Median age by country, 2045

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

◀▶2045

#	Country / area	Median age	2035
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	59.3 yrs	53.5 yrs
2	Republic of Korea	55.0 yrs	51.2 yrs
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	54.8 yrs	50.7 yrs
4	China, Macao SAR	53.5 yrs	46.6 yrs
5	Japan	53.0 yrs	52.5 yrs
6	Puerto Rico	52.8 yrs	49.5 yrs
7	Andorra	52.7 yrs	48.4 yrs
8	Italy	52.7 yrs	51.3 yrs
9	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	52.7 yrs	48.4 yrs
10	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	52.3 yrs	50.8 yrs
11	Bermuda	52.1 yrs	50.1 yrs
12	Spain	51.7 yrs	49.8 yrs
13	San Marino	51.6 yrs	52.0 yrs
14	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.2 yrs	49.5 yrs
15	Martinique	51.0 yrs	51.8 yrs
16	Saint Helena	50.9 yrs	51.2 yrs
17	Malta	50.9 yrs	45.8 yrs
18	Poland	50.8 yrs	47.4 yrs
19	China	50.6 yrs	45.8 yrs
20	Greece	50.3 yrs	49.9 yrs
21	Ukraine	49.9 yrs	46.1 yrs
22	Slovakia	49.1 yrs	46.4 yrs
23	Lithuania	49.1 yrs	45.5 yrs
24	Estonia	48.9 yrs	46.5 yrs
25	Austria	48.9 yrs	46.5 yrs
26	Cuba	48.8 yrs	45.7 yrs
27	Slovenia	48.7 yrs	47.9 yrs
28	Portugal	48.7 yrs	49.1 yrs
29	Albania	48.6 yrs	43.0 yrs
30	Croatia	48.6 yrs	47.7 yrs
31	Bulgaria	48.6 yrs	47.2 yrs
32	Isle of Man	48.5 yrs	47.8 yrs
33	Latvia	48.5 yrs	46.6 yrs
34	Germany	48.3 yrs	47.1 yrs
35	Belarus	48.3 yrs	45.8 yrs
36	Guernsey	48.1 yrs	46.5 yrs
37	Serbia	48.1 yrs	46.7 yrs
38	Singapore	48.0 yrs	41.9 yrs
39	Switzerland	47.9 yrs	45.9 yrs
40	British Virgin Islands	47.8 yrs	43.9 yrs
41	Thailand	47.5 yrs	44.4 yrs
42	Maldives	47.2 yrs	40.4 yrs
43	Czechia	47.1 yrs	46.5 yrs
44	Mauritius	47.1 yrs	42.6 yrs
45	North Macedonia	47.0 yrs	44.5 yrs
46	Cyprus	46.8 yrs	43.3 yrs
47	Chile	46.8 yrs	42.0 yrs
48	Liechtenstein	46.7 yrs	46.1 yrs
49	Guadeloupe	46.6 yrs	48.7 yrs
50	Jersey	46.4 yrs	45.9 yrs
51	Finland	46.4 yrs	45.3 yrs
52	Romania	46.2 yrs	45.5 yrs
53	Turks and Caicos Islands	46.1 yrs	43.2 yrs
54	Montserrat	46.0 yrs	44.9 yrs
55	Curaçao	45.9 yrs	41.8 yrs
56	Hungary	45.9 yrs	45.3 yrs
57	French Polynesia	45.5 yrs	41.7 yrs
58	Anguilla	45.2 yrs	42.3 yrs
59	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	45.2 yrs	42.3 yrs
60	Luxembourg	45.2 yrs	42.5 yrs
61	Armenia	45.1 yrs	42.1 yrs
62	Belgium	45.1 yrs	44.0 yrs
63	Costa Rica	44.9 yrs	40.3 yrs
64	Norway	44.9 yrs	42.8 yrs
65	Trinidad and Tobago	44.8 yrs	42.1 yrs
66	Netherlands	44.6 yrs	42.8 yrs
67	Canada	44.6 yrs	42.8 yrs
68	Montenegro	44.4 yrs	42.7 yrs
69	Monaco	44.3 yrs	47.9 yrs
70	Antigua and Barbuda	44.2 yrs	40.3 yrs
71	Cayman Islands	44.2 yrs	42.4 yrs
72	Saint Lucia	43.9 yrs	39.4 yrs
73	Sweden	43.8 yrs	42.7 yrs
74	Denmark	43.8 yrs	42.3 yrs
75	Jamaica	43.7 yrs	38.4 yrs
76	Iceland	43.6 yrs	40.3 yrs
77	Aruba	43.5 yrs	43.4 yrs
78	Uruguay	43.5 yrs	39.9 yrs
79	Barbados	43.4 yrs	41.6 yrs
80	France	43.2 yrs	43.5 yrs
81	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.1 yrs	43.1 yrs
82	Saint Kitts and Nevis	43.0 yrs	39.8 yrs
83	Grenada	42.8 yrs	38.9 yrs
84	Holy See	42.7 yrs	46.7 yrs
85	Saint Barthélemy	42.6 yrs	40.8 yrs
86	Türkiye	42.6 yrs	38.1 yrs
87	United Kingdom	42.5 yrs	41.5 yrs
88	Brazil	42.5 yrs	38.9 yrs
89	United States Virgin Islands	42.5 yrs	44.6 yrs
90	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	42.3 yrs	39.6 yrs
91	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	42.2 yrs	39.0 yrs
92	Russian Federation	42.2 yrs	43.8 yrs
93	New Zealand	42.1 yrs	40.7 yrs
94	Gibraltar	41.9 yrs	39.7 yrs
95	Seychelles	41.9 yrs	38.5 yrs
96	Ireland	41.8 yrs	40.5 yrs
97	Australia	41.7 yrs	40.7 yrs
98	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	41.7 yrs	37.3 yrs
99	Colombia	41.7 yrs	37.2 yrs
100	Dominica	41.5 yrs	40.0 yrs
101	Bahamas	41.4 yrs	39.0 yrs
102	United States of America	41.2 yrs	40.5 yrs
103	Republic of Moldova	41.1 yrs	42.4 yrs
104	Wallis and Futuna Islands	40.9 yrs	40.6 yrs
105	Palau	40.9 yrs	41.6 yrs
106	Réunion	40.5 yrs	40.5 yrs
107	Brunei Darussalam	40.3 yrs	37.2 yrs
108	Argentina	40.1 yrs	36.7 yrs
109	Georgia	40.0 yrs	39.7 yrs
110	Greenland	39.9 yrs	39.0 yrs
111	Bhutan	39.9 yrs	35.3 yrs
112	New Caledonia	39.5 yrs	37.1 yrs
113	Saint Martin (French part)	39.3 yrs	51.3 yrs
114	Faroe Islands	39.3 yrs	37.7 yrs
115	Tunisia	39.1 yrs	36.9 yrs
116	Viet Nam	39.0 yrs	37.4 yrs
117	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	38.9 yrs	37.4 yrs
118	Sri Lanka	38.7 yrs	36.1 yrs
119	Malaysia	38.6 yrs	35.0 yrs
120	Northern Mariana Islands	38.6 yrs	42.1 yrs
121	Azerbaijan	38.4 yrs	37.5 yrs
122	Cabo Verde	38.4 yrs	33.9 yrs
123	Ecuador	37.5 yrs	33.6 yrs
124	Peru	37.3 yrs	33.8 yrs
125	Mexico	36.9 yrs	33.3 yrs
126	El Salvador	36.8 yrs	32.7 yrs
127	Panama	36.6 yrs	33.5 yrs
128	India	36.5 yrs	32.7 yrs
129	Cook Islands	36.5 yrs	43.8 yrs
130	Belize	36.0 yrs	31.6 yrs
131	Morocco	35.8 yrs	32.8 yrs
132	Western Sahara	35.8 yrs	34.4 yrs
133	Indonesia	35.5 yrs	33.1 yrs
134	Myanmar	35.4 yrs	33.0 yrs
135	Kuwait	35.3 yrs	34.9 yrs
136	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	34.7 yrs	31.3 yrs
137	Dominican Republic	34.6 yrs	31.7 yrs
138	Lebanon	34.6 yrs	31.6 yrs
139	Suriname	34.5 yrs	31.8 yrs
140	Bahrain	34.5 yrs	33.8 yrs
141	Libya	34.5 yrs	31.0 yrs
142	Philippines	33.9 yrs	30.1 yrs
143	American Samoa	33.9 yrs	30.5 yrs
144	Guam	33.8 yrs	33.0 yrs
145	Bangladesh	33.7 yrs	29.6 yrs
146	Tokelau	33.6 yrs	30.4 yrs
147	Nicaragua	33.1 yrs	29.5 yrs
148	Nepal	33.1 yrs	29.1 yrs
149	Algeria	32.8 yrs	30.2 yrs
150	United Arab Emirates	32.4 yrs	32.0 yrs
151	Qatar	32.3 yrs	32.3 yrs
152	Niue	32.3 yrs	31.3 yrs
153	Paraguay	32.1 yrs	29.7 yrs
154	Fiji	32.0 yrs	29.8 yrs
155	South Africa	31.8 yrs	30.1 yrs
156	Lao People's Democratic Republic	31.4 yrs	28.1 yrs
157	Israel	31.3 yrs	29.9 yrs
158	Saudi Arabia	31.3 yrs	30.0 yrs
159	Syrian Arab Republic	31.2 yrs	27.3 yrs
160	Turkmenistan	31.2 yrs	29.3 yrs
161	Guatemala	31.0 yrs	27.3 yrs
162	Guyana	30.9 yrs	28.6 yrs
163	Cambodia	30.8 yrs	28.2 yrs
164	Honduras	30.8 yrs	27.6 yrs
165	Oman	30.7 yrs	29.9 yrs
166	Jordan	30.7 yrs	27.4 yrs
167	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	30.6 yrs	27.9 yrs
168	Kazakhstan	30.4 yrs	29.1 yrs
169	Mongolia	30.2 yrs	27.3 yrs
170	Djibouti	30.1 yrs	27.8 yrs
171	Haiti	29.7 yrs	26.9 yrs
172	Egypt	29.4 yrs	26.7 yrs
173	Timor-Leste	29.1 yrs	25.6 yrs
174	Kyrgyzstan	29.0 yrs	26.6 yrs
175	Botswana	28.9 yrs	26.3 yrs
176	Eswatini	27.9 yrs	25.1 yrs
177	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	27.9 yrs	25.4 yrs
178	French Guiana	27.9 yrs	26.2 yrs
179	Uzbekistan	27.4 yrs	26.6 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	27.4 yrs	25.1 yrs
181	Lesotho	27.4 yrs	24.3 yrs
182	Tuvalu	26.7 yrs	24.3 yrs
183	Iraq	26.6 yrs	23.5 yrs
184	Kiribati	26.5 yrs	24.2 yrs
185	Tajikistan	26.4 yrs	23.7 yrs
186	State of Palestine	26.3 yrs	22.9 yrs
187	Namibia	26.2 yrs	23.4 yrs
188	Ghana	25.9 yrs	23.6 yrs
189	Marshall Islands	25.8 yrs	22.8 yrs
190	Tonga	25.5 yrs	22.9 yrs
191	Solomon Islands	25.3 yrs	22.9 yrs
192	Kenya	25.1 yrs	22.8 yrs
193	Pakistan	25.1 yrs	22.8 yrs
194	Sierra Leone	24.9 yrs	22.3 yrs
195	Nauru	24.8 yrs	22.4 yrs
196	Gabon	24.7 yrs	22.7 yrs
197	Gambia	24.6 yrs	21.5 yrs
198	Rwanda	24.6 yrs	22.3 yrs
199	Guinea-Bissau	24.5 yrs	21.8 yrs
200	Senegal	24.4 yrs	22.0 yrs
201	Comoros	24.3 yrs	22.2 yrs
202	Vanuatu	24.3 yrs	22.0 yrs
203	South Sudan	24.1 yrs	22.0 yrs
204	Eritrea	23.9 yrs	21.8 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	23.7 yrs	21.7 yrs
206	Burkina Faso	23.6 yrs	20.7 yrs
207	Liberia	23.5 yrs	21.2 yrs
208	Equatorial Guinea	23.5 yrs	21.9 yrs
209	Samoa	23.4 yrs	21.4 yrs
210	Ethiopia	23.3 yrs	21.1 yrs
211	Malawi	23.3 yrs	20.9 yrs
212	Madagascar	23.1 yrs	21.1 yrs
213	Guinea	22.9 yrs	20.4 yrs
214	Sudan	22.7 yrs	20.3 yrs
215	Nigeria	22.7 yrs	20.5 yrs
216	Yemen	22.6 yrs	19.9 yrs
217	Zimbabwe	22.6 yrs	20.6 yrs
218	Zambia	22.5 yrs	20.3 yrs
219	Togo	22.5 yrs	20.8 yrs
220	Uganda	22.3 yrs	19.3 yrs
221	Congo	22.3 yrs	20.6 yrs
222	Cameroon	22.0 yrs	19.9 yrs
223	Côte d'Ivoire	22.0 yrs	20.3 yrs
224	Benin	21.9 yrs	19.9 yrs
225	Afghanistan	21.7 yrs	19.3 yrs
226	Burundi	21.5 yrs	19.3 yrs
227	Mayotte	21.4 yrs	19.5 yrs
228	Mauritania	21.2 yrs	19.1 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	20.8 yrs	18.9 yrs
230	Mozambique	20.4 yrs	18.2 yrs
231	Angola	19.9 yrs	18.1 yrs
232	Niger	19.8 yrs	17.4 yrs
233	Mali	19.1 yrs	17.3 yrs
234	Somalia	19.0 yrs	16.8 yrs
235	Democratic Republic of the Congo	18.9 yrs	16.9 yrs
236	Chad	18.6 yrs	16.7 yrs
237	Central African Republic	17.7 yrs	15.6 yrs

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