Median age by country, 2055

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

◀▶2055

#	Country / area	Median age	2045
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	64.4 yrs	59.3 yrs
2	China, Macao SAR	58.6 yrs	53.5 yrs
3	Republic of Korea	58.5 yrs	55.0 yrs
4	China, Taiwan Province of China	57.5 yrs	54.8 yrs
5	Puerto Rico	56.8 yrs	52.8 yrs
6	Andorra	56.1 yrs	52.7 yrs
7	Malta	54.4 yrs	50.9 yrs
8	Singapore	53.6 yrs	48.0 yrs
9	China	53.4 yrs	50.6 yrs
10	Albania	53.1 yrs	48.6 yrs
11	Italy	52.8 yrs	52.7 yrs
12	Japan	52.8 yrs	53.0 yrs
13	Bermuda	52.7 yrs	52.1 yrs
14	Bosnia and Herzegovina	52.2 yrs	51.2 yrs
15	Ukraine	52.1 yrs	49.9 yrs
16	Poland	52.1 yrs	50.8 yrs
17	Spain	51.6 yrs	51.7 yrs
18	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	51.3 yrs	52.7 yrs
19	Lithuania	51.1 yrs	49.1 yrs
20	Mauritius	51.0 yrs	47.1 yrs
21	Cuba	50.8 yrs	48.8 yrs
22	Chile	50.6 yrs	46.8 yrs
23	San Marino	50.5 yrs	51.6 yrs
24	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	50.2 yrs	52.3 yrs
25	British Virgin Islands	50.1 yrs	47.8 yrs
26	Maldives	49.9 yrs	47.2 yrs
27	Greece	49.8 yrs	50.3 yrs
28	Thailand	49.6 yrs	47.5 yrs
29	French Polynesia	49.5 yrs	45.5 yrs
30	Croatia	49.4 yrs	48.6 yrs
31	Anguilla	49.2 yrs	45.2 yrs
32	Slovakia	49.0 yrs	49.1 yrs
33	Isle of Man	49.0 yrs	48.5 yrs
34	Austria	48.8 yrs	48.9 yrs
35	Costa Rica	48.8 yrs	44.9 yrs
36	Serbia	48.7 yrs	48.1 yrs
37	Saint Helena	48.7 yrs	50.9 yrs
38	Guernsey	48.6 yrs	48.1 yrs
39	Curaçao	48.4 yrs	45.9 yrs
40	North Macedonia	48.4 yrs	47.0 yrs
41	Estonia	48.3 yrs	48.9 yrs
42	Jamaica	48.3 yrs	43.7 yrs
43	Portugal	48.2 yrs	48.7 yrs
44	Cyprus	48.1 yrs	46.8 yrs
45	Belarus	48.1 yrs	48.3 yrs
46	Latvia	48.1 yrs	48.5 yrs
47	Bulgaria	47.7 yrs	48.6 yrs
48	Martinique	47.6 yrs	51.0 yrs
49	Turks and Caicos Islands	47.5 yrs	46.1 yrs
50	Switzerland	47.4 yrs	47.9 yrs
51	Slovenia	47.3 yrs	48.7 yrs
52	Saint Lucia	47.1 yrs	43.9 yrs
53	Finland	47.1 yrs	46.4 yrs
54	Antigua and Barbuda	47.0 yrs	44.2 yrs
55	Germany	47.0 yrs	48.3 yrs
56	Uruguay	46.8 yrs	43.5 yrs
57	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	46.8 yrs	45.2 yrs
58	Saint Barthélemy	46.7 yrs	42.6 yrs
59	Trinidad and Tobago	46.6 yrs	44.8 yrs
60	Romania	46.6 yrs	46.2 yrs
61	Jersey	46.4 yrs	46.4 yrs
62	Liechtenstein	46.4 yrs	46.7 yrs
63	Norway	46.3 yrs	44.9 yrs
64	Iceland	46.1 yrs	43.6 yrs
65	Netherlands	46.1 yrs	44.6 yrs
66	Guadeloupe	46.1 yrs	46.6 yrs
67	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	46.1 yrs	41.7 yrs
68	Czechia	46.1 yrs	47.1 yrs
69	Grenada	46.0 yrs	42.8 yrs
70	Luxembourg	46.0 yrs	45.2 yrs
71	Türkiye	45.9 yrs	42.6 yrs
72	Belgium	45.9 yrs	45.1 yrs
73	Montenegro	45.8 yrs	44.4 yrs
74	Montserrat	45.6 yrs	46.0 yrs
75	Armenia	45.5 yrs	45.1 yrs
76	Canada	45.5 yrs	44.6 yrs
77	Hungary	45.5 yrs	45.9 yrs
78	Colombia	45.4 yrs	41.7 yrs
79	Wallis and Futuna Islands	45.3 yrs	40.9 yrs
80	Barbados	45.2 yrs	43.4 yrs
81	Aruba	45.1 yrs	43.5 yrs
82	Brazil	45.1 yrs	42.5 yrs
83	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	45.0 yrs	43.1 yrs
84	Saint Kitts and Nevis	45.0 yrs	43.0 yrs
85	Denmark	45.0 yrs	43.8 yrs
86	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	44.9 yrs	42.2 yrs
87	Sweden	44.9 yrs	43.8 yrs
88	Cayman Islands	44.8 yrs	44.2 yrs
89	Ireland	44.3 yrs	41.8 yrs
90	Bhutan	44.2 yrs	39.9 yrs
91	France	44.2 yrs	43.2 yrs
92	Gibraltar	44.1 yrs	41.9 yrs
93	Argentina	43.8 yrs	40.1 yrs
94	Bahamas	43.8 yrs	41.4 yrs
95	United Kingdom	43.7 yrs	42.5 yrs
96	New Zealand	43.5 yrs	42.1 yrs
97	Cabo Verde	43.3 yrs	38.4 yrs
98	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	43.2 yrs	42.3 yrs
99	Dominica	43.1 yrs	41.5 yrs
100	Seychelles	42.7 yrs	41.9 yrs
101	United States of America	42.6 yrs	41.2 yrs
102	Holy See	42.6 yrs	42.7 yrs
103	Réunion	42.6 yrs	40.5 yrs
104	Australia	42.5 yrs	41.7 yrs
105	United States Virgin Islands	42.5 yrs	42.5 yrs
106	Russian Federation	42.3 yrs	42.2 yrs
107	Brunei Darussalam	42.2 yrs	40.3 yrs
108	Tunisia	42.0 yrs	39.1 yrs
109	Palau	41.9 yrs	40.9 yrs
110	Viet Nam	41.8 yrs	39.0 yrs
111	Malaysia	41.7 yrs	38.6 yrs
112	Republic of Moldova	41.7 yrs	41.1 yrs
113	Sri Lanka	41.6 yrs	38.7 yrs
114	Ecuador	41.5 yrs	37.5 yrs
115	Georgia	41.5 yrs	40.0 yrs
116	New Caledonia	41.5 yrs	39.5 yrs
117	Monaco	41.4 yrs	44.3 yrs
118	Azerbaijan	41.3 yrs	38.4 yrs
119	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	41.3 yrs	38.9 yrs
120	El Salvador	40.9 yrs	36.8 yrs
121	Faroe Islands	40.9 yrs	39.3 yrs
122	Northern Mariana Islands	40.9 yrs	38.6 yrs
123	Peru	40.6 yrs	37.3 yrs
124	Mexico	40.5 yrs	36.9 yrs
125	Cook Islands	40.3 yrs	36.5 yrs
126	India	39.9 yrs	36.5 yrs
127	Greenland	39.9 yrs	39.9 yrs
128	Panama	39.7 yrs	36.6 yrs
129	Belize	39.6 yrs	36.0 yrs
130	Saint Martin (French part)	39.1 yrs	39.3 yrs
131	Morocco	39.0 yrs	35.8 yrs
132	Lebanon	38.3 yrs	34.6 yrs
133	Indonesia	38.1 yrs	35.5 yrs
134	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	38.1 yrs	34.7 yrs
135	Philippines	37.9 yrs	33.9 yrs
136	Libya	37.9 yrs	34.5 yrs
137	Dominican Republic	37.6 yrs	34.6 yrs
138	Myanmar	37.4 yrs	35.4 yrs
139	Western Sahara	37.4 yrs	35.8 yrs
140	American Samoa	37.3 yrs	33.9 yrs
141	Bangladesh	37.2 yrs	33.7 yrs
142	Suriname	37.1 yrs	34.5 yrs
143	Nepal	36.9 yrs	33.1 yrs
144	Nicaragua	36.6 yrs	33.1 yrs
145	Algeria	36.4 yrs	32.8 yrs
146	Guam	35.8 yrs	33.8 yrs
147	Kuwait	35.8 yrs	35.3 yrs
148	Tokelau	35.5 yrs	33.6 yrs
149	Bahrain	35.3 yrs	34.5 yrs
150	Paraguay	35.0 yrs	32.1 yrs
151	Guatemala	34.9 yrs	31.0 yrs
152	Lao People's Democratic Republic	34.7 yrs	31.4 yrs
153	Fiji	34.5 yrs	32.0 yrs
154	Turkmenistan	34.4 yrs	31.2 yrs
155	Guyana	33.8 yrs	30.9 yrs
156	Honduras	33.8 yrs	30.8 yrs
157	Jordan	33.7 yrs	30.7 yrs
158	Cambodia	33.6 yrs	30.8 yrs
159	Mongolia	33.5 yrs	30.2 yrs
160	Timor-Leste	33.2 yrs	29.1 yrs
161	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	33.1 yrs	30.6 yrs
162	South Africa	33.1 yrs	31.8 yrs
163	Israel	33.0 yrs	31.3 yrs
164	Niue	33.0 yrs	32.3 yrs
165	Syrian Arab Republic	32.7 yrs	31.2 yrs
166	United Arab Emirates	32.6 yrs	32.4 yrs
167	Saudi Arabia	32.5 yrs	31.3 yrs
168	Haiti	32.4 yrs	29.7 yrs
169	Kazakhstan	32.3 yrs	30.4 yrs
170	Qatar	32.3 yrs	32.3 yrs
171	Egypt	32.1 yrs	29.4 yrs
172	Oman	32.1 yrs	30.7 yrs
173	Djibouti	32.0 yrs	30.1 yrs
174	Botswana	31.9 yrs	28.9 yrs
175	Kyrgyzstan	31.8 yrs	29.0 yrs
176	Eswatini	30.9 yrs	27.9 yrs
177	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	30.5 yrs	27.9 yrs
178	Lesotho	30.0 yrs	27.4 yrs
179	Papua New Guinea	29.6 yrs	27.4 yrs
180	State of Palestine	29.6 yrs	26.3 yrs
181	French Guiana	29.5 yrs	27.9 yrs
182	Uzbekistan	29.4 yrs	27.4 yrs
183	Tajikistan	29.2 yrs	26.4 yrs
184	Namibia	29.2 yrs	26.2 yrs
185	Iraq	29.0 yrs	26.6 yrs
186	Tuvalu	28.9 yrs	26.7 yrs
187	Kiribati	28.7 yrs	26.5 yrs
188	Marshall Islands	28.4 yrs	25.8 yrs
189	Ghana	28.0 yrs	25.9 yrs
190	Sierra Leone	27.7 yrs	24.9 yrs
191	Gambia	27.6 yrs	24.6 yrs
192	Tonga	27.6 yrs	25.5 yrs
193	Kenya	27.5 yrs	25.1 yrs
194	Solomon Islands	27.5 yrs	25.3 yrs
195	Pakistan	27.4 yrs	25.1 yrs
196	Guinea-Bissau	27.0 yrs	24.5 yrs
197	Rwanda	27.0 yrs	24.6 yrs
198	Senegal	26.9 yrs	24.4 yrs
199	Comoros	26.5 yrs	24.3 yrs
200	Eritrea	26.4 yrs	23.9 yrs
201	Gabon	26.4 yrs	24.7 yrs
202	Nauru	26.4 yrs	24.8 yrs
203	Vanuatu	26.2 yrs	24.3 yrs
204	Sao Tome and Principe	26.1 yrs	23.7 yrs
205	Burkina Faso	26.1 yrs	23.6 yrs
206	South Sudan	26.1 yrs	24.1 yrs
207	Ethiopia	25.9 yrs	23.3 yrs
208	Malawi	25.9 yrs	23.3 yrs
209	Liberia	25.9 yrs	23.5 yrs
210	Uganda	25.8 yrs	22.3 yrs
211	Guinea	25.6 yrs	22.9 yrs
212	Yemen	25.5 yrs	22.6 yrs
213	Sudan	25.3 yrs	22.7 yrs
214	Madagascar	25.3 yrs	23.1 yrs
215	Equatorial Guinea	25.3 yrs	23.5 yrs
216	Nigeria	25.1 yrs	22.7 yrs
217	Zambia	24.7 yrs	22.5 yrs
218	Zimbabwe	24.7 yrs	22.6 yrs
219	Samoa	24.6 yrs	23.4 yrs
220	Afghanistan	24.3 yrs	21.7 yrs
221	Cameroon	24.1 yrs	22.0 yrs
222	Togo	24.1 yrs	22.5 yrs
223	Congo	24.0 yrs	22.3 yrs
224	Benin	24.0 yrs	21.9 yrs
225	Burundi	23.6 yrs	21.5 yrs
226	Mayotte	23.6 yrs	21.4 yrs
227	Mauritania	23.5 yrs	21.2 yrs
228	Côte d'Ivoire	23.3 yrs	22.0 yrs
229	Mozambique	23.0 yrs	20.4 yrs
230	United Republic of Tanzania	22.8 yrs	20.8 yrs
231	Niger	22.6 yrs	19.8 yrs
232	Angola	22.0 yrs	19.9 yrs
233	Mali	21.5 yrs	19.1 yrs
234	Somalia	21.4 yrs	19.0 yrs
235	Democratic Republic of the Congo	21.1 yrs	18.9 yrs
236	Chad	20.9 yrs	18.6 yrs
237	Central African Republic	20.7 yrs	17.7 yrs

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