23	Portugal	49.0 yrs	48.7 yrs
24	Slovenia	48.9 yrs	47.1 yrs
25	Estonia	48.7 yrs	45.4 yrs
26	Bulgaria	48.7 yrs	46.4 yrs
27	Slovakia	48.6 yrs	45.3 yrs
28	Latvia	48.5 yrs	45.6 yrs
29	Austria	48.4 yrs	45.7 yrs
30	Croatia	48.4 yrs	47.1 yrs
31	Isle of Man	48.4 yrs	47.4 yrs
32	Germany	48.3 yrs	46.6 yrs
33	Cuba	48.2 yrs	44.6 yrs
34	Lithuania	48.2 yrs	44.5 yrs
35	Belarus	48.0 yrs	44.5 yrs
36	Guernsey	47.9 yrs	45.8 yrs
37	Guadeloupe	47.9 yrs	48.5 yrs
38	Serbia	47.7 yrs	46.1 yrs
39	Switzerland	47.6 yrs	45.0 yrs
40	Czechia	47.5 yrs	45.9 yrs
41	Albania	47.0 yrs	41.2 yrs
42	British Virgin Islands	46.8 yrs	42.4 yrs
43	Thailand	46.6 yrs	43.3 yrs
44	Liechtenstein	46.6 yrs	45.7 yrs
45	Jersey	46.4 yrs	45.4 yrs
46	North Macedonia	46.4 yrs	43.5 yrs
47	Finland	46.3 yrs	44.7 yrs
48	Romania	46.2 yrs	44.6 yrs
49	Singapore	46.1 yrs	40.2 yrs
50	Cyprus	46.0 yrs	41.9 yrs
51	Hungary	46.0 yrs	44.9 yrs
52	Montserrat	46.0 yrs	43.9 yrs
53	Mauritius	45.8 yrs	41.1 yrs
54	Chile	45.5 yrs	40.5 yrs
55	Turks and Caicos Islands	45.3 yrs	42.2 yrs
56	Maldives	45.3 yrs	38.1 yrs
57	Monaco	45.1 yrs	49.4 yrs
58	Belgium	45.0 yrs	43.4 yrs
59	Curaçao	44.8 yrs	40.7 yrs
60	Armenia	44.6 yrs	40.6 yrs
61	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	44.6 yrs	41.3 yrs
62	Luxembourg	44.6 yrs	41.6 yrs
63	French Polynesia	44.5 yrs	40.2 yrs
64	Norway	44.4 yrs	41.9 yrs
65	Anguilla	44.2 yrs	41.4 yrs
66	Trinidad and Tobago	44.2 yrs	41.0 yrs
67	Netherlands	44.1 yrs	42.3 yrs
68	Canada	44.1 yrs	42.1 yrs
69	Cayman Islands	44.0 yrs	41.3 yrs
70	Montenegro	44.0 yrs	42.1 yrs
71	Sweden	43.8 yrs	41.9 yrs
72	Aruba	43.6 yrs	42.9 yrs
73	Costa Rica	43.6 yrs	38.8 yrs
74	Denmark	43.4 yrs	41.8 yrs
75	Russian Federation	43.3 yrs	42.9 yrs
76	Antigua and Barbuda	43.2 yrs	39.1 yrs
77	France	43.2 yrs	43.3 yrs
78	United States Virgin Islands	43.2 yrs	44.9 yrs
79	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.1 yrs	42.9 yrs
80	Iceland	42.8 yrs	39.0 yrs
81	Barbados	42.8 yrs	40.9 yrs
82	Saint Lucia	42.6 yrs	37.9 yrs
83	Uruguay	42.4 yrs	38.8 yrs
84	United Kingdom	42.3 yrs	41.0 yrs
85	Jamaica	42.2 yrs	36.7 yrs
86	Holy See	42.2 yrs	49.5 yrs
87	Republic of Moldova	42.2 yrs	41.5 yrs
88	Saint Kitts and Nevis	42.0 yrs	38.8 yrs
89	Saint Barthélemy	41.8 yrs	40.3 yrs
90	New Zealand	41.8 yrs	39.8 yrs
91	Grenada	41.7 yrs	37.6 yrs
92	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	41.7 yrs	38.6 yrs
93	Australia	41.6 yrs	40.0 yrs
94	Brazil	41.5 yrs	37.7 yrs
95	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	41.4 yrs	37.7 yrs
96	Türkiye	41.4 yrs	36.7 yrs
97	Ireland	41.3 yrs	40.2 yrs
98	Palau	41.3 yrs	40.7 yrs
99	Gibraltar	41.2 yrs	39.3 yrs
100	Dominica	41.2 yrs	39.0 yrs
101	Seychelles	41.1 yrs	37.2 yrs
102	United States of America	41.0 yrs	40.0 yrs
103	Bahamas	40.8 yrs	37.9 yrs
104	Colombia	40.4 yrs	35.8 yrs
105	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	40.2 yrs	36.0 yrs
106	Réunion	40.2 yrs	40.0 yrs
107	Greenland	40.1 yrs	37.9 yrs
108	Georgia	40.1 yrs	39.2 yrs
109	Wallis and Futuna Islands	40.0 yrs	40.4 yrs
110	Brunei Darussalam	39.5 yrs	35.9 yrs
111	Argentina	39.1 yrs	35.7 yrs
112	New Caledonia	38.8 yrs	36.5 yrs
113	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	38.7 yrs	36.6 yrs
114	Tunisia	38.6 yrs	35.9 yrs
115	Faroe Islands	38.6 yrs	37.7 yrs
116	Bhutan	38.5 yrs	34.0 yrs
117	Viet Nam	38.5 yrs	36.5 yrs
118	Northern Mariana Islands	38.5 yrs	41.7 yrs
119	Azerbaijan	38.0 yrs	36.7 yrs
120	Sri Lanka	37.9 yrs	35.3 yrs
121	Malaysia	37.6 yrs	33.8 yrs
122	Cabo Verde	37.0 yrs	32.5 yrs
123	Ecuador	36.4 yrs	32.3 yrs
124	Cook Islands	36.4 yrs	42.7 yrs
125	Peru	36.3 yrs	32.7 yrs
126	Mexico	35.9 yrs	32.2 yrs
127	Panama	35.7 yrs	32.5 yrs
128	El Salvador	35.6 yrs	31.3 yrs
129	India	35.4 yrs	31.5 yrs
130	Western Sahara	35.3 yrs	34.0 yrs
131	Kuwait	35.1 yrs	35.0 yrs
132	Indonesia	34.8 yrs	32.4 yrs
133	Belize	34.8 yrs	30.2 yrs
134	Morocco	34.8 yrs	32.0 yrs
135	Myanmar	34.7 yrs	32.1 yrs
136	Bahrain	34.2 yrs	33.7 yrs
137	Dominican Republic	33.8 yrs	30.7 yrs
138	Suriname	33.7 yrs	30.8 yrs
139	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	33.6 yrs	30.6 yrs
140	Lebanon	33.6 yrs	30.7 yrs
141	Guam	33.5 yrs	32.7 yrs
142	Libya	33.5 yrs	29.9 yrs
143	American Samoa	32.9 yrs	29.6 yrs
144	Philippines	32.8 yrs	29.0 yrs
145	Tokelau	32.6 yrs	29.5 yrs
146	Bangladesh	32.5 yrs	28.4 yrs
147	United Arab Emirates	32.4 yrs	31.9 yrs
148	Qatar	32.2 yrs	32.8 yrs
149	Nicaragua	32.0 yrs	28.4 yrs
150	Algeria	31.9 yrs	29.8 yrs
151	Nepal	31.9 yrs	27.9 yrs
152	Niue	31.6 yrs	32.5 yrs
153	Paraguay	31.4 yrs	29.0 yrs
154	Fiji	31.3 yrs	29.3 yrs
155	South Africa	31.3 yrs	29.9 yrs
156	Saudi Arabia	30.9 yrs	29.8 yrs
157	Israel	30.8 yrs	29.6 yrs
158	Turkmenistan	30.4 yrs	29.0 yrs
159	Lao People's Democratic Republic	30.4 yrs	27.2 yrs
160	Oman	30.3 yrs	29.9 yrs
161	Guyana	30.1 yrs	28.0 yrs
162	Cambodia	30.1 yrs	27.5 yrs
163	Syrian Arab Republic	30.1 yrs	26.2 yrs
164	Kazakhstan	29.9 yrs	29.2 yrs
165	Guatemala	29.9 yrs	26.1 yrs
166	Honduras	29.9 yrs	26.7 yrs
167	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	29.8 yrs	27.1 yrs
168	Jordan	29.8 yrs	26.4 yrs
169	Djibouti	29.5 yrs	26.9 yrs
170	Mongolia	29.1 yrs	27.0 yrs
171	Haiti	28.9 yrs	26.0 yrs
172	Egypt	28.5 yrs	26.0 yrs
173	Kyrgyzstan	28.2 yrs	26.1 yrs
174	Botswana	28.1 yrs	25.5 yrs
175	Timor-Leste	28.0 yrs	24.5 yrs
176	French Guiana	27.5 yrs	25.5 yrs
177	Uzbekistan	27.1 yrs	26.6 yrs
178	Eswatini	27.1 yrs	24.2 yrs
179	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	27.1 yrs	24.7 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	26.7 yrs	24.4 yrs
181	Lesotho	26.4 yrs	23.5 yrs
182	Tuvalu	25.9 yrs	23.9 yrs
183	Iraq	25.8 yrs	22.7 yrs
184	Kiribati	25.8 yrs	23.6 yrs
185	Tajikistan	25.6 yrs	23.0 yrs
186	Ghana	25.3 yrs	22.9 yrs
187	Namibia	25.3 yrs	22.6 yrs
188	State of Palestine	25.2 yrs	21.9 yrs
189	Tonga	24.9 yrs	22.1 yrs
190	Marshall Islands	24.9 yrs	21.8 yrs
191	Solomon Islands	24.7 yrs	22.2 yrs
192	Pakistan	24.5 yrs	22.1 yrs
193	Kenya	24.4 yrs	21.9 yrs
194	Nauru	24.3 yrs	21.5 yrs
195	Gabon	24.1 yrs	22.2 yrs
196	Sierra Leone	24.1 yrs	21.4 yrs
197	Rwanda	23.9 yrs	21.7 yrs
198	Gambia	23.7 yrs	20.5 yrs
199	Guinea-Bissau	23.7 yrs	21.0 yrs
200	Comoros	23.7 yrs	21.6 yrs
201	Senegal	23.7 yrs	21.3 yrs
202	South Sudan	23.7 yrs	21.1 yrs
203	Vanuatu	23.6 yrs	21.3 yrs
204	Eritrea	23.3 yrs	21.1 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	23.2 yrs	21.1 yrs
206	Equatorial Guinea	23.1 yrs	21.4 yrs
207	Samoa	22.9 yrs	20.7 yrs
208	Liberia	22.9 yrs	20.4 yrs
209	Burkina Faso	22.8 yrs	19.7 yrs
210	Ethiopia	22.6 yrs	20.6 yrs
211	Malawi	22.6 yrs	20.1 yrs
212	Madagascar	22.4 yrs	20.5 yrs
213	Guinea	22.1 yrs	19.7 yrs
214	Nigeria	22.1 yrs	19.7 yrs
215	Zimbabwe	22.0 yrs	19.8 yrs
216	Togo	22.0 yrs	20.3 yrs
217	Sudan	21.9 yrs	19.8 yrs
218	Congo	21.8 yrs	20.0 yrs
219	Zambia	21.8 yrs	19.6 yrs
220	Yemen	21.7 yrs	19.3 yrs
221	Côte d'Ivoire	21.6 yrs	19.7 yrs
222	Cameroon	21.4 yrs	19.3 yrs
223	Benin	21.4 yrs	19.2 yrs
224	Uganda	21.3 yrs	18.5 yrs
225	Afghanistan	21.0 yrs	18.6 yrs
226	Burundi	20.9 yrs	18.4 yrs
227	Mayotte	20.8 yrs	18.8 yrs
228	Mauritania	20.5 yrs	18.6 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	20.2 yrs	18.4 yrs
230	Mozambique	19.7 yrs	17.6 yrs
231	Angola	19.3 yrs	17.6 yrs
232	Niger	19.0 yrs	16.8 yrs
233	Mali	18.5 yrs	16.8 yrs
234	Somalia	18.3 yrs	16.3 yrs
235	Democratic Republic of the Congo	18.2 yrs	16.4 yrs
236	Chad	17.9 yrs	16.3 yrs
237	Central African Republic	16.9 yrs	15.4 yrs

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