Median age by country, 2048

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

◀▶2048

#	Country / area	Median age	2038
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	61.0 yrs	55.4 yrs
2	Republic of Korea	56.0 yrs	52.5 yrs
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	55.7 yrs	52.1 yrs
4	China, Macao SAR	55.2 yrs	48.8 yrs
5	Puerto Rico	53.9 yrs	50.4 yrs
6	Andorra	53.8 yrs	49.7 yrs
7	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	53.6 yrs	49.7 yrs
8	Italy	52.9 yrs	51.8 yrs
9	Japan	52.8 yrs	52.9 yrs
10	Malta	52.3 yrs	47.4 yrs
11	Bermuda	52.2 yrs	51.0 yrs
12	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	52.1 yrs	51.6 yrs
13	Spain	51.8 yrs	50.6 yrs
14	China	51.6 yrs	47.5 yrs
15	Poland	51.5 yrs	48.6 yrs
16	San Marino	51.1 yrs	52.3 yrs
17	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.1 yrs	50.2 yrs
18	Ukraine	50.6 yrs	47.5 yrs
19	Albania	50.2 yrs	44.7 yrs
20	Saint Helena	50.2 yrs	51.2 yrs
21	Greece	50.0 yrs	50.3 yrs
22	Lithuania	49.9 yrs	46.6 yrs
23	Singapore	49.8 yrs	43.7 yrs
24	Cuba	49.5 yrs	46.9 yrs
25	Slovakia	49.3 yrs	47.4 yrs
26	Austria	49.2 yrs	47.3 yrs
27	Martinique	49.2 yrs	51.8 yrs
28	Croatia	49.0 yrs	48.1 yrs
29	Maldives	48.7 yrs	42.6 yrs
30	British Virgin Islands	48.7 yrs	45.2 yrs
31	Estonia	48.6 yrs	47.7 yrs
32	Isle of Man	48.6 yrs	48.1 yrs
33	Guernsey	48.4 yrs	47.1 yrs
34	Portugal	48.4 yrs	49.2 yrs
35	Slovenia	48.3 yrs	48.5 yrs
36	Serbia	48.3 yrs	47.2 yrs
37	Mauritius	48.3 yrs	44.0 yrs
38	Thailand	48.2 yrs	45.4 yrs
39	Germany	48.2 yrs	47.8 yrs
40	Bulgaria	48.2 yrs	47.9 yrs
41	Chile	48.1 yrs	43.5 yrs
42	Belarus	48.1 yrs	46.9 yrs
43	Latvia	48.1 yrs	47.5 yrs
44	Switzerland	47.9 yrs	46.7 yrs
45	North Macedonia	47.5 yrs	45.4 yrs
46	Cyprus	47.4 yrs	44.6 yrs
47	Curaçao	46.8 yrs	43.1 yrs
48	French Polynesia	46.8 yrs	43.1 yrs
49	Turks and Caicos Islands	46.6 yrs	44.1 yrs
50	Liechtenstein	46.6 yrs	46.4 yrs
51	Anguilla	46.4 yrs	43.1 yrs
52	Czechia	46.4 yrs	47.0 yrs
53	Finland	46.4 yrs	45.8 yrs
54	Jersey	46.3 yrs	46.2 yrs
55	Costa Rica	46.2 yrs	41.8 yrs
56	Romania	46.2 yrs	46.1 yrs
57	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	45.7 yrs	43.4 yrs
58	Guadeloupe	45.6 yrs	48.5 yrs
59	Hungary	45.6 yrs	45.6 yrs
60	Luxembourg	45.5 yrs	43.5 yrs
61	Trinidad and Tobago	45.4 yrs	43.1 yrs
62	Norway	45.3 yrs	43.6 yrs
63	Armenia	45.2 yrs	43.4 yrs
64	Antigua and Barbuda	45.2 yrs	41.6 yrs
65	Netherlands	45.2 yrs	43.4 yrs
66	Belgium	45.2 yrs	44.6 yrs
67	Jamaica	45.1 yrs	40.1 yrs
68	Montserrat	45.1 yrs	45.4 yrs
69	Saint Lucia	45.0 yrs	40.9 yrs
70	Canada	44.9 yrs	43.4 yrs
71	Montenegro	44.8 yrs	43.3 yrs
72	Uruguay	44.5 yrs	41.0 yrs
73	Iceland	44.4 yrs	41.4 yrs
74	Cayman Islands	44.2 yrs	43.3 yrs
75	Denmark	44.1 yrs	42.8 yrs
76	Barbados	44.0 yrs	42.1 yrs
77	Sweden	43.9 yrs	43.4 yrs
78	Aruba	43.8 yrs	43.7 yrs
79	Türkiye	43.7 yrs	39.5 yrs
80	Grenada	43.6 yrs	40.1 yrs
81	Saint Barthélemy	43.6 yrs	41.2 yrs
82	Saint Kitts and Nevis	43.6 yrs	40.7 yrs
83	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.4 yrs	43.1 yrs
84	Brazil	43.4 yrs	40.0 yrs
85	Monaco	43.4 yrs	46.6 yrs
86	France	43.3 yrs	43.5 yrs
87	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	43.0 yrs	38.4 yrs
88	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	42.9 yrs	40.2 yrs
89	Colombia	42.9 yrs	38.6 yrs
90	Holy See	42.8 yrs	44.5 yrs
91	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	42.8 yrs	40.5 yrs
92	Gibraltar	42.7 yrs	40.3 yrs
93	United Kingdom	42.6 yrs	41.9 yrs
94	Ireland	42.4 yrs	40.8 yrs
95	New Zealand	42.4 yrs	41.3 yrs
96	United States Virgin Islands	42.4 yrs	44.2 yrs
97	Seychelles	42.3 yrs	39.8 yrs
98	Wallis and Futuna Islands	42.2 yrs	40.3 yrs
99	Bahamas	42.1 yrs	39.9 yrs
100	Australia	41.8 yrs	41.3 yrs
101	Dominica	41.8 yrs	40.7 yrs
102	Russian Federation	41.8 yrs	44.2 yrs
103	United States of America	41.5 yrs	40.7 yrs
104	Bhutan	41.3 yrs	36.7 yrs
105	Argentina	41.2 yrs	37.8 yrs
106	Réunion	41.1 yrs	40.3 yrs
107	Palau	41.0 yrs	42.0 yrs
108	Brunei Darussalam	41.0 yrs	38.3 yrs
109	Republic of Moldova	40.7 yrs	42.9 yrs
110	New Caledonia	40.2 yrs	37.7 yrs
111	Georgia	40.1 yrs	40.0 yrs
112	Cabo Verde	39.8 yrs	35.1 yrs
113	Tunisia	39.8 yrs	37.7 yrs
114	Faroe Islands	39.8 yrs	37.8 yrs
115	Viet Nam	39.7 yrs	37.9 yrs
116	Greenland	39.6 yrs	39.8 yrs
117	Sri Lanka	39.6 yrs	36.8 yrs
118	Malaysia	39.5 yrs	36.1 yrs
119	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	39.4 yrs	38.0 yrs
120	Northern Mariana Islands	39.3 yrs	40.9 yrs
121	Azerbaijan	39.1 yrs	37.9 yrs
122	Ecuador	38.7 yrs	34.8 yrs
123	Saint Martin (French part)	38.6 yrs	51.6 yrs
124	Peru	38.4 yrs	34.8 yrs
125	El Salvador	38.1 yrs	34.0 yrs
126	Mexico	38.0 yrs	34.4 yrs
127	India	37.6 yrs	33.9 yrs
128	Cook Islands	37.5 yrs	43.7 yrs
129	Panama	37.5 yrs	34.5 yrs
130	Belize	37.1 yrs	33.0 yrs
131	Morocco	36.8 yrs	33.7 yrs
132	Indonesia	36.3 yrs	33.8 yrs
133	Western Sahara	36.2 yrs	34.8 yrs
134	Myanmar	36.0 yrs	33.8 yrs
135	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	35.8 yrs	32.2 yrs
136	Lebanon	35.7 yrs	32.4 yrs
137	Dominican Republic	35.6 yrs	32.6 yrs
138	Libya	35.6 yrs	32.0 yrs
139	Kuwait	35.5 yrs	34.9 yrs
140	Suriname	35.3 yrs	32.6 yrs
141	Philippines	35.1 yrs	31.2 yrs
142	Bangladesh	34.9 yrs	30.9 yrs
143	American Samoa	34.9 yrs	31.5 yrs
144	Bahrain	34.8 yrs	33.9 yrs
145	Tokelau	34.4 yrs	31.3 yrs
146	Guam	34.3 yrs	33.3 yrs
147	Nicaragua	34.2 yrs	30.6 yrs
148	Nepal	34.2 yrs	30.3 yrs
149	Algeria	33.8 yrs	30.8 yrs
150	Paraguay	33.0 yrs	30.4 yrs
151	Niue	32.7 yrs	31.1 yrs
152	Fiji	32.7 yrs	30.4 yrs
153	United Arab Emirates	32.5 yrs	32.2 yrs
154	Qatar	32.3 yrs	32.1 yrs
155	Lao People's Democratic Republic	32.3 yrs	29.1 yrs
156	Guatemala	32.2 yrs	28.4 yrs
157	Turkmenistan	32.1 yrs	29.6 yrs
158	South Africa	32.1 yrs	30.6 yrs
159	Syrian Arab Republic	31.9 yrs	28.5 yrs
160	Israel	31.8 yrs	30.3 yrs
161	Guyana	31.8 yrs	29.2 yrs
162	Saudi Arabia	31.7 yrs	30.4 yrs
163	Honduras	31.7 yrs	28.6 yrs
164	Jordan	31.7 yrs	28.4 yrs
165	Cambodia	31.6 yrs	29.1 yrs
166	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	31.4 yrs	28.7 yrs
167	Mongolia	31.3 yrs	27.9 yrs
168	Oman	31.2 yrs	30.0 yrs
169	Kazakhstan	30.8 yrs	29.3 yrs
170	Djibouti	30.8 yrs	28.5 yrs
171	Haiti	30.6 yrs	27.7 yrs
172	Egypt	30.4 yrs	27.4 yrs
173	Timor-Leste	30.4 yrs	26.6 yrs
174	Kyrgyzstan	29.9 yrs	27.3 yrs
175	Botswana	29.7 yrs	27.1 yrs
176	Eswatini	28.8 yrs	25.9 yrs
177	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	28.7 yrs	26.1 yrs
178	Lesotho	28.3 yrs	25.2 yrs
179	French Guiana	28.3 yrs	26.8 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	28.1 yrs	25.8 yrs
181	Uzbekistan	27.8 yrs	26.8 yrs
182	Tuvalu	27.5 yrs	24.8 yrs
183	Iraq	27.3 yrs	24.5 yrs
184	Tajikistan	27.3 yrs	24.4 yrs
185	State of Palestine	27.3 yrs	23.9 yrs
186	Kiribati	27.2 yrs	24.9 yrs
187	Namibia	27.2 yrs	24.1 yrs
188	Marshall Islands	26.9 yrs	23.7 yrs
189	Ghana	26.6 yrs	24.3 yrs
190	Tonga	26.1 yrs	23.7 yrs
191	Solomon Islands	26.0 yrs	23.7 yrs
192	Kenya	25.8 yrs	23.5 yrs
193	Sierra Leone	25.8 yrs	23.1 yrs
194	Pakistan	25.8 yrs	23.6 yrs
195	Gambia	25.5 yrs	22.5 yrs
196	Nauru	25.4 yrs	23.3 yrs
197	Rwanda	25.3 yrs	22.9 yrs
198	Gabon	25.2 yrs	23.3 yrs
199	Guinea-Bissau	25.2 yrs	22.7 yrs
200	Senegal	25.1 yrs	22.8 yrs
201	Comoros	25.0 yrs	22.8 yrs
202	Vanuatu	24.9 yrs	22.7 yrs
203	Eritrea	24.6 yrs	22.5 yrs
204	South Sudan	24.6 yrs	22.9 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	24.4 yrs	22.4 yrs
206	Burkina Faso	24.3 yrs	21.6 yrs
207	Liberia	24.2 yrs	21.9 yrs
208	Ethiopia	24.1 yrs	21.7 yrs
209	Malawi	24.1 yrs	21.6 yrs
210	Equatorial Guinea	24.0 yrs	22.4 yrs
211	Samoa	23.8 yrs	22.1 yrs
212	Guinea	23.7 yrs	21.1 yrs
213	Madagascar	23.7 yrs	21.6 yrs
214	Yemen	23.5 yrs	20.6 yrs
215	Sudan	23.5 yrs	21.0 yrs
216	Uganda	23.4 yrs	20.1 yrs
217	Nigeria	23.4 yrs	21.2 yrs
218	Zimbabwe	23.2 yrs	21.3 yrs
219	Zambia	23.1 yrs	20.9 yrs
220	Togo	23.0 yrs	21.3 yrs
221	Congo	22.7 yrs	21.2 yrs
222	Cameroon	22.6 yrs	20.5 yrs
223	Benin	22.6 yrs	20.5 yrs
224	Afghanistan	22.5 yrs	20.0 yrs
225	Côte d'Ivoire	22.4 yrs	20.9 yrs
226	Burundi	22.1 yrs	20.1 yrs
227	Mayotte	22.1 yrs	20.1 yrs
228	Mauritania	21.8 yrs	19.7 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	21.4 yrs	19.4 yrs
230	Mozambique	21.1 yrs	18.8 yrs
231	Niger	20.6 yrs	18.1 yrs
232	Angola	20.5 yrs	18.6 yrs
233	Mali	19.8 yrs	17.8 yrs
234	Somalia	19.7 yrs	17.4 yrs
235	Democratic Republic of the Congo	19.6 yrs	17.4 yrs
236	Chad	19.3 yrs	17.1 yrs
237	Central African Republic	18.6 yrs	16.0 yrs

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