Median age by country, 2050

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

◀▶2050

#	Country / area	Median age	2040
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	62.0 yrs	56.5 yrs
2	Republic of Korea	56.7 yrs	53.3 yrs
3	China, Taiwan Province of China	56.3 yrs	53.0 yrs
4	China, Macao SAR	56.2 yrs	50.2 yrs
5	Puerto Rico	54.7 yrs	51.1 yrs
6	Andorra	54.5 yrs	50.5 yrs
7	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	53.3 yrs	50.5 yrs
8	Malta	53.0 yrs	48.4 yrs
9	Italy	52.9 yrs	52.0 yrs
10	Japan	52.8 yrs	53.1 yrs
11	Bermuda	52.3 yrs	51.5 yrs
12	China	52.1 yrs	48.6 yrs
13	Spain	51.8 yrs	51.0 yrs
14	Poland	51.8 yrs	49.3 yrs
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.5 yrs	50.6 yrs
16	Albania	51.1 yrs	45.9 yrs
17	Ukraine	51.1 yrs	48.3 yrs
18	Singapore	50.9 yrs	44.9 yrs
19	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	50.8 yrs	51.7 yrs
20	San Marino	50.8 yrs	52.3 yrs
21	Lithuania	50.3 yrs	47.4 yrs
22	Cuba	49.9 yrs	47.6 yrs
23	Greece	49.9 yrs	50.4 yrs
24	Maldives	49.4 yrs	44.0 yrs
25	Slovakia	49.3 yrs	48.0 yrs
26	Austria	49.2 yrs	47.9 yrs
27	Saint Helena	49.2 yrs	50.6 yrs
28	British Virgin Islands	49.2 yrs	46.0 yrs
29	Croatia	49.1 yrs	48.3 yrs
30	Mauritius	49.1 yrs	44.9 yrs
31	Chile	48.9 yrs	44.5 yrs
32	Isle of Man	48.7 yrs	48.3 yrs
33	Thailand	48.6 yrs	46.0 yrs
34	Guernsey	48.5 yrs	47.6 yrs
35	Estonia	48.4 yrs	48.3 yrs
36	Serbia	48.4 yrs	47.5 yrs
37	Portugal	48.4 yrs	49.1 yrs
38	Martinique	48.3 yrs	51.7 yrs
39	Belarus	48.1 yrs	47.5 yrs
40	Slovenia	48.0 yrs	48.8 yrs
41	Bulgaria	48.0 yrs	48.4 yrs
42	Latvia	48.0 yrs	48.1 yrs
43	Germany	47.9 yrs	48.1 yrs
44	Switzerland	47.8 yrs	47.2 yrs
45	North Macedonia	47.8 yrs	45.9 yrs
46	Cyprus	47.6 yrs	45.4 yrs
47	French Polynesia	47.6 yrs	43.9 yrs
48	Curaçao	47.3 yrs	44.0 yrs
49	Anguilla	47.2 yrs	43.7 yrs
50	Costa Rica	47.0 yrs	42.7 yrs
51	Turks and Caicos Islands	47.0 yrs	44.7 yrs
52	Finland	46.5 yrs	46.1 yrs
53	Liechtenstein	46.5 yrs	46.6 yrs
54	Jersey	46.2 yrs	46.4 yrs
55	Romania	46.2 yrs	46.2 yrs
56	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	46.0 yrs	44.0 yrs
57	Jamaica	46.0 yrs	41.2 yrs
58	Czechia	46.0 yrs	47.3 yrs
59	Antigua and Barbuda	45.8 yrs	42.4 yrs
60	Saint Lucia	45.7 yrs	41.8 yrs
61	Trinidad and Tobago	45.7 yrs	43.7 yrs
62	Luxembourg	45.6 yrs	44.0 yrs
63	Netherlands	45.5 yrs	43.7 yrs
64	Guadeloupe	45.5 yrs	48.4 yrs
65	Norway	45.5 yrs	44.0 yrs
66	Hungary	45.4 yrs	45.9 yrs
67	Armenia	45.2 yrs	44.1 yrs
68	Belgium	45.2 yrs	44.9 yrs
69	Uruguay	45.1 yrs	41.7 yrs
70	Canada	45.1 yrs	43.8 yrs
71	Montenegro	45.1 yrs	43.7 yrs
72	Montserrat	45.0 yrs	45.6 yrs
73	Iceland	44.9 yrs	42.1 yrs
74	Saint Barthélemy	44.5 yrs	41.5 yrs
75	Grenada	44.3 yrs	40.9 yrs
76	Cayman Islands	44.3 yrs	43.7 yrs
77	Denmark	44.3 yrs	43.1 yrs
78	Türkiye	44.3 yrs	40.5 yrs
79	Barbados	44.3 yrs	42.5 yrs
80	Aruba	44.2 yrs	43.7 yrs
81	Sweden	44.1 yrs	43.7 yrs
82	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	43.9 yrs	39.3 yrs
83	Saint Kitts and Nevis	43.9 yrs	41.4 yrs
84	Brazil	43.9 yrs	40.8 yrs
85	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	43.8 yrs	43.1 yrs
86	Colombia	43.7 yrs	39.5 yrs
87	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	43.5 yrs	40.8 yrs
88	France	43.5 yrs	43.3 yrs
89	Gibraltar	43.2 yrs	40.7 yrs
90	Wallis and Futuna Islands	43.0 yrs	39.7 yrs
91	Ireland	42.9 yrs	41.0 yrs
92	United Kingdom	42.9 yrs	42.1 yrs
93	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	42.9 yrs	41.1 yrs
94	Holy See	42.8 yrs	43.1 yrs
95	Monaco	42.8 yrs	45.8 yrs
96	New Zealand	42.7 yrs	41.6 yrs
97	Seychelles	42.5 yrs	40.5 yrs
98	Bahamas	42.5 yrs	40.4 yrs
99	United States Virgin Islands	42.4 yrs	43.8 yrs
100	Bhutan	42.2 yrs	37.6 yrs
101	Dominica	42.1 yrs	41.0 yrs
102	Australia	42.0 yrs	41.5 yrs
103	United States of America	41.9 yrs	40.8 yrs
104	Argentina	41.9 yrs	38.5 yrs
105	Russian Federation	41.7 yrs	43.9 yrs
106	Réunion	41.5 yrs	40.2 yrs
107	Brunei Darussalam	41.3 yrs	39.0 yrs
108	Palau	41.2 yrs	41.9 yrs
109	Cabo Verde	40.8 yrs	36.0 yrs
110	Republic of Moldova	40.7 yrs	42.9 yrs
111	New Caledonia	40.6 yrs	38.3 yrs
112	Georgia	40.4 yrs	40.1 yrs
113	Tunisia	40.3 yrs	38.2 yrs
114	Sri Lanka	40.2 yrs	37.3 yrs
115	Faroe Islands	40.2 yrs	38.2 yrs
116	Viet Nam	40.2 yrs	38.2 yrs
117	Malaysia	40.1 yrs	36.8 yrs
118	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	39.9 yrs	38.4 yrs
119	Northern Mariana Islands	39.8 yrs	39.0 yrs
120	Azerbaijan	39.7 yrs	38.0 yrs
121	Greenland	39.6 yrs	40.0 yrs
122	Ecuador	39.5 yrs	35.6 yrs
123	Peru	39.1 yrs	35.5 yrs
124	El Salvador	38.9 yrs	34.8 yrs
125	Mexico	38.7 yrs	35.1 yrs
126	Saint Martin (French part)	38.6 yrs	51.3 yrs
127	India	38.3 yrs	34.7 yrs
128	Cook Islands	38.3 yrs	38.7 yrs
129	Panama	38.2 yrs	35.1 yrs
130	Belize	37.8 yrs	33.9 yrs
131	Morocco	37.4 yrs	34.2 yrs
132	Indonesia	36.8 yrs	34.3 yrs
133	Western Sahara	36.6 yrs	35.0 yrs
134	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	36.5 yrs	32.9 yrs
135	Lebanon	36.5 yrs	33.0 yrs
136	Myanmar	36.4 yrs	34.3 yrs
137	Libya	36.3 yrs	32.8 yrs
138	Dominican Republic	36.2 yrs	33.2 yrs
139	Philippines	35.9 yrs	32.0 yrs
140	Suriname	35.8 yrs	33.1 yrs
141	Kuwait	35.6 yrs	35.0 yrs
142	American Samoa	35.6 yrs	32.2 yrs
143	Bangladesh	35.5 yrs	31.7 yrs
144	Nepal	35.0 yrs	31.1 yrs
145	Bahrain	35.0 yrs	34.1 yrs
146	Nicaragua	34.9 yrs	31.3 yrs
147	Tokelau	34.8 yrs	32.0 yrs
148	Guam	34.7 yrs	33.4 yrs
149	Algeria	34.5 yrs	31.4 yrs
150	Paraguay	33.5 yrs	30.9 yrs
151	Fiji	33.3 yrs	30.9 yrs
152	Guatemala	33.0 yrs	29.1 yrs
153	Lao People's Democratic Republic	33.0 yrs	29.8 yrs
154	Niue	32.9 yrs	31.4 yrs
155	Turkmenistan	32.8 yrs	29.9 yrs
156	United Arab Emirates	32.6 yrs	32.3 yrs
157	Guyana	32.3 yrs	29.6 yrs
158	Qatar	32.3 yrs	32.2 yrs
159	Honduras	32.3 yrs	29.3 yrs
160	Jordan	32.3 yrs	29.1 yrs
161	South Africa	32.3 yrs	31.0 yrs
162	Israel	32.2 yrs	30.5 yrs
163	Cambodia	32.2 yrs	29.6 yrs
164	Syrian Arab Republic	32.1 yrs	29.3 yrs
165	Saudi Arabia	32.0 yrs	30.7 yrs
166	Mongolia	32.0 yrs	28.5 yrs
167	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	31.9 yrs	29.3 yrs
168	Oman	31.5 yrs	30.1 yrs
169	Kazakhstan	31.2 yrs	29.6 yrs
170	Djibouti	31.2 yrs	29.0 yrs
171	Timor-Leste	31.2 yrs	27.3 yrs
172	Haiti	31.1 yrs	28.3 yrs
173	Egypt	31.0 yrs	27.9 yrs
174	Kyrgyzstan	30.5 yrs	27.8 yrs
175	Botswana	30.3 yrs	27.6 yrs
176	Eswatini	29.4 yrs	26.5 yrs
177	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	29.2 yrs	26.6 yrs
178	Lesotho	28.8 yrs	25.8 yrs
179	French Guiana	28.6 yrs	27.1 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	28.5 yrs	26.3 yrs
181	Uzbekistan	28.2 yrs	26.9 yrs
182	State of Palestine	28.0 yrs	24.5 yrs
183	Tajikistan	27.9 yrs	25.0 yrs
184	Tuvalu	27.9 yrs	25.3 yrs
185	Namibia	27.9 yrs	24.7 yrs
186	Iraq	27.8 yrs	25.2 yrs
187	Kiribati	27.6 yrs	25.4 yrs
188	Marshall Islands	27.6 yrs	24.3 yrs
189	Ghana	27.0 yrs	24.8 yrs
190	Tonga	26.5 yrs	24.3 yrs
191	Solomon Islands	26.4 yrs	24.2 yrs
192	Kenya	26.3 yrs	24.0 yrs
193	Sierra Leone	26.3 yrs	23.6 yrs
194	Pakistan	26.3 yrs	24.0 yrs
195	Gambia	26.1 yrs	23.1 yrs
196	Nauru	25.8 yrs	23.8 yrs
197	Rwanda	25.8 yrs	23.4 yrs
198	Guinea-Bissau	25.7 yrs	23.2 yrs
199	Gabon	25.6 yrs	23.7 yrs
200	Senegal	25.6 yrs	23.2 yrs
201	Comoros	25.4 yrs	23.3 yrs
202	Vanuatu	25.3 yrs	23.1 yrs
203	Eritrea	25.0 yrs	22.9 yrs
204	South Sudan	25.0 yrs	23.4 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	24.8 yrs	22.8 yrs
206	Burkina Faso	24.8 yrs	22.2 yrs
207	Liberia	24.7 yrs	22.4 yrs
208	Ethiopia	24.6 yrs	22.1 yrs
209	Malawi	24.6 yrs	22.1 yrs
210	Equatorial Guinea	24.4 yrs	22.7 yrs
211	Guinea	24.2 yrs	21.6 yrs
212	Madagascar	24.2 yrs	22.0 yrs
213	Yemen	24.1 yrs	21.1 yrs
214	Uganda	24.0 yrs	20.7 yrs
215	Samoa	24.0 yrs	22.5 yrs
216	Sudan	24.0 yrs	21.4 yrs
217	Nigeria	23.9 yrs	21.7 yrs
218	Zambia	23.6 yrs	21.4 yrs
219	Zimbabwe	23.6 yrs	21.6 yrs
220	Togo	23.3 yrs	21.7 yrs
221	Cameroon	23.1 yrs	20.9 yrs
222	Congo	23.1 yrs	21.5 yrs
223	Afghanistan	23.0 yrs	20.5 yrs
224	Benin	23.0 yrs	20.9 yrs
225	Côte d'Ivoire	22.6 yrs	21.3 yrs
226	Burundi	22.5 yrs	20.5 yrs
227	Mayotte	22.5 yrs	20.5 yrs
228	Mauritania	22.3 yrs	20.1 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	21.8 yrs	19.8 yrs
230	Mozambique	21.6 yrs	19.2 yrs
231	Niger	21.2 yrs	18.6 yrs
232	Angola	20.9 yrs	19.0 yrs
233	Somalia	20.2 yrs	17.8 yrs
234	Mali	20.2 yrs	18.2 yrs
235	Democratic Republic of the Congo	20.0 yrs	17.8 yrs
236	Chad	19.8 yrs	17.5 yrs
237	Central African Republic	19.2 yrs	16.4 yrs

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