Median age by country, 2047

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

◀▶2047

#	Country / area	Median age	2037
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	60.4 yrs	54.8 yrs
2	Republic of Korea	55.7 yrs	52.1 yrs
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	55.4 yrs	51.7 yrs
4	China, Macao SAR	54.6 yrs	48.1 yrs
5	Andorra	53.5 yrs	49.3 yrs
6	Puerto Rico	53.5 yrs	50.1 yrs
7	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	53.4 yrs	49.3 yrs
8	Japan	52.9 yrs	52.8 yrs
9	Italy	52.8 yrs	51.6 yrs
10	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	52.3 yrs	51.4 yrs
11	Bermuda	52.2 yrs	50.7 yrs
12	Spain	51.8 yrs	50.4 yrs
13	Malta	51.8 yrs	46.9 yrs
14	Poland	51.3 yrs	48.2 yrs
15	China	51.3 yrs	47.0 yrs
16	San Marino	51.2 yrs	52.3 yrs
17	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.1 yrs	50.0 yrs
18	Ukraine	50.4 yrs	47.0 yrs
19	Saint Helena	50.2 yrs	51.3 yrs
20	Greece	50.1 yrs	50.2 yrs
21	Martinique	49.8 yrs	51.8 yrs
22	Albania	49.7 yrs	44.1 yrs
23	Lithuania	49.6 yrs	46.3 yrs
24	Cuba	49.3 yrs	46.5 yrs
25	Singapore	49.2 yrs	43.1 yrs
26	Slovakia	49.2 yrs	47.1 yrs
27	Austria	49.1 yrs	47.1 yrs
28	Estonia	48.8 yrs	47.3 yrs
29	Croatia	48.8 yrs	48.0 yrs
30	Slovenia	48.5 yrs	48.3 yrs
31	Portugal	48.5 yrs	49.2 yrs
32	Isle of Man	48.5 yrs	48.0 yrs
33	British Virgin Islands	48.4 yrs	44.8 yrs
34	Guernsey	48.3 yrs	46.9 yrs
35	Serbia	48.3 yrs	47.1 yrs
36	Germany	48.3 yrs	47.6 yrs
37	Bulgaria	48.3 yrs	47.7 yrs
38	Maldives	48.3 yrs	41.8 yrs
39	Belarus	48.2 yrs	46.5 yrs
40	Latvia	48.2 yrs	47.3 yrs
41	Thailand	48.0 yrs	45.0 yrs
42	Switzerland	47.9 yrs	46.4 yrs
43	Mauritius	47.9 yrs	43.6 yrs
44	Chile	47.7 yrs	43.0 yrs
45	North Macedonia	47.3 yrs	45.1 yrs
46	Cyprus	47.2 yrs	44.2 yrs
47	Liechtenstein	46.7 yrs	46.4 yrs
48	Czechia	46.6 yrs	46.9 yrs
49	Curaçao	46.5 yrs	42.7 yrs
50	Turks and Caicos Islands	46.5 yrs	43.8 yrs
51	Jersey	46.4 yrs	46.1 yrs
52	Finland	46.4 yrs	45.6 yrs
53	French Polynesia	46.3 yrs	42.6 yrs
54	Romania	46.2 yrs	46.0 yrs
55	Anguilla	46.0 yrs	42.8 yrs
56	Guadeloupe	45.8 yrs	48.5 yrs
57	Costa Rica	45.8 yrs	41.3 yrs
58	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	45.6 yrs	43.1 yrs
59	Hungary	45.6 yrs	45.5 yrs
60	Luxembourg	45.4 yrs	43.2 yrs
61	Montserrat	45.3 yrs	45.3 yrs
62	Armenia	45.2 yrs	43.0 yrs
63	Trinidad and Tobago	45.2 yrs	42.8 yrs
64	Belgium	45.2 yrs	44.4 yrs
65	Norway	45.1 yrs	43.3 yrs
66	Netherlands	45.0 yrs	43.2 yrs
67	Antigua and Barbuda	44.9 yrs	41.1 yrs
68	Canada	44.9 yrs	43.2 yrs
69	Jamaica	44.7 yrs	39.5 yrs
70	Saint Lucia	44.7 yrs	40.4 yrs
71	Montenegro	44.7 yrs	43.1 yrs
72	Iceland	44.2 yrs	41.0 yrs
73	Uruguay	44.2 yrs	40.6 yrs
74	Cayman Islands	44.2 yrs	43.0 yrs
75	Denmark	44.0 yrs	42.6 yrs
76	Sweden	43.8 yrs	43.2 yrs
77	Barbados	43.8 yrs	42.0 yrs
78	Aruba	43.7 yrs	43.6 yrs
79	Monaco	43.7 yrs	47.0 yrs
80	Saint Kitts and Nevis	43.4 yrs	40.4 yrs
81	Grenada	43.3 yrs	39.7 yrs
82	Saint Barthélemy	43.3 yrs	41.0 yrs
83	Türkiye	43.3 yrs	39.1 yrs
84	France	43.3 yrs	43.5 yrs
85	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.2 yrs	43.1 yrs
86	Brazil	43.1 yrs	39.6 yrs
87	Holy See	42.9 yrs	45.0 yrs
88	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	42.7 yrs	39.8 yrs
89	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	42.7 yrs	40.2 yrs
90	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	42.6 yrs	38.0 yrs
91	United Kingdom	42.5 yrs	41.8 yrs
92	Colombia	42.5 yrs	38.1 yrs
93	Gibraltar	42.4 yrs	40.1 yrs
94	United States Virgin Islands	42.4 yrs	44.4 yrs
95	New Zealand	42.3 yrs	41.1 yrs
96	Ireland	42.2 yrs	40.7 yrs
97	Seychelles	42.2 yrs	39.4 yrs
98	Russian Federation	41.9 yrs	44.2 yrs
99	Bahamas	41.8 yrs	39.6 yrs
100	Wallis and Futuna Islands	41.7 yrs	40.5 yrs
101	Australia	41.7 yrs	41.1 yrs
102	Dominica	41.7 yrs	40.5 yrs
103	United States of America	41.4 yrs	40.7 yrs
104	Palau	41.0 yrs	41.9 yrs
105	Bhutan	40.9 yrs	36.2 yrs
106	Réunion	40.9 yrs	40.4 yrs
107	Argentina	40.8 yrs	37.4 yrs
108	Brunei Darussalam	40.8 yrs	38.0 yrs
109	Republic of Moldova	40.7 yrs	42.8 yrs
110	Georgia	40.0 yrs	39.9 yrs
111	New Caledonia	40.0 yrs	37.5 yrs
112	Greenland	39.7 yrs	39.5 yrs
113	Faroe Islands	39.6 yrs	37.7 yrs
114	Tunisia	39.5 yrs	37.5 yrs
115	Cabo Verde	39.4 yrs	34.7 yrs
116	Viet Nam	39.4 yrs	37.7 yrs
117	Sri Lanka	39.3 yrs	36.6 yrs
118	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	39.2 yrs	37.8 yrs
119	Malaysia	39.2 yrs	35.7 yrs
120	Northern Mariana Islands	39.0 yrs	41.6 yrs
121	Azerbaijan	38.9 yrs	37.8 yrs
122	Saint Martin (French part)	38.6 yrs	51.6 yrs
123	Ecuador	38.3 yrs	34.4 yrs
124	Peru	38.0 yrs	34.5 yrs
125	El Salvador	37.7 yrs	33.6 yrs
126	Mexico	37.6 yrs	34.0 yrs
127	India	37.2 yrs	33.5 yrs
128	Panama	37.2 yrs	34.1 yrs
129	Cook Islands	37.1 yrs	44.0 yrs
130	Belize	36.8 yrs	32.5 yrs
131	Morocco	36.4 yrs	33.4 yrs
132	Western Sahara	36.1 yrs	34.7 yrs
133	Indonesia	36.0 yrs	33.6 yrs
134	Myanmar	35.8 yrs	33.5 yrs
135	Kuwait	35.4 yrs	34.9 yrs
136	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	35.4 yrs	31.9 yrs
137	Dominican Republic	35.3 yrs	32.3 yrs
138	Libya	35.3 yrs	31.7 yrs
139	Lebanon	35.3 yrs	32.1 yrs
140	Suriname	35.0 yrs	32.3 yrs
141	Bahrain	34.7 yrs	33.9 yrs
142	Philippines	34.7 yrs	30.9 yrs
143	American Samoa	34.6 yrs	31.2 yrs
144	Bangladesh	34.5 yrs	30.4 yrs
145	Tokelau	34.2 yrs	30.9 yrs
146	Guam	34.1 yrs	33.2 yrs
147	Nicaragua	33.8 yrs	30.2 yrs
148	Nepal	33.8 yrs	29.9 yrs
149	Algeria	33.5 yrs	30.6 yrs
150	Paraguay	32.7 yrs	30.2 yrs
151	Niue	32.6 yrs	31.1 yrs
152	United Arab Emirates	32.5 yrs	32.2 yrs
153	Fiji	32.5 yrs	30.2 yrs
154	Qatar	32.3 yrs	32.1 yrs
155	Lao People's Democratic Republic	32.0 yrs	28.8 yrs
156	South Africa	32.0 yrs	30.4 yrs
157	Guatemala	31.8 yrs	28.0 yrs
158	Turkmenistan	31.8 yrs	29.4 yrs
159	Syrian Arab Republic	31.7 yrs	28.1 yrs
160	Israel	31.6 yrs	30.1 yrs
161	Saudi Arabia	31.6 yrs	30.3 yrs
162	Guyana	31.5 yrs	28.9 yrs
163	Honduras	31.4 yrs	28.3 yrs
164	Jordan	31.4 yrs	28.1 yrs
165	Cambodia	31.3 yrs	28.8 yrs
166	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	31.1 yrs	28.5 yrs
167	Oman	31.0 yrs	30.0 yrs
168	Mongolia	30.9 yrs	27.7 yrs
169	Kazakhstan	30.7 yrs	29.2 yrs
170	Djibouti	30.6 yrs	28.3 yrs
171	Haiti	30.3 yrs	27.4 yrs
172	Egypt	30.1 yrs	27.1 yrs
173	Timor-Leste	30.0 yrs	26.3 yrs
174	Kyrgyzstan	29.6 yrs	27.0 yrs
175	Botswana	29.5 yrs	26.8 yrs
176	Eswatini	28.5 yrs	25.6 yrs
177	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	28.4 yrs	25.9 yrs
178	French Guiana	28.1 yrs	26.6 yrs
179	Lesotho	28.0 yrs	24.9 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	27.9 yrs	25.6 yrs
181	Uzbekistan	27.6 yrs	26.7 yrs
182	Tuvalu	27.3 yrs	24.6 yrs
183	Iraq	27.1 yrs	24.2 yrs
184	Tajikistan	27.0 yrs	24.2 yrs
185	State of Palestine	27.0 yrs	23.5 yrs
186	Kiribati	26.9 yrs	24.7 yrs
187	Namibia	26.8 yrs	23.9 yrs
188	Marshall Islands	26.5 yrs	23.4 yrs
189	Ghana	26.4 yrs	24.1 yrs
190	Solomon Islands	25.8 yrs	23.4 yrs
191	Tonga	25.8 yrs	23.4 yrs
192	Kenya	25.6 yrs	23.3 yrs
193	Pakistan	25.6 yrs	23.3 yrs
194	Sierra Leone	25.5 yrs	22.8 yrs
195	Gambia	25.2 yrs	22.1 yrs
196	Nauru	25.2 yrs	23.0 yrs
197	Gabon	25.1 yrs	23.1 yrs
198	Rwanda	25.1 yrs	22.7 yrs
199	Guinea-Bissau	25.0 yrs	22.4 yrs
200	Senegal	24.9 yrs	22.5 yrs
201	Comoros	24.8 yrs	22.6 yrs
202	Vanuatu	24.7 yrs	22.4 yrs
203	South Sudan	24.4 yrs	22.7 yrs
204	Eritrea	24.3 yrs	22.3 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	24.1 yrs	22.2 yrs
206	Burkina Faso	24.1 yrs	21.3 yrs
207	Liberia	24.0 yrs	21.7 yrs
208	Equatorial Guinea	23.9 yrs	22.2 yrs
209	Ethiopia	23.8 yrs	21.5 yrs
210	Malawi	23.8 yrs	21.4 yrs
211	Samoa	23.7 yrs	21.9 yrs
212	Madagascar	23.5 yrs	21.4 yrs
213	Guinea	23.4 yrs	20.8 yrs
214	Yemen	23.2 yrs	20.4 yrs
215	Sudan	23.2 yrs	20.7 yrs
216	Nigeria	23.2 yrs	21.0 yrs
217	Uganda	23.0 yrs	19.8 yrs
218	Zimbabwe	23.0 yrs	21.1 yrs
219	Zambia	22.9 yrs	20.7 yrs
220	Togo	22.8 yrs	21.1 yrs
221	Congo	22.6 yrs	21.0 yrs
222	Cameroon	22.4 yrs	20.3 yrs
223	Benin	22.4 yrs	20.3 yrs
224	Afghanistan	22.2 yrs	19.7 yrs
225	Côte d'Ivoire	22.2 yrs	20.7 yrs
226	Burundi	21.9 yrs	19.8 yrs
227	Mayotte	21.9 yrs	19.9 yrs
228	Mauritania	21.6 yrs	19.5 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	21.2 yrs	19.2 yrs
230	Mozambique	20.9 yrs	18.6 yrs
231	Niger	20.4 yrs	17.9 yrs
232	Angola	20.3 yrs	18.4 yrs
233	Mali	19.6 yrs	17.7 yrs
234	Somalia	19.5 yrs	17.2 yrs
235	Democratic Republic of the Congo	19.3 yrs	17.2 yrs
236	Chad	19.1 yrs	17.0 yrs
237	Central African Republic	18.3 yrs	15.9 yrs

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