Median age by country, 2051

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

◀▶2051

#	Country / area	Median age	2041
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	62.5 yrs	57.1 yrs
2	Republic of Korea	57.1 yrs	53.7 yrs
3	China, Macao SAR	56.8 yrs	50.9 yrs
4	China, Taiwan Province of China	56.5 yrs	53.3 yrs
5	Puerto Rico	55.1 yrs	51.4 yrs
6	Andorra	54.8 yrs	51.0 yrs
7	Malta	53.4 yrs	49.0 yrs
8	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	53.1 yrs	51.0 yrs
9	Italy	52.9 yrs	52.2 yrs
10	Japan	52.7 yrs	53.1 yrs
11	Bermuda	52.4 yrs	51.6 yrs
12	China	52.4 yrs	49.1 yrs
13	Poland	51.9 yrs	49.7 yrs
14	Spain	51.7 yrs	51.2 yrs
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.7 yrs	50.8 yrs
16	Albania	51.5 yrs	46.5 yrs
17	Singapore	51.5 yrs	45.5 yrs
18	Ukraine	51.3 yrs	48.6 yrs
19	San Marino	50.7 yrs	52.2 yrs
20	Lithuania	50.5 yrs	47.8 yrs
21	Cuba	50.1 yrs	47.9 yrs
22	Greece	49.8 yrs	50.4 yrs
23	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	49.8 yrs	51.8 yrs
24	Maldives	49.7 yrs	44.6 yrs
25	Mauritius	49.5 yrs	45.4 yrs
26	British Virgin Islands	49.4 yrs	46.4 yrs
27	Chile	49.3 yrs	45.0 yrs
28	Croatia	49.2 yrs	48.4 yrs
29	Slovakia	49.2 yrs	48.3 yrs
30	Saint Helena	49.2 yrs	50.7 yrs
31	Austria	49.1 yrs	48.1 yrs
32	Thailand	48.8 yrs	46.3 yrs
33	Isle of Man	48.7 yrs	48.3 yrs
34	Guernsey	48.6 yrs	47.8 yrs
35	Serbia	48.4 yrs	47.6 yrs
36	Estonia	48.3 yrs	48.5 yrs
37	Portugal	48.3 yrs	49.1 yrs
38	Belarus	48.1 yrs	47.8 yrs
39	Martinique	48.0 yrs	51.7 yrs
40	French Polynesia	48.0 yrs	44.2 yrs
41	Bulgaria	47.9 yrs	48.6 yrs
42	Latvia	47.9 yrs	48.3 yrs
43	North Macedonia	47.9 yrs	46.2 yrs
44	Cyprus	47.7 yrs	45.7 yrs
45	Switzerland	47.7 yrs	47.4 yrs
46	Slovenia	47.7 yrs	48.8 yrs
47	Germany	47.7 yrs	48.2 yrs
48	Anguilla	47.6 yrs	44.0 yrs
49	Curaçao	47.5 yrs	44.4 yrs
50	Costa Rica	47.4 yrs	43.2 yrs
51	Turks and Caicos Islands	47.1 yrs	45.0 yrs
52	Jamaica	46.5 yrs	41.7 yrs
53	Finland	46.5 yrs	46.2 yrs
54	Liechtenstein	46.5 yrs	46.6 yrs
55	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	46.2 yrs	44.3 yrs
56	Jersey	46.2 yrs	46.4 yrs
57	Romania	46.2 yrs	46.2 yrs
58	Antigua and Barbuda	46.0 yrs	42.8 yrs
59	Saint Lucia	46.0 yrs	42.2 yrs
60	Czechia	45.9 yrs	47.4 yrs
61	Trinidad and Tobago	45.9 yrs	43.9 yrs
62	Luxembourg	45.7 yrs	44.3 yrs
63	Netherlands	45.6 yrs	43.9 yrs
64	Guadeloupe	45.6 yrs	48.2 yrs
65	Norway	45.6 yrs	44.2 yrs
66	Uruguay	45.5 yrs	42.1 yrs
67	Hungary	45.4 yrs	45.9 yrs
68	Belgium	45.3 yrs	44.9 yrs
69	Armenia	45.2 yrs	44.4 yrs
70	Canada	45.2 yrs	44.0 yrs
71	Montenegro	45.2 yrs	43.9 yrs
72	Iceland	45.1 yrs	42.5 yrs
73	Montserrat	45.1 yrs	45.8 yrs
74	Saint Barthélemy	44.9 yrs	41.6 yrs
75	Grenada	44.6 yrs	41.3 yrs
76	Türkiye	44.6 yrs	40.9 yrs
77	Denmark	44.5 yrs	43.3 yrs
78	Barbados	44.5 yrs	42.6 yrs
79	Aruba	44.4 yrs	43.6 yrs
80	Cayman Islands	44.4 yrs	43.9 yrs
81	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	44.4 yrs	39.7 yrs
82	Sweden	44.2 yrs	43.8 yrs
83	Brazil	44.2 yrs	41.1 yrs
84	Saint Kitts and Nevis	44.1 yrs	41.7 yrs
85	Colombia	44.0 yrs	40.0 yrs
86	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	44.0 yrs	43.1 yrs
87	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	43.7 yrs	41.1 yrs
88	France	43.6 yrs	43.3 yrs
89	Wallis and Futuna Islands	43.5 yrs	39.8 yrs
90	Gibraltar	43.4 yrs	40.9 yrs
91	Ireland	43.1 yrs	41.1 yrs
92	United Kingdom	43.0 yrs	42.2 yrs
93	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	43.0 yrs	41.4 yrs
94	New Zealand	42.8 yrs	41.7 yrs
95	Holy See	42.8 yrs	42.5 yrs
96	Bahamas	42.8 yrs	40.6 yrs
97	Bhutan	42.6 yrs	38.1 yrs
98	Seychelles	42.5 yrs	40.8 yrs
99	Monaco	42.5 yrs	45.5 yrs
100	United States Virgin Islands	42.4 yrs	43.5 yrs
101	Dominica	42.3 yrs	41.1 yrs
102	Argentina	42.2 yrs	38.8 yrs
103	Australia	42.1 yrs	41.6 yrs
104	United States of America	42.0 yrs	40.9 yrs
105	Réunion	41.8 yrs	40.1 yrs
106	Russian Federation	41.7 yrs	43.6 yrs
107	Brunei Darussalam	41.5 yrs	39.3 yrs
108	Cabo Verde	41.3 yrs	36.5 yrs
109	Palau	41.3 yrs	41.6 yrs
110	New Caledonia	40.8 yrs	38.5 yrs
111	Republic of Moldova	40.8 yrs	42.6 yrs
112	Georgia	40.6 yrs	40.1 yrs
113	Tunisia	40.6 yrs	38.4 yrs
114	Sri Lanka	40.5 yrs	37.6 yrs
115	Viet Nam	40.5 yrs	38.3 yrs
116	Malaysia	40.5 yrs	37.2 yrs
117	Faroe Islands	40.3 yrs	38.4 yrs
118	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	40.1 yrs	38.5 yrs
119	Azerbaijan	40.0 yrs	38.0 yrs
120	Ecuador	40.0 yrs	36.0 yrs
121	Northern Mariana Islands	40.0 yrs	38.6 yrs
122	Greenland	39.6 yrs	40.1 yrs
123	Peru	39.4 yrs	35.9 yrs
124	El Salvador	39.3 yrs	35.2 yrs
125	Mexico	39.1 yrs	35.5 yrs
126	Saint Martin (French part)	38.7 yrs	51.0 yrs
127	India	38.6 yrs	35.0 yrs
128	Cook Islands	38.6 yrs	36.9 yrs
129	Panama	38.5 yrs	35.4 yrs
130	Belize	38.2 yrs	34.3 yrs
131	Morocco	37.7 yrs	34.5 yrs
132	Indonesia	37.1 yrs	34.5 yrs
133	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	36.9 yrs	33.3 yrs
134	Lebanon	36.9 yrs	33.3 yrs
135	Western Sahara	36.8 yrs	35.2 yrs
136	Libya	36.6 yrs	33.1 yrs
137	Dominican Republic	36.5 yrs	33.5 yrs
138	Myanmar	36.5 yrs	34.5 yrs
139	Philippines	36.3 yrs	32.4 yrs
140	Suriname	36.1 yrs	33.4 yrs
141	Bangladesh	35.9 yrs	32.1 yrs
142	American Samoa	35.9 yrs	32.6 yrs
143	Kuwait	35.6 yrs	35.1 yrs
144	Nepal	35.4 yrs	31.5 yrs
145	Nicaragua	35.3 yrs	31.6 yrs
146	Tokelau	35.0 yrs	32.3 yrs
147	Bahrain	35.0 yrs	34.1 yrs
148	Algeria	34.9 yrs	31.6 yrs
149	Guam	34.9 yrs	33.4 yrs
150	Paraguay	33.8 yrs	31.1 yrs
151	Fiji	33.5 yrs	31.1 yrs
152	Guatemala	33.4 yrs	29.5 yrs
153	Lao People's Democratic Republic	33.4 yrs	30.1 yrs
154	Turkmenistan	33.1 yrs	30.1 yrs
155	Niue	32.9 yrs	31.5 yrs
156	United Arab Emirates	32.6 yrs	32.3 yrs
157	Guyana	32.6 yrs	29.9 yrs
158	Honduras	32.6 yrs	29.6 yrs
159	Cambodia	32.5 yrs	29.8 yrs
160	Jordan	32.5 yrs	29.4 yrs
161	Israel	32.4 yrs	30.7 yrs
162	South Africa	32.4 yrs	31.2 yrs
163	Qatar	32.3 yrs	32.2 yrs
164	Mongolia	32.3 yrs	28.8 yrs
165	Saudi Arabia	32.1 yrs	30.8 yrs
166	Syrian Arab Republic	32.1 yrs	29.7 yrs
167	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	32.1 yrs	29.6 yrs
168	Oman	31.7 yrs	30.2 yrs
169	Timor-Leste	31.6 yrs	27.7 yrs
170	Kazakhstan	31.4 yrs	29.7 yrs
171	Djibouti	31.4 yrs	29.2 yrs
172	Haiti	31.4 yrs	28.6 yrs
173	Egypt	31.2 yrs	28.2 yrs
174	Kyrgyzstan	30.8 yrs	28.0 yrs
175	Botswana	30.6 yrs	27.9 yrs
176	Eswatini	29.7 yrs	26.8 yrs
177	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	29.4 yrs	26.9 yrs
178	Lesotho	29.1 yrs	26.1 yrs
179	Papua New Guinea	28.8 yrs	26.5 yrs
180	French Guiana	28.7 yrs	27.3 yrs
181	Uzbekistan	28.4 yrs	27.0 yrs
182	State of Palestine	28.3 yrs	24.9 yrs
183	Namibia	28.2 yrs	25.0 yrs
184	Tajikistan	28.1 yrs	25.3 yrs
185	Tuvalu	28.1 yrs	25.6 yrs
186	Iraq	28.0 yrs	25.5 yrs
187	Kiribati	27.9 yrs	25.6 yrs
188	Marshall Islands	27.9 yrs	24.6 yrs
189	Ghana	27.2 yrs	25.1 yrs
190	Tonga	26.7 yrs	24.6 yrs
191	Sierra Leone	26.6 yrs	23.8 yrs
192	Solomon Islands	26.6 yrs	24.4 yrs
193	Kenya	26.5 yrs	24.2 yrs
194	Pakistan	26.5 yrs	24.3 yrs
195	Gambia	26.4 yrs	23.4 yrs
196	Guinea-Bissau	26.0 yrs	23.5 yrs
197	Rwanda	26.0 yrs	23.6 yrs
198	Senegal	25.9 yrs	23.5 yrs
199	Nauru	25.9 yrs	24.1 yrs
200	Gabon	25.8 yrs	23.9 yrs
201	Comoros	25.6 yrs	23.5 yrs
202	Vanuatu	25.4 yrs	23.4 yrs
203	Eritrea	25.3 yrs	23.1 yrs
204	South Sudan	25.2 yrs	23.5 yrs
205	Sao Tome and Principe	25.1 yrs	23.0 yrs
206	Burkina Faso	25.1 yrs	22.5 yrs
207	Ethiopia	24.9 yrs	22.3 yrs
208	Malawi	24.9 yrs	22.3 yrs
209	Liberia	24.9 yrs	22.6 yrs
210	Guinea	24.5 yrs	21.8 yrs
211	Equatorial Guinea	24.5 yrs	22.9 yrs
212	Yemen	24.4 yrs	21.4 yrs
213	Uganda	24.4 yrs	21.0 yrs
214	Madagascar	24.4 yrs	22.2 yrs
215	Sudan	24.3 yrs	21.7 yrs
216	Samoa	24.1 yrs	22.7 yrs
217	Nigeria	24.1 yrs	21.9 yrs
218	Zambia	23.8 yrs	21.6 yrs
219	Zimbabwe	23.8 yrs	21.8 yrs
220	Togo	23.5 yrs	21.8 yrs
221	Afghanistan	23.3 yrs	20.7 yrs
222	Cameroon	23.3 yrs	21.1 yrs
223	Congo	23.2 yrs	21.7 yrs
224	Benin	23.2 yrs	21.2 yrs
225	Côte d'Ivoire	22.7 yrs	21.4 yrs
226	Burundi	22.7 yrs	20.7 yrs
227	Mayotte	22.7 yrs	20.6 yrs
228	Mauritania	22.5 yrs	20.3 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	22.0 yrs	20.0 yrs
230	Mozambique	21.9 yrs	19.4 yrs
231	Niger	21.5 yrs	18.8 yrs
232	Angola	21.1 yrs	19.1 yrs
233	Mali	20.5 yrs	18.4 yrs
234	Somalia	20.4 yrs	18.1 yrs
235	Democratic Republic of the Congo	20.2 yrs	18.0 yrs
236	Chad	20.0 yrs	17.7 yrs
237	Central African Republic	19.5 yrs	16.6 yrs

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