Median age by country, 2046

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

◀▶2046

#	Country / area	Median age	2036
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	59.8 yrs	54.2 yrs
2	Republic of Korea	55.3 yrs	51.6 yrs
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	55.1 yrs	51.2 yrs
4	China, Macao SAR	54.0 yrs	47.3 yrs
5	Puerto Rico	53.2 yrs	49.8 yrs
6	Andorra	53.1 yrs	48.8 yrs
7	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	53.1 yrs	48.9 yrs
8	Japan	53.0 yrs	52.7 yrs
9	Italy	52.8 yrs	51.5 yrs
10	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	52.4 yrs	51.1 yrs
11	Bermuda	52.1 yrs	50.4 yrs
12	Spain	51.8 yrs	50.1 yrs
13	San Marino	51.4 yrs	52.1 yrs
14	Malta	51.4 yrs	46.3 yrs
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.2 yrs	49.7 yrs
16	Poland	51.0 yrs	47.8 yrs
17	China	51.0 yrs	46.4 yrs
18	Martinique	50.5 yrs	51.8 yrs
19	Saint Helena	50.4 yrs	51.3 yrs
20	Greece	50.2 yrs	50.1 yrs
21	Ukraine	50.1 yrs	46.6 yrs
22	Lithuania	49.4 yrs	45.9 yrs
23	Albania	49.2 yrs	43.6 yrs
24	Slovakia	49.2 yrs	46.7 yrs
25	Austria	49.0 yrs	46.8 yrs
26	Cuba	49.0 yrs	46.1 yrs
27	Estonia	48.9 yrs	46.9 yrs
28	Croatia	48.7 yrs	47.9 yrs
29	Singapore	48.6 yrs	42.5 yrs
30	Slovenia	48.6 yrs	48.1 yrs
31	Portugal	48.6 yrs	49.2 yrs
32	Bulgaria	48.5 yrs	47.4 yrs
33	Isle of Man	48.5 yrs	47.9 yrs
34	Latvia	48.4 yrs	46.9 yrs
35	Germany	48.3 yrs	47.4 yrs
36	Belarus	48.3 yrs	46.2 yrs
37	Guernsey	48.2 yrs	46.7 yrs
38	Serbia	48.2 yrs	46.9 yrs
39	British Virgin Islands	48.1 yrs	44.3 yrs
40	Switzerland	47.9 yrs	46.1 yrs
41	Thailand	47.8 yrs	44.7 yrs
42	Maldives	47.7 yrs	41.1 yrs
43	Mauritius	47.5 yrs	43.1 yrs
44	Chile	47.3 yrs	42.5 yrs
45	North Macedonia	47.2 yrs	44.8 yrs
46	Cyprus	47.0 yrs	43.8 yrs
47	Czechia	46.8 yrs	46.7 yrs
48	Liechtenstein	46.7 yrs	46.3 yrs
49	Jersey	46.4 yrs	46.0 yrs
50	Finland	46.4 yrs	45.4 yrs
51	Turks and Caicos Islands	46.3 yrs	43.5 yrs
52	Curaçao	46.2 yrs	42.3 yrs
53	Romania	46.2 yrs	45.8 yrs
54	Guadeloupe	46.1 yrs	48.6 yrs
55	French Polynesia	45.9 yrs	42.2 yrs
56	Hungary	45.8 yrs	45.4 yrs
57	Montserrat	45.8 yrs	45.1 yrs
58	Anguilla	45.6 yrs	42.6 yrs
59	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	45.4 yrs	42.7 yrs
60	Costa Rica	45.4 yrs	40.8 yrs
61	Luxembourg	45.3 yrs	42.8 yrs
62	Armenia	45.1 yrs	42.6 yrs
63	Belgium	45.1 yrs	44.2 yrs
64	Trinidad and Tobago	45.0 yrs	42.5 yrs
65	Norway	45.0 yrs	43.1 yrs
66	Netherlands	44.8 yrs	43.0 yrs
67	Canada	44.7 yrs	43.0 yrs
68	Antigua and Barbuda	44.6 yrs	40.7 yrs
69	Montenegro	44.5 yrs	42.9 yrs
70	Saint Lucia	44.3 yrs	39.9 yrs
71	Cayman Islands	44.2 yrs	42.7 yrs
72	Jamaica	44.2 yrs	39.0 yrs
73	Monaco	44.0 yrs	47.5 yrs
74	Iceland	43.9 yrs	40.7 yrs
75	Denmark	43.9 yrs	42.4 yrs
76	Uruguay	43.8 yrs	40.3 yrs
77	Sweden	43.8 yrs	43.0 yrs
78	Aruba	43.6 yrs	43.5 yrs
79	Barbados	43.6 yrs	41.8 yrs
80	Saint Kitts and Nevis	43.2 yrs	40.1 yrs
81	France	43.2 yrs	43.5 yrs
82	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.1 yrs	43.1 yrs
83	Grenada	43.0 yrs	39.3 yrs
84	Türkiye	43.0 yrs	38.6 yrs
85	Saint Barthélemy	42.9 yrs	40.9 yrs
86	Holy See	42.9 yrs	45.8 yrs
87	Brazil	42.8 yrs	39.3 yrs
88	United Kingdom	42.5 yrs	41.7 yrs
89	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	42.5 yrs	39.9 yrs
90	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	42.4 yrs	39.4 yrs
91	United States Virgin Islands	42.4 yrs	44.5 yrs
92	Gibraltar	42.2 yrs	39.9 yrs
93	New Zealand	42.2 yrs	40.9 yrs
94	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	42.1 yrs	37.6 yrs
95	Colombia	42.1 yrs	37.7 yrs
96	Ireland	42.0 yrs	40.6 yrs
97	Seychelles	42.0 yrs	39.0 yrs
98	Russian Federation	42.0 yrs	44.0 yrs
99	Australia	41.7 yrs	40.9 yrs
100	Dominica	41.6 yrs	40.3 yrs
101	Bahamas	41.6 yrs	39.3 yrs
102	United States of America	41.3 yrs	40.6 yrs
103	Wallis and Futuna Islands	41.3 yrs	40.6 yrs
104	Palau	41.0 yrs	41.8 yrs
105	Republic of Moldova	40.9 yrs	42.6 yrs
106	Brunei Darussalam	40.6 yrs	37.6 yrs
107	Réunion	40.6 yrs	40.4 yrs
108	Argentina	40.5 yrs	37.1 yrs
109	Bhutan	40.4 yrs	35.8 yrs
110	Georgia	40.0 yrs	39.8 yrs
111	Greenland	39.7 yrs	39.3 yrs
112	New Caledonia	39.7 yrs	37.3 yrs
113	Faroe Islands	39.5 yrs	37.7 yrs
114	Tunisia	39.3 yrs	37.2 yrs
115	Viet Nam	39.2 yrs	37.6 yrs
116	Sri Lanka	39.0 yrs	36.4 yrs
117	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	39.0 yrs	37.6 yrs
118	Cabo Verde	38.9 yrs	34.3 yrs
119	Malaysia	38.9 yrs	35.4 yrs
120	Saint Martin (French part)	38.8 yrs	51.5 yrs
121	Northern Mariana Islands	38.8 yrs	41.9 yrs
122	Azerbaijan	38.6 yrs	37.7 yrs
123	Ecuador	37.9 yrs	34.0 yrs
124	Peru	37.7 yrs	34.1 yrs
125	El Salvador	37.3 yrs	33.2 yrs
126	Mexico	37.3 yrs	33.7 yrs
127	India	36.9 yrs	33.1 yrs
128	Panama	36.9 yrs	33.8 yrs
129	Cook Islands	36.8 yrs	44.0 yrs
130	Belize	36.4 yrs	32.1 yrs
131	Morocco	36.1 yrs	33.1 yrs
132	Western Sahara	35.9 yrs	34.5 yrs
133	Indonesia	35.8 yrs	33.3 yrs
134	Myanmar	35.6 yrs	33.2 yrs
135	Kuwait	35.4 yrs	34.9 yrs
136	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	35.1 yrs	31.6 yrs
137	Dominican Republic	35.0 yrs	32.0 yrs
138	Lebanon	35.0 yrs	31.9 yrs
139	Libya	34.9 yrs	31.3 yrs
140	Suriname	34.8 yrs	32.1 yrs
141	Bahrain	34.6 yrs	33.9 yrs
142	Philippines	34.3 yrs	30.5 yrs
143	American Samoa	34.3 yrs	30.8 yrs
144	Bangladesh	34.1 yrs	30.0 yrs
145	Guam	33.9 yrs	33.1 yrs
146	Tokelau	33.9 yrs	30.7 yrs
147	Nicaragua	33.5 yrs	29.8 yrs
148	Nepal	33.5 yrs	29.5 yrs
149	Algeria	33.1 yrs	30.4 yrs
150	United Arab Emirates	32.5 yrs	32.1 yrs
151	Niue	32.5 yrs	31.1 yrs
152	Paraguay	32.4 yrs	29.9 yrs
153	Qatar	32.3 yrs	32.2 yrs
154	Fiji	32.2 yrs	30.0 yrs
155	South Africa	31.9 yrs	30.3 yrs
156	Lao People's Democratic Republic	31.7 yrs	28.5 yrs
157	Saudi Arabia	31.5 yrs	30.1 yrs
158	Syrian Arab Republic	31.5 yrs	27.7 yrs
159	Turkmenistan	31.5 yrs	29.4 yrs
160	Israel	31.4 yrs	30.0 yrs
161	Guatemala	31.4 yrs	27.6 yrs
162	Guyana	31.2 yrs	28.7 yrs
163	Cambodia	31.1 yrs	28.5 yrs
164	Honduras	31.1 yrs	28.0 yrs
165	Jordan	31.1 yrs	27.7 yrs
166	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	30.9 yrs	28.2 yrs
167	Oman	30.8 yrs	29.9 yrs
168	Mongolia	30.6 yrs	27.4 yrs
169	Kazakhstan	30.5 yrs	29.1 yrs
170	Djibouti	30.3 yrs	28.0 yrs
171	Haiti	30.0 yrs	27.1 yrs
172	Egypt	29.8 yrs	26.9 yrs
173	Timor-Leste	29.6 yrs	25.9 yrs
174	Kyrgyzstan	29.3 yrs	26.8 yrs
175	Botswana	29.2 yrs	26.6 yrs
176	Eswatini	28.2 yrs	25.3 yrs
177	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	28.1 yrs	25.6 yrs
178	French Guiana	28.0 yrs	26.4 yrs
179	Lesotho	27.7 yrs	24.6 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	27.6 yrs	25.3 yrs
181	Uzbekistan	27.5 yrs	26.6 yrs
182	Tuvalu	27.0 yrs	24.4 yrs
183	Iraq	26.8 yrs	23.9 yrs
184	Kiribati	26.7 yrs	24.4 yrs
185	Tajikistan	26.7 yrs	24.0 yrs
186	State of Palestine	26.6 yrs	23.2 yrs
187	Namibia	26.5 yrs	23.6 yrs
188	Ghana	26.2 yrs	23.8 yrs
189	Marshall Islands	26.1 yrs	23.1 yrs
190	Solomon Islands	25.6 yrs	23.2 yrs
191	Tonga	25.6 yrs	23.1 yrs
192	Pakistan	25.4 yrs	23.1 yrs
193	Kenya	25.3 yrs	23.0 yrs
194	Sierra Leone	25.2 yrs	22.5 yrs
195	Nauru	25.0 yrs	22.7 yrs
196	Gabon	24.9 yrs	22.9 yrs
197	Gambia	24.9 yrs	21.8 yrs
198	Rwanda	24.8 yrs	22.5 yrs
199	Guinea-Bissau	24.7 yrs	22.1 yrs
200	Comoros	24.6 yrs	22.4 yrs
201	Senegal	24.6 yrs	22.3 yrs
202	Vanuatu	24.5 yrs	22.2 yrs
203	South Sudan	24.3 yrs	22.4 yrs
204	Eritrea	24.1 yrs	22.0 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	23.9 yrs	22.0 yrs
206	Burkina Faso	23.8 yrs	21.0 yrs
207	Liberia	23.8 yrs	21.5 yrs
208	Equatorial Guinea	23.7 yrs	22.1 yrs
209	Ethiopia	23.6 yrs	21.3 yrs
210	Samoa	23.6 yrs	21.7 yrs
211	Malawi	23.6 yrs	21.1 yrs
212	Madagascar	23.3 yrs	21.2 yrs
213	Guinea	23.2 yrs	20.6 yrs
214	Nigeria	23.0 yrs	20.7 yrs
215	Yemen	22.9 yrs	20.1 yrs
216	Sudan	22.9 yrs	20.5 yrs
217	Zimbabwe	22.8 yrs	20.8 yrs
218	Uganda	22.7 yrs	19.6 yrs
219	Zambia	22.7 yrs	20.5 yrs
220	Togo	22.7 yrs	21.0 yrs
221	Congo	22.4 yrs	20.8 yrs
222	Cameroon	22.2 yrs	20.1 yrs
223	Côte d'Ivoire	22.1 yrs	20.5 yrs
224	Benin	22.1 yrs	20.1 yrs
225	Afghanistan	22.0 yrs	19.5 yrs
226	Burundi	21.7 yrs	19.6 yrs
227	Mayotte	21.6 yrs	19.7 yrs
228	Mauritania	21.4 yrs	19.3 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	21.0 yrs	19.0 yrs
230	Mozambique	20.6 yrs	18.4 yrs
231	Angola	20.1 yrs	18.3 yrs
232	Niger	20.1 yrs	17.7 yrs
233	Mali	19.4 yrs	17.5 yrs
234	Somalia	19.2 yrs	17.0 yrs
235	Democratic Republic of the Congo	19.1 yrs	17.0 yrs
236	Chad	18.9 yrs	16.8 yrs
237	Central African Republic	18.0 yrs	15.7 yrs

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