Median age by country, 2053

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

◀▶2053

#	Country / area	Median age	2043
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	63.5 yrs	58.3 yrs
2	Republic of Korea	57.8 yrs	54.4 yrs
3	China, Macao SAR	57.8 yrs	52.3 yrs
4	China, Taiwan Province of China	57.0 yrs	54.0 yrs
5	Puerto Rico	55.9 yrs	52.1 yrs
6	Andorra	55.4 yrs	51.8 yrs
7	Malta	54.0 yrs	50.0 yrs
8	China	52.9 yrs	49.9 yrs
9	Italy	52.8 yrs	52.4 yrs
10	Japan	52.7 yrs	53.1 yrs
11	Singapore	52.6 yrs	46.7 yrs
12	Bermuda	52.5 yrs	51.9 yrs
13	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	52.5 yrs	51.9 yrs
14	Albania	52.4 yrs	47.6 yrs
15	Poland	52.0 yrs	50.3 yrs
16	Bosnia and Herzegovina	52.0 yrs	51.1 yrs
17	Ukraine	51.7 yrs	49.3 yrs
18	Spain	51.7 yrs	51.5 yrs
19	Lithuania	50.9 yrs	48.5 yrs
20	San Marino	50.6 yrs	51.9 yrs
21	Cuba	50.5 yrs	48.4 yrs
22	Mauritius	50.3 yrs	46.3 yrs
23	Chile	50.0 yrs	45.9 yrs
24	Maldives	49.9 yrs	46.0 yrs
25	Greece	49.8 yrs	50.4 yrs
26	British Virgin Islands	49.7 yrs	47.1 yrs
27	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	49.6 yrs	52.0 yrs
28	Croatia	49.3 yrs	48.5 yrs
29	Thailand	49.2 yrs	46.9 yrs
30	Slovakia	49.1 yrs	48.8 yrs
31	Austria	48.9 yrs	48.6 yrs
32	Isle of Man	48.9 yrs	48.5 yrs
33	Saint Helena	48.7 yrs	50.6 yrs
34	French Polynesia	48.7 yrs	44.9 yrs
35	Guernsey	48.6 yrs	48.0 yrs
36	Serbia	48.6 yrs	47.9 yrs
37	Anguilla	48.4 yrs	44.5 yrs
38	Estonia	48.2 yrs	48.9 yrs
39	Portugal	48.2 yrs	48.9 yrs
40	North Macedonia	48.2 yrs	46.7 yrs
41	Costa Rica	48.1 yrs	44.0 yrs
42	Curaçao	48.0 yrs	45.1 yrs
43	Belarus	48.0 yrs	48.2 yrs
44	Cyprus	47.9 yrs	46.3 yrs
45	Latvia	47.9 yrs	48.6 yrs
46	Bulgaria	47.7 yrs	48.7 yrs
47	Martinique	47.7 yrs	51.5 yrs
48	Switzerland	47.5 yrs	47.7 yrs
49	Jamaica	47.4 yrs	42.7 yrs
50	Slovenia	47.4 yrs	48.8 yrs
51	Turks and Caicos Islands	47.3 yrs	45.5 yrs
52	Germany	47.3 yrs	48.3 yrs
53	Finland	46.8 yrs	46.4 yrs
54	Antigua and Barbuda	46.5 yrs	43.5 yrs
55	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	46.5 yrs	44.8 yrs
56	Saint Lucia	46.5 yrs	43.1 yrs
57	Liechtenstein	46.4 yrs	46.7 yrs
58	Romania	46.4 yrs	46.2 yrs
59	Jersey	46.3 yrs	46.4 yrs
60	Trinidad and Tobago	46.2 yrs	44.4 yrs
61	Uruguay	46.1 yrs	42.8 yrs
62	Norway	46.0 yrs	44.6 yrs
63	Netherlands	45.9 yrs	44.2 yrs
64	Guadeloupe	45.9 yrs	47.5 yrs
65	Czechia	45.9 yrs	47.5 yrs
66	Saint Barthélemy	45.8 yrs	42.0 yrs
67	Luxembourg	45.8 yrs	44.8 yrs
68	Iceland	45.6 yrs	43.1 yrs
69	Belgium	45.5 yrs	45.1 yrs
70	Hungary	45.4 yrs	46.0 yrs
71	Montenegro	45.4 yrs	44.2 yrs
72	Armenia	45.3 yrs	44.8 yrs
73	Canada	45.3 yrs	44.3 yrs
74	Grenada	45.3 yrs	42.1 yrs
75	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	45.2 yrs	40.7 yrs
76	Türkiye	45.2 yrs	41.8 yrs
77	Montserrat	45.2 yrs	46.2 yrs
78	Barbados	44.8 yrs	43.0 yrs
79	Aruba	44.7 yrs	43.5 yrs
80	Colombia	44.7 yrs	40.9 yrs
81	Denmark	44.7 yrs	43.6 yrs
82	Brazil	44.7 yrs	41.8 yrs
83	Cayman Islands	44.6 yrs	44.1 yrs
84	Sweden	44.6 yrs	43.8 yrs
85	Saint Kitts and Nevis	44.6 yrs	42.4 yrs
86	Wallis and Futuna Islands	44.4 yrs	40.3 yrs
87	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	44.4 yrs	43.1 yrs
88	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	44.3 yrs	41.7 yrs
89	France	43.9 yrs	43.2 yrs
90	Gibraltar	43.8 yrs	41.4 yrs
91	Ireland	43.7 yrs	41.4 yrs
92	United Kingdom	43.4 yrs	42.4 yrs
93	Bhutan	43.4 yrs	39.0 yrs
94	Bahamas	43.3 yrs	41.0 yrs
95	New Zealand	43.2 yrs	41.9 yrs
96	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	43.1 yrs	41.9 yrs
97	Argentina	43.0 yrs	39.5 yrs
98	Holy See	42.8 yrs	42.3 yrs
99	Dominica	42.7 yrs	41.4 yrs
100	Seychelles	42.6 yrs	41.4 yrs
101	United States Virgin Islands	42.4 yrs	42.9 yrs
102	United States of America	42.3 yrs	41.0 yrs
103	Australia	42.3 yrs	41.7 yrs
104	Cabo Verde	42.3 yrs	37.4 yrs
105	Réunion	42.2 yrs	40.2 yrs
106	Monaco	41.9 yrs	44.8 yrs
107	Russian Federation	41.9 yrs	42.9 yrs
108	Brunei Darussalam	41.8 yrs	39.8 yrs
109	Palau	41.6 yrs	41.1 yrs
110	Tunisia	41.3 yrs	38.8 yrs
111	New Caledonia	41.2 yrs	39.0 yrs
112	Republic of Moldova	41.2 yrs	41.8 yrs
113	Georgia	41.1 yrs	40.1 yrs
114	Malaysia	41.1 yrs	37.9 yrs
115	Sri Lanka	41.0 yrs	38.1 yrs
116	Viet Nam	41.0 yrs	38.6 yrs
117	Ecuador	40.8 yrs	36.8 yrs
118	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	40.7 yrs	38.8 yrs
119	Azerbaijan	40.6 yrs	38.1 yrs
120	Faroe Islands	40.6 yrs	38.8 yrs
121	Northern Mariana Islands	40.5 yrs	38.4 yrs
122	El Salvador	40.1 yrs	36.0 yrs
123	Peru	40.0 yrs	36.6 yrs
124	Mexico	39.8 yrs	36.2 yrs
125	Greenland	39.7 yrs	40.1 yrs
126	Cook Islands	39.5 yrs	36.2 yrs
127	India	39.3 yrs	35.8 yrs
128	Panama	39.1 yrs	36.0 yrs
129	Saint Martin (French part)	38.9 yrs	49.3 yrs
130	Belize	38.9 yrs	35.2 yrs
131	Morocco	38.4 yrs	35.1 yrs
132	Indonesia	37.6 yrs	35.0 yrs
133	Lebanon	37.6 yrs	33.9 yrs
134	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	37.5 yrs	34.0 yrs
135	Libya	37.2 yrs	33.8 yrs
136	Philippines	37.1 yrs	33.1 yrs
137	Western Sahara	37.1 yrs	35.5 yrs
138	Dominican Republic	37.0 yrs	34.0 yrs
139	Myanmar	36.9 yrs	35.0 yrs
140	Suriname	36.6 yrs	34.0 yrs
141	American Samoa	36.6 yrs	33.2 yrs
142	Bangladesh	36.5 yrs	32.9 yrs
143	Nepal	36.1 yrs	32.3 yrs
144	Nicaragua	36.0 yrs	32.4 yrs
145	Algeria	35.7 yrs	32.2 yrs
146	Kuwait	35.7 yrs	35.2 yrs
147	Guam	35.3 yrs	33.6 yrs
148	Tokelau	35.2 yrs	33.0 yrs
149	Bahrain	35.2 yrs	34.3 yrs
150	Paraguay	34.4 yrs	31.6 yrs
151	Guatemala	34.2 yrs	30.3 yrs
152	Fiji	34.0 yrs	31.5 yrs
153	Lao People's Democratic Republic	34.0 yrs	30.7 yrs
154	Turkmenistan	33.8 yrs	30.6 yrs
155	Guyana	33.2 yrs	30.4 yrs
156	Honduras	33.2 yrs	30.2 yrs
157	Jordan	33.1 yrs	30.1 yrs
158	Cambodia	33.0 yrs	30.3 yrs
159	Niue	33.0 yrs	31.9 yrs
160	Mongolia	32.9 yrs	29.5 yrs
161	Israel	32.7 yrs	31.0 yrs
162	South Africa	32.7 yrs	31.5 yrs
163	United Arab Emirates	32.6 yrs	32.4 yrs
164	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	32.6 yrs	30.1 yrs
165	Syrian Arab Republic	32.4 yrs	30.5 yrs
166	Timor-Leste	32.4 yrs	28.4 yrs
167	Qatar	32.3 yrs	32.2 yrs
168	Saudi Arabia	32.3 yrs	31.1 yrs
169	Oman	31.9 yrs	30.4 yrs
170	Haiti	31.9 yrs	29.2 yrs
171	Kazakhstan	31.8 yrs	30.0 yrs
172	Egypt	31.7 yrs	28.8 yrs
173	Djibouti	31.7 yrs	29.7 yrs
174	Kyrgyzstan	31.4 yrs	28.5 yrs
175	Botswana	31.2 yrs	28.4 yrs
176	Eswatini	30.3 yrs	27.3 yrs
177	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	30.0 yrs	27.4 yrs
178	Lesotho	29.5 yrs	26.7 yrs
179	Papua New Guinea	29.2 yrs	27.0 yrs
180	State of Palestine	29.0 yrs	25.6 yrs
181	French Guiana	29.0 yrs	27.6 yrs
182	Uzbekistan	28.9 yrs	27.2 yrs
183	Tajikistan	28.7 yrs	25.9 yrs
184	Namibia	28.7 yrs	25.6 yrs
185	Tuvalu	28.6 yrs	26.2 yrs
186	Iraq	28.5 yrs	26.1 yrs
187	Kiribati	28.3 yrs	26.1 yrs
188	Marshall Islands	28.3 yrs	25.2 yrs
189	Ghana	27.6 yrs	25.5 yrs
190	Sierra Leone	27.2 yrs	24.4 yrs
191	Tonga	27.2 yrs	25.1 yrs
192	Solomon Islands	27.1 yrs	24.9 yrs
193	Gambia	27.0 yrs	24.0 yrs
194	Kenya	27.0 yrs	24.6 yrs
195	Pakistan	26.9 yrs	24.7 yrs
196	Guinea-Bissau	26.5 yrs	24.0 yrs
197	Rwanda	26.5 yrs	24.1 yrs
198	Senegal	26.4 yrs	23.9 yrs
199	Nauru	26.2 yrs	24.5 yrs
200	Gabon	26.1 yrs	24.3 yrs
201	Comoros	26.1 yrs	23.9 yrs
202	Eritrea	25.8 yrs	23.5 yrs
203	Vanuatu	25.8 yrs	23.8 yrs
204	Sao Tome and Principe	25.6 yrs	23.3 yrs
205	Burkina Faso	25.6 yrs	23.1 yrs
206	South Sudan	25.6 yrs	23.8 yrs
207	Ethiopia	25.4 yrs	22.8 yrs
208	Malawi	25.4 yrs	22.8 yrs
209	Liberia	25.4 yrs	23.1 yrs
210	Uganda	25.1 yrs	21.7 yrs
211	Guinea	25.1 yrs	22.4 yrs
212	Yemen	24.9 yrs	22.0 yrs
213	Madagascar	24.9 yrs	22.6 yrs
214	Equatorial Guinea	24.9 yrs	23.2 yrs
215	Sudan	24.8 yrs	22.2 yrs
216	Nigeria	24.6 yrs	22.3 yrs
217	Samoa	24.3 yrs	23.1 yrs
218	Zambia	24.3 yrs	22.0 yrs
219	Zimbabwe	24.3 yrs	22.2 yrs
220	Afghanistan	23.8 yrs	21.2 yrs
221	Togo	23.8 yrs	22.2 yrs
222	Cameroon	23.7 yrs	21.6 yrs
223	Congo	23.6 yrs	22.0 yrs
224	Benin	23.6 yrs	21.6 yrs
225	Burundi	23.2 yrs	21.1 yrs
226	Mayotte	23.2 yrs	21.1 yrs
227	Côte d'Ivoire	23.0 yrs	21.7 yrs
228	Mauritania	23.0 yrs	20.7 yrs
229	United Republic of Tanzania	22.4 yrs	20.4 yrs
230	Mozambique	22.4 yrs	19.9 yrs
231	Niger	22.0 yrs	19.3 yrs
232	Angola	21.6 yrs	19.5 yrs
233	Mali	21.0 yrs	18.7 yrs
234	Somalia	20.9 yrs	18.5 yrs
235	Democratic Republic of the Congo	20.7 yrs	18.4 yrs
236	Chad	20.5 yrs	18.1 yrs
237	Central African Republic	20.1 yrs	17.2 yrs

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