Median age by country, 2072

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

◀▶2072

#	Country / area	Median age	2062
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	70.6 yrs	67.5 yrs
2	Puerto Rico	64.5 yrs	60.1 yrs
3	Republic of Korea	61.8 yrs	60.6 yrs
4	China, Macao SAR	61.4 yrs	60.8 yrs
5	Andorra	59.7 yrs	58.1 yrs
6	China, Taiwan Province of China	58.7 yrs	58.4 yrs
7	China	58.5 yrs	55.2 yrs
8	Singapore	58.0 yrs	57.0 yrs
9	Albania	57.6 yrs	55.1 yrs
10	Ukraine	56.9 yrs	53.8 yrs
11	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	56.6 yrs	53.0 yrs
12	Malta	56.1 yrs	55.0 yrs
13	Chile	55.9 yrs	52.8 yrs
14	French Polynesia	55.4 yrs	52.2 yrs
15	Mauritius	55.1 yrs	53.6 yrs
16	Poland	54.7 yrs	52.9 yrs
17	Costa Rica	54.5 yrs	51.3 yrs
18	Saint Barthélemy	54.5 yrs	50.0 yrs
19	Anguilla	54.3 yrs	52.0 yrs
20	Lithuania	54.2 yrs	51.9 yrs
21	Bermuda	54.1 yrs	53.2 yrs
22	Japan	53.6 yrs	53.3 yrs
23	Italy	53.5 yrs	53.1 yrs
24	Bosnia and Herzegovina	53.4 yrs	53.1 yrs
25	Maldives	53.3 yrs	51.3 yrs
26	Cuba	53.2 yrs	51.4 yrs
27	Jamaica	53.1 yrs	50.9 yrs
28	Belarus	53.1 yrs	49.8 yrs
29	Wallis and Futuna Islands	52.8 yrs	48.9 yrs
30	Curaçao	52.6 yrs	50.0 yrs
31	Spain	52.6 yrs	52.3 yrs
32	British Virgin Islands	52.5 yrs	52.0 yrs
33	North Macedonia	52.4 yrs	49.8 yrs
34	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	52.2 yrs	49.3 yrs
35	Uruguay	52.1 yrs	49.1 yrs
36	Thailand	52.1 yrs	50.9 yrs
37	Latvia	52.1 yrs	49.5 yrs
38	Estonia	51.6 yrs	49.8 yrs
39	Greece	51.6 yrs	50.8 yrs
40	Cabo Verde	51.4 yrs	46.8 yrs
41	Türkiye	51.4 yrs	48.3 yrs
42	Croatia	51.3 yrs	50.5 yrs
43	Grenada	51.0 yrs	48.5 yrs
44	Isle of Man	51.0 yrs	50.1 yrs
45	Slovakia	50.6 yrs	49.5 yrs
46	Saint Helena	50.6 yrs	49.4 yrs
47	San Marino	50.5 yrs	50.8 yrs
48	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	50.0 yrs	47.2 yrs
49	Serbia	50.0 yrs	49.1 yrs
50	Antigua and Barbuda	49.8 yrs	48.7 yrs
51	Cyprus	49.8 yrs	48.7 yrs
52	Saint Lucia	49.8 yrs	48.5 yrs
53	Finland	49.8 yrs	48.6 yrs
54	Guernsey	49.6 yrs	49.3 yrs
55	Iceland	49.5 yrs	47.8 yrs
56	Austria	49.5 yrs	48.7 yrs
57	Colombia	49.4 yrs	47.3 yrs
58	Montenegro	49.4 yrs	47.4 yrs
59	Argentina	49.3 yrs	46.5 yrs
60	Trinidad and Tobago	49.2 yrs	47.9 yrs
61	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	49.2 yrs	49.9 yrs
62	Turks and Caicos Islands	49.0 yrs	48.1 yrs
63	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	48.9 yrs	48.0 yrs
64	Montserrat	48.9 yrs	47.1 yrs
65	Armenia	48.6 yrs	47.0 yrs
66	Brazil	48.5 yrs	46.7 yrs
67	Norway	48.4 yrs	47.5 yrs
68	Slovenia	48.3 yrs	48.0 yrs
69	Bhutan	48.3 yrs	46.8 yrs
70	Bulgaria	48.0 yrs	47.9 yrs
71	Belgium	48.0 yrs	47.0 yrs
72	Romania	47.9 yrs	47.2 yrs
73	Switzerland	47.8 yrs	47.4 yrs
74	Sweden	47.7 yrs	46.3 yrs
75	Aruba	47.5 yrs	46.5 yrs
76	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	47.5 yrs	46.5 yrs
77	Tunisia	47.5 yrs	44.7 yrs
78	Luxembourg	47.5 yrs	46.7 yrs
79	Saint Kitts and Nevis	47.4 yrs	45.9 yrs
80	Czechia	47.4 yrs	46.8 yrs
81	Barbados	47.3 yrs	46.1 yrs
82	Martinique	47.3 yrs	47.7 yrs
83	Ireland	47.2 yrs	46.1 yrs
84	Netherlands	47.2 yrs	46.5 yrs
85	Germany	47.2 yrs	46.6 yrs
86	Jersey	46.8 yrs	46.9 yrs
87	Portugal	46.7 yrs	47.9 yrs
88	Canada	46.6 yrs	46.0 yrs
89	Liechtenstein	46.4 yrs	46.2 yrs
90	Ecuador	46.3 yrs	43.8 yrs
91	El Salvador	46.3 yrs	43.5 yrs
92	Guadeloupe	46.3 yrs	46.6 yrs
93	United Kingdom	46.1 yrs	45.0 yrs
94	Denmark	46.1 yrs	45.3 yrs
95	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	46.0 yrs	44.0 yrs
96	Cayman Islands	45.9 yrs	45.3 yrs
97	Gibraltar	45.9 yrs	45.0 yrs
98	Hungary	45.9 yrs	45.6 yrs
99	Dominica	45.8 yrs	44.6 yrs
100	New Zealand	45.8 yrs	44.6 yrs
101	Viet Nam	45.8 yrs	44.1 yrs
102	Bahamas	45.6 yrs	45.0 yrs
103	Georgia	45.5 yrs	43.8 yrs
104	Sri Lanka	45.4 yrs	43.4 yrs
105	Republic of Moldova	45.4 yrs	44.1 yrs
106	Malaysia	45.3 yrs	43.9 yrs
107	France	45.2 yrs	45.0 yrs
108	Belize	45.0 yrs	42.2 yrs
109	Mexico	45.0 yrs	42.5 yrs
110	Réunion	45.0 yrs	43.8 yrs
111	Peru	44.9 yrs	42.6 yrs
112	Brunei Darussalam	44.8 yrs	43.5 yrs
113	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	44.7 yrs	43.5 yrs
114	Holy See	44.3 yrs	42.7 yrs
115	New Caledonia	44.1 yrs	42.6 yrs
116	India	44.0 yrs	41.8 yrs
117	Azerbaijan	43.8 yrs	43.1 yrs
118	United States of America	43.8 yrs	43.3 yrs
119	Australia	43.7 yrs	43.1 yrs
120	Seychelles	43.7 yrs	42.9 yrs
121	Panama	43.7 yrs	41.7 yrs
122	Russian Federation	43.7 yrs	43.8 yrs
123	Cook Islands	43.6 yrs	43.1 yrs
124	United States Virgin Islands	43.5 yrs	42.5 yrs
125	Faroe Islands	43.4 yrs	42.1 yrs
126	Morocco	43.3 yrs	41.0 yrs
127	Bangladesh	43.1 yrs	39.5 yrs
128	Greenland	42.9 yrs	41.3 yrs
129	Palau	42.5 yrs	42.5 yrs
130	Nepal	42.4 yrs	39.3 yrs
131	Northern Mariana Islands	42.2 yrs	42.0 yrs
132	Dominican Republic	41.9 yrs	39.6 yrs
133	Lebanon	41.9 yrs	39.9 yrs
134	Philippines	41.8 yrs	40.1 yrs
135	Nicaragua	41.6 yrs	38.9 yrs
136	Libya	41.5 yrs	39.8 yrs
137	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	41.4 yrs	39.6 yrs
138	Algeria	41.1 yrs	38.9 yrs
139	Indonesia	41.0 yrs	39.4 yrs
140	Monaco	40.9 yrs	40.7 yrs
141	Suriname	40.8 yrs	38.6 yrs
142	Myanmar	40.3 yrs	38.7 yrs
143	Saint Martin (French part)	40.0 yrs	40.2 yrs
144	Guatemala	39.8 yrs	37.0 yrs
145	American Samoa	39.7 yrs	39.2 yrs
146	Tokelau	39.6 yrs	36.8 yrs
147	Lao People's Democratic Republic	39.5 yrs	36.9 yrs
148	Western Sahara	39.4 yrs	38.4 yrs
149	Guam	39.3 yrs	37.3 yrs
150	Paraguay	39.2 yrs	36.9 yrs
151	Honduras	38.6 yrs	35.9 yrs
152	Syrian Arab Republic	38.3 yrs	34.7 yrs
153	Turkmenistan	38.2 yrs	36.5 yrs
154	Guyana	38.1 yrs	35.7 yrs
155	Timor-Leste	38.1 yrs	35.3 yrs
156	Fiji	37.7 yrs	35.9 yrs
157	Cambodia	37.5 yrs	35.5 yrs
158	Jordan	37.5 yrs	35.4 yrs
159	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	36.7 yrs	34.7 yrs
160	Botswana	36.5 yrs	34.0 yrs
161	Mongolia	36.1 yrs	35.0 yrs
162	Bahrain	35.9 yrs	35.5 yrs
163	Kuwait	35.8 yrs	35.8 yrs
164	Haiti	35.8 yrs	33.9 yrs
165	Egypt	35.7 yrs	33.6 yrs
166	Niue	35.6 yrs	33.7 yrs
167	Israel	35.5 yrs	34.1 yrs
168	South Africa	35.4 yrs	34.2 yrs
169	Kyrgyzstan	35.2 yrs	33.3 yrs
170	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	35.2 yrs	32.5 yrs
171	Eswatini	35.1 yrs	32.7 yrs
172	Djibouti	35.1 yrs	33.2 yrs
173	State of Palestine	35.0 yrs	31.9 yrs
174	Kazakhstan	34.8 yrs	33.4 yrs
175	Saudi Arabia	34.2 yrs	33.3 yrs
176	Lesotho	33.8 yrs	31.6 yrs
177	Oman	33.6 yrs	32.8 yrs
178	United Arab Emirates	33.3 yrs	32.8 yrs
179	Iraq	33.2 yrs	30.7 yrs
180	Tajikistan	33.2 yrs	30.8 yrs
181	Namibia	33.0 yrs	30.8 yrs
182	French Guiana	32.9 yrs	30.9 yrs
183	Papua New Guinea	32.7 yrs	30.9 yrs
184	Qatar	32.6 yrs	32.3 yrs
185	Gambia	32.6 yrs	29.8 yrs
186	Marshall Islands	32.6 yrs	29.3 yrs
187	Uzbekistan	32.5 yrs	30.9 yrs
188	Tonga	32.5 yrs	29.4 yrs
189	Sierra Leone	32.1 yrs	29.6 yrs
190	Kiribati	31.9 yrs	30.0 yrs
191	Kenya	31.9 yrs	29.3 yrs
192	Solomon Islands	31.6 yrs	29.2 yrs
193	Tuvalu	31.6 yrs	29.8 yrs
194	Uganda	31.5 yrs	28.2 yrs
195	Ghana	31.5 yrs	29.4 yrs
196	Eritrea	31.4 yrs	28.4 yrs
197	Pakistan	31.4 yrs	29.0 yrs
198	Rwanda	31.4 yrs	28.8 yrs
199	Guinea-Bissau	31.1 yrs	28.8 yrs
200	Senegal	31.1 yrs	28.7 yrs
201	Sao Tome and Principe	30.6 yrs	27.9 yrs
202	Burkina Faso	30.6 yrs	28.0 yrs
203	South Sudan	30.5 yrs	28.0 yrs
204	Malawi	30.4 yrs	27.8 yrs
205	Comoros	30.3 yrs	28.0 yrs
206	Ethiopia	30.1 yrs	27.7 yrs
207	Liberia	30.0 yrs	27.6 yrs
208	Yemen	29.8 yrs	27.3 yrs
209	Guinea	29.8 yrs	27.4 yrs
210	Vanuatu	29.8 yrs	27.6 yrs
211	Gabon	29.5 yrs	27.6 yrs
212	Nauru	29.5 yrs	27.5 yrs
213	Sudan	29.3 yrs	27.0 yrs
214	Nigeria	29.2 yrs	26.8 yrs
215	Zimbabwe	29.0 yrs	26.5 yrs
216	Madagascar	28.9 yrs	26.8 yrs
217	Samoa	28.8 yrs	25.9 yrs
218	Equatorial Guinea	28.8 yrs	26.7 yrs
219	Afghanistan	28.6 yrs	26.1 yrs
220	Zambia	28.6 yrs	26.4 yrs
221	Burundi	28.0 yrs	25.4 yrs
222	Cameroon	27.9 yrs	25.7 yrs
223	Mauritania	27.8 yrs	25.2 yrs
224	Benin	27.7 yrs	25.5 yrs
225	Congo	27.5 yrs	25.4 yrs
226	Mayotte	27.5 yrs	25.1 yrs
227	Mozambique	27.5 yrs	24.9 yrs
228	Niger	27.4 yrs	24.6 yrs
229	Togo	27.3 yrs	25.4 yrs
230	United Republic of Tanzania	26.3 yrs	24.2 yrs
231	Côte d'Ivoire	26.1 yrs	24.4 yrs
232	Angola	25.9 yrs	23.6 yrs
233	Mali	25.9 yrs	23.3 yrs
234	Somalia	25.8 yrs	23.2 yrs
235	Central African Republic	25.5 yrs	22.8 yrs
236	Democratic Republic of the Congo	25.1 yrs	22.7 yrs
237	Chad	24.9 yrs	22.5 yrs

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