Median age by country, 2049

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

◀▶2049

#	Country / area	Median age	2039
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	61.5 yrs	56.0 yrs
2	Republic of Korea	56.4 yrs	52.9 yrs
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	56.0 yrs	52.6 yrs
4	China, Macao SAR	55.8 yrs	49.5 yrs
5	Puerto Rico	54.3 yrs	50.8 yrs
6	Andorra	54.2 yrs	50.1 yrs
7	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	53.5 yrs	50.1 yrs
8	Italy	52.9 yrs	51.9 yrs
9	Japan	52.8 yrs	53.0 yrs
10	Malta	52.7 yrs	47.9 yrs
11	Bermuda	52.3 yrs	51.2 yrs
12	China	51.9 yrs	48.1 yrs
13	Spain	51.8 yrs	50.8 yrs
14	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	51.6 yrs	51.7 yrs
15	Poland	51.6 yrs	49.0 yrs
16	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.3 yrs	50.4 yrs
17	Ukraine	50.9 yrs	47.9 yrs
18	San Marino	50.9 yrs	52.3 yrs
19	Albania	50.6 yrs	45.3 yrs
20	Singapore	50.3 yrs	44.3 yrs
21	Lithuania	50.1 yrs	47.0 yrs
22	Greece	49.9 yrs	50.3 yrs
23	Cuba	49.7 yrs	47.3 yrs
24	Saint Helena	49.7 yrs	50.8 yrs
25	Slovakia	49.3 yrs	47.7 yrs
26	Austria	49.2 yrs	47.6 yrs
27	Maldives	49.1 yrs	43.3 yrs
28	Croatia	49.0 yrs	48.2 yrs
29	British Virgin Islands	48.9 yrs	45.6 yrs
30	Martinique	48.7 yrs	51.8 yrs
31	Mauritius	48.7 yrs	44.5 yrs
32	Isle of Man	48.6 yrs	48.2 yrs
33	Estonia	48.5 yrs	48.0 yrs
34	Guernsey	48.5 yrs	47.4 yrs
35	Chile	48.5 yrs	44.0 yrs
36	Thailand	48.4 yrs	45.7 yrs
37	Portugal	48.4 yrs	49.1 yrs
38	Serbia	48.3 yrs	47.4 yrs
39	Slovenia	48.1 yrs	48.7 yrs
40	Germany	48.1 yrs	48.0 yrs
41	Bulgaria	48.1 yrs	48.2 yrs
42	Belarus	48.1 yrs	47.2 yrs
43	Latvia	48.0 yrs	47.8 yrs
44	Switzerland	47.9 yrs	47.0 yrs
45	North Macedonia	47.6 yrs	45.7 yrs
46	Cyprus	47.5 yrs	45.0 yrs
47	French Polynesia	47.2 yrs	43.5 yrs
48	Curaçao	47.0 yrs	43.5 yrs
49	Anguilla	46.8 yrs	43.4 yrs
50	Turks and Caicos Islands	46.8 yrs	44.4 yrs
51	Costa Rica	46.6 yrs	42.3 yrs
52	Liechtenstein	46.6 yrs	46.5 yrs
53	Finland	46.4 yrs	46.0 yrs
54	Jersey	46.3 yrs	46.3 yrs
55	Czechia	46.2 yrs	47.2 yrs
56	Romania	46.2 yrs	46.2 yrs
57	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	45.9 yrs	43.7 yrs
58	Jamaica	45.6 yrs	40.6 yrs
59	Antigua and Barbuda	45.5 yrs	42.0 yrs
60	Guadeloupe	45.5 yrs	48.4 yrs
61	Trinidad and Tobago	45.5 yrs	43.4 yrs
62	Hungary	45.5 yrs	45.8 yrs
63	Luxembourg	45.5 yrs	43.8 yrs
64	Saint Lucia	45.4 yrs	41.3 yrs
65	Norway	45.4 yrs	43.8 yrs
66	Netherlands	45.3 yrs	43.6 yrs
67	Armenia	45.2 yrs	43.8 yrs
68	Belgium	45.2 yrs	44.7 yrs
69	Canada	45.0 yrs	43.6 yrs
70	Montenegro	45.0 yrs	43.5 yrs
71	Montserrat	45.0 yrs	45.5 yrs
72	Uruguay	44.8 yrs	41.4 yrs
73	Iceland	44.6 yrs	41.8 yrs
74	Cayman Islands	44.3 yrs	43.5 yrs
75	Denmark	44.2 yrs	43.0 yrs
76	Barbados	44.2 yrs	42.3 yrs
77	Aruba	44.0 yrs	43.7 yrs
78	Grenada	44.0 yrs	40.5 yrs
79	Saint Barthélemy	44.0 yrs	41.3 yrs
80	Sweden	44.0 yrs	43.6 yrs
81	Türkiye	44.0 yrs	40.0 yrs
82	Saint Kitts and Nevis	43.7 yrs	41.0 yrs
83	Brazil	43.6 yrs	40.4 yrs
84	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	43.5 yrs	38.8 yrs
85	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.5 yrs	43.1 yrs
86	France	43.4 yrs	43.4 yrs
87	Colombia	43.3 yrs	39.1 yrs
88	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	43.2 yrs	40.5 yrs
89	Monaco	43.1 yrs	46.2 yrs
90	Gibraltar	42.9 yrs	40.5 yrs
91	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	42.9 yrs	40.9 yrs
92	United Kingdom	42.7 yrs	42.0 yrs
93	Holy See	42.7 yrs	43.9 yrs
94	Ireland	42.6 yrs	40.9 yrs
95	Wallis and Futuna Islands	42.6 yrs	39.9 yrs
96	New Zealand	42.5 yrs	41.5 yrs
97	Seychelles	42.4 yrs	40.2 yrs
98	Bahamas	42.3 yrs	40.1 yrs
99	United States Virgin Islands	42.3 yrs	44.1 yrs
100	Dominica	42.0 yrs	40.8 yrs
101	Australia	41.9 yrs	41.4 yrs
102	Bhutan	41.8 yrs	37.1 yrs
103	United States of America	41.7 yrs	40.8 yrs
104	Russian Federation	41.7 yrs	44.1 yrs
105	Argentina	41.5 yrs	38.1 yrs
106	Réunion	41.3 yrs	40.3 yrs
107	Brunei Darussalam	41.2 yrs	38.6 yrs
108	Palau	41.1 yrs	42.0 yrs
109	Republic of Moldova	40.7 yrs	43.0 yrs
110	New Caledonia	40.4 yrs	38.0 yrs
111	Cabo Verde	40.3 yrs	35.6 yrs
112	Georgia	40.2 yrs	40.1 yrs
113	Tunisia	40.0 yrs	38.0 yrs
114	Faroe Islands	40.0 yrs	38.0 yrs
115	Viet Nam	40.0 yrs	38.0 yrs
116	Sri Lanka	39.9 yrs	37.1 yrs
117	Malaysia	39.8 yrs	36.5 yrs
118	Greenland	39.6 yrs	39.9 yrs
119	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	39.6 yrs	38.2 yrs
120	Northern Mariana Islands	39.5 yrs	39.9 yrs
121	Azerbaijan	39.4 yrs	37.9 yrs
122	Ecuador	39.1 yrs	35.2 yrs
123	Peru	38.7 yrs	35.2 yrs
124	Saint Martin (French part)	38.6 yrs	51.5 yrs
125	El Salvador	38.5 yrs	34.4 yrs
126	Mexico	38.4 yrs	34.8 yrs
127	India	37.9 yrs	34.3 yrs
128	Cook Islands	37.9 yrs	42.9 yrs
129	Panama	37.9 yrs	34.8 yrs
130	Belize	37.5 yrs	33.5 yrs
131	Morocco	37.1 yrs	34.0 yrs
132	Indonesia	36.6 yrs	34.0 yrs
133	Western Sahara	36.4 yrs	34.9 yrs
134	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	36.1 yrs	32.5 yrs
135	Myanmar	36.1 yrs	34.0 yrs
136	Lebanon	36.1 yrs	32.7 yrs
137	Dominican Republic	35.9 yrs	32.9 yrs
138	Libya	35.9 yrs	32.4 yrs
139	Kuwait	35.5 yrs	34.9 yrs
140	Suriname	35.5 yrs	32.9 yrs
141	Philippines	35.5 yrs	31.6 yrs
142	American Samoa	35.3 yrs	31.9 yrs
143	Bangladesh	35.2 yrs	31.3 yrs
144	Bahrain	34.9 yrs	34.0 yrs
145	Tokelau	34.6 yrs	31.6 yrs
146	Nicaragua	34.6 yrs	30.9 yrs
147	Nepal	34.6 yrs	30.7 yrs
148	Guam	34.5 yrs	33.3 yrs
149	Algeria	34.2 yrs	31.1 yrs
150	Paraguay	33.2 yrs	30.6 yrs
151	Fiji	33.0 yrs	30.6 yrs
152	Niue	32.8 yrs	31.3 yrs
153	Lao People's Democratic Republic	32.7 yrs	29.4 yrs
154	United Arab Emirates	32.6 yrs	32.3 yrs
155	Guatemala	32.6 yrs	28.8 yrs
156	Turkmenistan	32.4 yrs	29.7 yrs
157	Qatar	32.3 yrs	32.1 yrs
158	South Africa	32.2 yrs	30.8 yrs
159	Israel	32.0 yrs	30.4 yrs
160	Guyana	32.0 yrs	29.4 yrs
161	Syrian Arab Republic	32.0 yrs	28.9 yrs
162	Honduras	32.0 yrs	28.9 yrs
163	Jordan	32.0 yrs	28.7 yrs
164	Cambodia	31.9 yrs	29.3 yrs
165	Saudi Arabia	31.9 yrs	30.5 yrs
166	Mongolia	31.7 yrs	28.2 yrs
167	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	31.6 yrs	29.0 yrs
168	Oman	31.4 yrs	30.1 yrs
169	Kazakhstan	31.0 yrs	29.4 yrs
170	Djibouti	31.0 yrs	28.8 yrs
171	Haiti	30.8 yrs	28.0 yrs
172	Timor-Leste	30.8 yrs	27.0 yrs
173	Egypt	30.7 yrs	27.6 yrs
174	Kyrgyzstan	30.2 yrs	27.5 yrs
175	Botswana	30.0 yrs	27.4 yrs
176	Eswatini	29.1 yrs	26.2 yrs
177	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	28.9 yrs	26.4 yrs
178	Lesotho	28.5 yrs	25.5 yrs
179	French Guiana	28.5 yrs	26.9 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	28.3 yrs	26.0 yrs
181	Uzbekistan	27.9 yrs	26.9 yrs
182	Tuvalu	27.7 yrs	25.1 yrs
183	Iraq	27.6 yrs	24.9 yrs
184	Tajikistan	27.6 yrs	24.7 yrs
185	State of Palestine	27.6 yrs	24.2 yrs
186	Namibia	27.5 yrs	24.4 yrs
187	Kiribati	27.4 yrs	25.1 yrs
188	Marshall Islands	27.2 yrs	24.0 yrs
189	Ghana	26.8 yrs	24.6 yrs
190	Tonga	26.3 yrs	24.0 yrs
191	Solomon Islands	26.2 yrs	23.9 yrs
192	Sierra Leone	26.1 yrs	23.3 yrs
193	Kenya	26.0 yrs	23.7 yrs
194	Pakistan	26.0 yrs	23.8 yrs
195	Gambia	25.8 yrs	22.8 yrs
196	Nauru	25.6 yrs	23.5 yrs
197	Rwanda	25.6 yrs	23.2 yrs
198	Guinea-Bissau	25.5 yrs	22.9 yrs
199	Gabon	25.4 yrs	23.5 yrs
200	Senegal	25.4 yrs	23.0 yrs
201	Comoros	25.2 yrs	23.1 yrs
202	Vanuatu	25.1 yrs	22.9 yrs
203	Eritrea	24.8 yrs	22.7 yrs
204	South Sudan	24.8 yrs	23.2 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	24.6 yrs	22.6 yrs
206	Burkina Faso	24.6 yrs	21.9 yrs
207	Ethiopia	24.4 yrs	21.9 yrs
208	Malawi	24.4 yrs	21.9 yrs
209	Liberia	24.4 yrs	22.2 yrs
210	Equatorial Guinea	24.2 yrs	22.6 yrs
211	Guinea	24.0 yrs	21.3 yrs
212	Madagascar	24.0 yrs	21.8 yrs
213	Samoa	23.9 yrs	22.3 yrs
214	Yemen	23.8 yrs	20.9 yrs
215	Uganda	23.7 yrs	20.4 yrs
216	Sudan	23.7 yrs	21.2 yrs
217	Nigeria	23.6 yrs	21.4 yrs
218	Zambia	23.4 yrs	21.1 yrs
219	Zimbabwe	23.4 yrs	21.5 yrs
220	Togo	23.1 yrs	21.5 yrs
221	Cameroon	22.9 yrs	20.7 yrs
222	Congo	22.9 yrs	21.4 yrs
223	Afghanistan	22.8 yrs	20.2 yrs
224	Benin	22.8 yrs	20.7 yrs
225	Côte d'Ivoire	22.5 yrs	21.1 yrs
226	Burundi	22.3 yrs	20.3 yrs
227	Mayotte	22.3 yrs	20.3 yrs
228	Mauritania	22.1 yrs	19.9 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	21.6 yrs	19.6 yrs
230	Mozambique	21.4 yrs	19.0 yrs
231	Niger	20.9 yrs	18.3 yrs
232	Angola	20.7 yrs	18.8 yrs
233	Mali	20.0 yrs	18.0 yrs
234	Somalia	19.9 yrs	17.6 yrs
235	Democratic Republic of the Congo	19.8 yrs	17.6 yrs
236	Chad	19.5 yrs	17.3 yrs
237	Central African Republic	18.9 yrs	16.1 yrs

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