Median age by country, 2059

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

◀▶2059

#	Country / area	Median age	2049
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	66.2 yrs	61.5 yrs
2	China, Macao SAR	60.0 yrs	55.8 yrs
3	Republic of Korea	59.8 yrs	56.4 yrs
4	Puerto Rico	58.7 yrs	54.3 yrs
5	China, Taiwan Province of China	57.9 yrs	56.0 yrs
6	Andorra	57.4 yrs	54.2 yrs
7	Singapore	55.6 yrs	50.3 yrs
8	Malta	54.8 yrs	52.7 yrs
9	Albania	54.4 yrs	50.6 yrs
10	China	54.4 yrs	51.9 yrs
11	Ukraine	53.0 yrs	50.9 yrs
12	Japan	53.0 yrs	52.8 yrs
13	Italy	52.9 yrs	52.9 yrs
14	Bermuda	52.9 yrs	52.3 yrs
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	52.8 yrs	51.3 yrs
16	Mauritius	52.6 yrs	48.7 yrs
17	Poland	52.3 yrs	51.6 yrs
18	Spain	51.9 yrs	51.8 yrs
19	Chile	51.9 yrs	48.5 yrs
20	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	51.8 yrs	51.6 yrs
21	Lithuania	51.5 yrs	50.1 yrs
22	Cuba	51.1 yrs	49.7 yrs
23	British Virgin Islands	51.1 yrs	48.9 yrs
24	French Polynesia	51.0 yrs	47.2 yrs
25	Anguilla	50.8 yrs	46.8 yrs
26	San Marino	50.5 yrs	50.9 yrs
27	Maldives	50.4 yrs	49.1 yrs
28	Greece	50.3 yrs	49.9 yrs
29	Thailand	50.3 yrs	48.4 yrs
30	Costa Rica	50.2 yrs	46.6 yrs
31	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	50.1 yrs	53.5 yrs
32	Croatia	49.9 yrs	49.0 yrs
33	Jamaica	49.9 yrs	45.6 yrs
34	Isle of Man	49.5 yrs	48.6 yrs
35	Curaçao	49.3 yrs	47.0 yrs
36	Slovakia	49.2 yrs	49.3 yrs
37	Estonia	49.1 yrs	48.5 yrs
38	North Macedonia	49.1 yrs	47.6 yrs
39	Guernsey	49.0 yrs	48.5 yrs
40	Belarus	49.0 yrs	48.1 yrs
41	Latvia	49.0 yrs	48.0 yrs
42	Serbia	48.9 yrs	48.3 yrs
43	Saint Helena	48.8 yrs	49.7 yrs
44	Austria	48.7 yrs	49.2 yrs
45	Saint Barthélemy	48.6 yrs	44.0 yrs
46	Cyprus	48.4 yrs	47.5 yrs
47	Antigua and Barbuda	48.1 yrs	45.5 yrs
48	Uruguay	48.1 yrs	44.8 yrs
49	Saint Lucia	48.1 yrs	45.4 yrs
50	Portugal	48.1 yrs	48.4 yrs
51	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	48.0 yrs	43.5 yrs
52	Turks and Caicos Islands	48.0 yrs	46.8 yrs
53	Finland	48.0 yrs	46.4 yrs
54	Bulgaria	47.8 yrs	48.1 yrs
55	Martinique	47.8 yrs	48.7 yrs
56	Slovenia	47.6 yrs	48.1 yrs
57	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	47.5 yrs	45.9 yrs
58	Wallis and Futuna Islands	47.4 yrs	42.6 yrs
59	Grenada	47.4 yrs	44.0 yrs
60	Switzerland	47.4 yrs	47.9 yrs
61	Trinidad and Tobago	47.4 yrs	45.5 yrs
62	Türkiye	47.2 yrs	44.0 yrs
63	Iceland	47.1 yrs	44.6 yrs
64	Norway	47.1 yrs	45.4 yrs
65	Romania	47.0 yrs	46.2 yrs
66	Montserrat	46.8 yrs	45.0 yrs
67	Germany	46.7 yrs	48.1 yrs
68	Montenegro	46.7 yrs	45.0 yrs
69	Jersey	46.6 yrs	46.3 yrs
70	Czechia	46.6 yrs	46.2 yrs
71	Colombia	46.5 yrs	43.3 yrs
72	Belgium	46.5 yrs	45.2 yrs
73	Netherlands	46.4 yrs	45.3 yrs
74	Guadeloupe	46.4 yrs	45.5 yrs
75	Luxembourg	46.4 yrs	45.5 yrs
76	Armenia	46.3 yrs	45.2 yrs
77	Liechtenstein	46.3 yrs	46.6 yrs
78	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	46.2 yrs	43.2 yrs
79	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	46.0 yrs	43.5 yrs
80	Brazil	46.0 yrs	43.6 yrs
81	Aruba	45.8 yrs	44.0 yrs
82	Canada	45.8 yrs	45.0 yrs
83	Bhutan	45.8 yrs	41.8 yrs
84	Sweden	45.7 yrs	44.0 yrs
85	Barbados	45.7 yrs	44.2 yrs
86	Hungary	45.5 yrs	45.5 yrs
87	Ireland	45.4 yrs	42.6 yrs
88	Argentina	45.4 yrs	41.5 yrs
89	Cabo Verde	45.3 yrs	40.3 yrs
90	Saint Kitts and Nevis	45.3 yrs	43.7 yrs
91	Denmark	45.3 yrs	44.2 yrs
92	Cayman Islands	45.1 yrs	44.3 yrs
93	Gibraltar	44.7 yrs	42.9 yrs
94	France	44.7 yrs	43.4 yrs
95	United Kingdom	44.5 yrs	42.7 yrs
96	Bahamas	44.5 yrs	42.3 yrs
97	New Zealand	44.2 yrs	42.5 yrs
98	Dominica	44.0 yrs	42.0 yrs
99	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	43.6 yrs	42.9 yrs
100	Tunisia	43.5 yrs	40.0 yrs
101	Réunion	43.4 yrs	41.3 yrs
102	Viet Nam	43.3 yrs	40.0 yrs
103	Russian Federation	43.2 yrs	41.7 yrs
104	United States of America	43.0 yrs	41.7 yrs
105	Brunei Darussalam	43.0 yrs	41.2 yrs
106	Malaysia	43.0 yrs	39.8 yrs
107	Republic of Moldova	43.0 yrs	40.7 yrs
108	Ecuador	42.9 yrs	39.1 yrs
109	Australia	42.9 yrs	41.9 yrs
110	Holy See	42.9 yrs	42.7 yrs
111	Georgia	42.8 yrs	40.2 yrs
112	Seychelles	42.8 yrs	42.4 yrs
113	Sri Lanka	42.7 yrs	39.9 yrs
114	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	42.6 yrs	39.6 yrs
115	Azerbaijan	42.5 yrs	39.4 yrs
116	El Salvador	42.5 yrs	38.5 yrs
117	United States Virgin Islands	42.5 yrs	42.3 yrs
118	Palau	42.4 yrs	41.1 yrs
119	New Caledonia	42.2 yrs	40.4 yrs
120	Cook Islands	42.0 yrs	37.9 yrs
121	Peru	41.8 yrs	38.7 yrs
122	Mexico	41.7 yrs	38.4 yrs
123	Northern Mariana Islands	41.7 yrs	39.5 yrs
124	Faroe Islands	41.6 yrs	40.0 yrs
125	Belize	41.1 yrs	37.5 yrs
126	India	41.0 yrs	37.9 yrs
127	Panama	40.9 yrs	37.9 yrs
128	Monaco	40.8 yrs	43.1 yrs
129	Greenland	40.5 yrs	39.6 yrs
130	Morocco	40.2 yrs	37.1 yrs
131	Saint Martin (French part)	39.7 yrs	38.6 yrs
132	Philippines	39.4 yrs	35.5 yrs
133	Lebanon	39.3 yrs	36.1 yrs
134	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	39.1 yrs	36.1 yrs
135	Libya	39.0 yrs	35.9 yrs
136	Indonesia	38.9 yrs	36.6 yrs
137	Dominican Republic	38.8 yrs	35.9 yrs
138	American Samoa	38.6 yrs	35.3 yrs
139	Bangladesh	38.5 yrs	35.2 yrs
140	Nepal	38.3 yrs	34.6 yrs
141	Myanmar	38.2 yrs	36.1 yrs
142	Suriname	38.0 yrs	35.5 yrs
143	Western Sahara	38.0 yrs	36.4 yrs
144	Algeria	37.9 yrs	34.2 yrs
145	Nicaragua	37.9 yrs	34.6 yrs
146	Guam	36.7 yrs	34.5 yrs
147	Guatemala	36.1 yrs	32.6 yrs
148	Paraguay	36.1 yrs	33.2 yrs
149	Tokelau	36.0 yrs	34.6 yrs
150	Lao People's Democratic Republic	36.0 yrs	32.7 yrs
151	Kuwait	35.8 yrs	35.5 yrs
152	Turkmenistan	35.7 yrs	32.4 yrs
153	Bahrain	35.4 yrs	34.9 yrs
154	Fiji	35.3 yrs	33.0 yrs
155	Honduras	35.0 yrs	32.0 yrs
156	Guyana	34.9 yrs	32.0 yrs
157	Cambodia	34.7 yrs	31.9 yrs
158	Jordan	34.7 yrs	32.0 yrs
159	Mongolia	34.5 yrs	31.7 yrs
160	Timor-Leste	34.4 yrs	30.8 yrs
161	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	34.0 yrs	31.6 yrs
162	South Africa	33.8 yrs	32.2 yrs
163	Israel	33.7 yrs	32.0 yrs
164	Syrian Arab Republic	33.7 yrs	32.0 yrs
165	Niue	33.3 yrs	32.8 yrs
166	Haiti	33.3 yrs	30.8 yrs
167	Botswana	33.1 yrs	30.0 yrs
168	Kazakhstan	33.0 yrs	31.0 yrs
169	Egypt	32.9 yrs	30.7 yrs
170	Saudi Arabia	32.9 yrs	31.9 yrs
171	United Arab Emirates	32.7 yrs	32.6 yrs
172	Kyrgyzstan	32.7 yrs	30.2 yrs
173	Djibouti	32.7 yrs	31.0 yrs
174	Oman	32.5 yrs	31.4 yrs
175	Qatar	32.3 yrs	32.3 yrs
176	Eswatini	31.9 yrs	29.1 yrs
177	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	31.6 yrs	28.9 yrs
178	State of Palestine	30.9 yrs	27.6 yrs
179	Lesotho	30.9 yrs	28.5 yrs
180	Papua New Guinea	30.4 yrs	28.3 yrs
181	Uzbekistan	30.3 yrs	27.9 yrs
182	French Guiana	30.3 yrs	28.5 yrs
183	Tajikistan	30.1 yrs	27.6 yrs
184	Namibia	30.1 yrs	27.5 yrs
185	Iraq	30.0 yrs	27.6 yrs
186	Kiribati	29.5 yrs	27.4 yrs
187	Tuvalu	29.5 yrs	27.7 yrs
188	Gambia	28.9 yrs	25.8 yrs
189	Ghana	28.8 yrs	26.8 yrs
190	Sierra Leone	28.8 yrs	26.1 yrs
191	Marshall Islands	28.8 yrs	27.2 yrs
192	Tonga	28.6 yrs	26.3 yrs
193	Kenya	28.5 yrs	26.0 yrs
194	Solomon Islands	28.4 yrs	26.2 yrs
195	Pakistan	28.3 yrs	26.0 yrs
196	Rwanda	28.1 yrs	25.6 yrs
197	Guinea-Bissau	28.0 yrs	25.5 yrs
198	Senegal	27.9 yrs	25.4 yrs
199	Eritrea	27.5 yrs	24.8 yrs
200	Comoros	27.3 yrs	25.2 yrs
201	Burkina Faso	27.2 yrs	24.6 yrs
202	Uganda	27.1 yrs	23.7 yrs
203	Gabon	27.1 yrs	25.4 yrs
204	Sao Tome and Principe	27.1 yrs	24.6 yrs
205	South Sudan	27.1 yrs	24.8 yrs
206	Nauru	27.0 yrs	25.6 yrs
207	Vanuatu	27.0 yrs	25.1 yrs
208	Malawi	27.0 yrs	24.4 yrs
209	Ethiopia	26.9 yrs	24.4 yrs
210	Liberia	26.9 yrs	24.4 yrs
211	Guinea	26.6 yrs	24.0 yrs
212	Yemen	26.5 yrs	23.8 yrs
213	Sudan	26.3 yrs	23.7 yrs
214	Madagascar	26.2 yrs	24.0 yrs
215	Nigeria	26.1 yrs	23.6 yrs
216	Equatorial Guinea	26.1 yrs	24.2 yrs
217	Zambia	25.7 yrs	23.4 yrs
218	Zimbabwe	25.7 yrs	23.4 yrs
219	Afghanistan	25.4 yrs	22.8 yrs
220	Samoa	25.3 yrs	23.9 yrs
221	Cameroon	25.0 yrs	22.9 yrs
222	Togo	24.9 yrs	23.1 yrs
223	Benin	24.9 yrs	22.8 yrs
224	Congo	24.8 yrs	22.9 yrs
225	Burundi	24.6 yrs	22.3 yrs
226	Mauritania	24.5 yrs	22.1 yrs
227	Mayotte	24.4 yrs	22.3 yrs
228	Mozambique	24.1 yrs	21.4 yrs
229	Côte d'Ivoire	23.9 yrs	22.5 yrs
230	Niger	23.8 yrs	20.9 yrs
231	United Republic of Tanzania	23.6 yrs	21.6 yrs
232	Angola	22.9 yrs	20.7 yrs
233	Mali	22.5 yrs	20.0 yrs
234	Somalia	22.4 yrs	19.9 yrs
235	Democratic Republic of the Congo	22.0 yrs	19.8 yrs
236	Central African Republic	21.9 yrs	18.9 yrs
237	Chad	21.8 yrs	19.5 yrs

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