Median age by country, 2078

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

◀▶2078

#	Country / area	Median age	2068
1	China, Hong Kong SAR	70.8 yrs	69.8 yrs
2	Puerto Rico	66.6 yrs	62.8 yrs
3	Republic of Korea	62.7 yrs	61.3 yrs
4	China, Macao SAR	62.4 yrs	61.4 yrs
5	China	60.7 yrs	57.1 yrs
6	Andorra	59.7 yrs	59.2 yrs
7	China, Taiwan Province of China	59.5 yrs	58.5 yrs
8	Albania	59.0 yrs	56.4 yrs
9	Ukraine	58.0 yrs	55.6 yrs
10	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	57.6 yrs	55.2 yrs
11	Singapore	57.5 yrs	58.5 yrs
12	Chile	57.3 yrs	54.7 yrs
13	Saint Barthélemy	57.1 yrs	52.7 yrs
14	Malta	56.5 yrs	55.7 yrs
15	French Polynesia	56.2 yrs	54.3 yrs
16	Costa Rica	55.6 yrs	53.3 yrs
17	Mauritius	55.5 yrs	54.8 yrs
18	Lithuania	55.4 yrs	53.1 yrs
19	Poland	55.2 yrs	54.1 yrs
20	Anguilla	54.4 yrs	54.0 yrs
21	Bermuda	54.3 yrs	53.8 yrs
22	Cuba	53.8 yrs	52.5 yrs
23	Jamaica	53.8 yrs	52.5 yrs
24	Bosnia and Herzegovina	53.4 yrs	53.5 yrs
25	Belarus	53.2 yrs	51.9 yrs
26	North Macedonia	53.2 yrs	51.4 yrs
27	Italy	53.1 yrs	53.4 yrs
28	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	53.0 yrs	51.5 yrs
29	Japan	53.0 yrs	53.6 yrs
30	Uruguay	52.7 yrs	51.2 yrs
31	Curaçao	52.6 yrs	51.9 yrs
32	Wallis and Futuna Islands	52.5 yrs	51.4 yrs
33	Latvia	52.5 yrs	51.1 yrs
34	Türkiye	52.3 yrs	50.3 yrs
35	Maldives	52.3 yrs	53.0 yrs
36	Cabo Verde	52.0 yrs	49.7 yrs
37	Thailand	52.0 yrs	51.8 yrs
38	Grenada	51.8 yrs	50.3 yrs
39	Spain	51.8 yrs	52.7 yrs
40	British Virgin Islands	51.8 yrs	52.5 yrs
41	Estonia	51.5 yrs	50.9 yrs
42	Croatia	51.5 yrs	51.1 yrs
43	Greece	51.3 yrs	51.5 yrs
44	Isle of Man	51.1 yrs	50.9 yrs
45	Antigua and Barbuda	50.6 yrs	49.4 yrs
46	Slovakia	50.6 yrs	50.1 yrs
47	Colombia	50.5 yrs	48.5 yrs
48	Iceland	50.4 yrs	48.8 yrs
49	Serbia	50.4 yrs	49.6 yrs
50	Saint Lucia	50.4 yrs	49.3 yrs
51	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	50.3 yrs	49.3 yrs
52	Cyprus	50.3 yrs	49.3 yrs
53	Saint Helena	50.2 yrs	50.6 yrs
54	Montenegro	50.1 yrs	48.7 yrs
55	San Marino	49.7 yrs	50.9 yrs
56	Finland	49.7 yrs	49.6 yrs
57	Argentina	49.6 yrs	48.7 yrs
58	Turks and Caicos Islands	49.6 yrs	48.6 yrs
59	Austria	49.5 yrs	49.1 yrs
60	Guernsey	49.5 yrs	49.8 yrs
61	Trinidad and Tobago	49.5 yrs	48.8 yrs
62	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	49.4 yrs	48.5 yrs
63	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	49.3 yrs	49.7 yrs
64	Brazil	49.1 yrs	48.0 yrs
65	Armenia	48.8 yrs	48.2 yrs
66	Bhutan	48.7 yrs	48.0 yrs
67	Montserrat	48.6 yrs	47.9 yrs
68	Norway	48.5 yrs	48.1 yrs
69	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	48.4 yrs	47.1 yrs
70	Tunisia	48.0 yrs	46.7 yrs
71	Barbados	48.0 yrs	46.8 yrs
72	Bulgaria	48.0 yrs	48.0 yrs
73	Romania	48.0 yrs	47.7 yrs
74	Luxembourg	48.0 yrs	47.2 yrs
75	Saint Kitts and Nevis	47.9 yrs	46.9 yrs
76	Slovenia	47.8 yrs	48.3 yrs
77	Belgium	47.8 yrs	47.7 yrs
78	Aruba	47.7 yrs	47.3 yrs
79	Netherlands	47.7 yrs	46.8 yrs
80	Switzerland	47.7 yrs	47.6 yrs
81	El Salvador	47.6 yrs	45.3 yrs
82	Sweden	47.6 yrs	47.3 yrs
83	Martinique	47.6 yrs	47.5 yrs
84	Ecuador	47.4 yrs	45.5 yrs
85	Ireland	47.2 yrs	47.0 yrs
86	Germany	47.2 yrs	47.0 yrs
87	Gibraltar	46.9 yrs	45.4 yrs
88	Canada	46.8 yrs	46.4 yrs
89	Liechtenstein	46.8 yrs	46.2 yrs
90	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	46.8 yrs	45.2 yrs
91	Belize	46.7 yrs	43.8 yrs
92	Guadeloupe	46.6 yrs	46.4 yrs
93	Jersey	46.6 yrs	47.0 yrs
94	Czechia	46.6 yrs	47.4 yrs
95	Denmark	46.6 yrs	45.9 yrs
96	Sri Lanka	46.4 yrs	44.7 yrs
97	United Kingdom	46.3 yrs	45.8 yrs
98	Portugal	46.3 yrs	47.1 yrs
99	Cayman Islands	46.2 yrs	45.6 yrs
100	Dominica	46.2 yrs	45.4 yrs
101	New Zealand	46.2 yrs	45.3 yrs
102	Viet Nam	46.2 yrs	45.3 yrs
103	Mexico	46.2 yrs	44.1 yrs
104	Peru	46.1 yrs	44.0 yrs
105	Bahamas	45.9 yrs	45.4 yrs
106	Hungary	45.8 yrs	45.9 yrs
107	Malaysia	45.8 yrs	44.9 yrs
108	Georgia	45.5 yrs	45.1 yrs
109	Réunion	45.5 yrs	44.5 yrs
110	Holy See	45.3 yrs	44.1 yrs
111	France	45.2 yrs	45.3 yrs
112	India	45.1 yrs	43.2 yrs
113	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	45.1 yrs	44.4 yrs
114	Brunei Darussalam	45.1 yrs	44.4 yrs
115	Bangladesh	44.9 yrs	41.7 yrs
116	Republic of Moldova	44.9 yrs	45.4 yrs
117	New Caledonia	44.8 yrs	43.5 yrs
118	Panama	44.8 yrs	42.9 yrs
119	Morocco	44.4 yrs	42.5 yrs
120	Faroe Islands	44.3 yrs	42.9 yrs
121	United States Virgin Islands	44.3 yrs	43.1 yrs
122	Azerbaijan	44.0 yrs	43.8 yrs
123	United States of America	44.0 yrs	43.6 yrs
124	Seychelles	44.0 yrs	43.4 yrs
125	Australia	43.9 yrs	43.5 yrs
126	Nepal	43.9 yrs	41.2 yrs
127	Lebanon	43.2 yrs	41.1 yrs
128	Greenland	43.0 yrs	42.5 yrs
129	Dominican Republic	43.0 yrs	41.0 yrs
130	Nicaragua	43.0 yrs	40.6 yrs
131	Russian Federation	43.0 yrs	44.1 yrs
132	Philippines	42.8 yrs	41.1 yrs
133	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	42.8 yrs	40.5 yrs
134	Palau	42.7 yrs	42.6 yrs
135	Libya	42.5 yrs	40.9 yrs
136	Northern Mariana Islands	42.4 yrs	42.5 yrs
137	Cook Islands	42.3 yrs	44.6 yrs
138	Suriname	42.0 yrs	39.9 yrs
139	Indonesia	41.9 yrs	40.4 yrs
140	Algeria	41.7 yrs	40.5 yrs
141	Guatemala	41.3 yrs	38.7 yrs
142	Tokelau	41.3 yrs	38.5 yrs
143	Monaco	41.3 yrs	40.7 yrs
144	Myanmar	41.1 yrs	39.7 yrs
145	Lao People's Democratic Republic	40.9 yrs	38.6 yrs
146	American Samoa	40.5 yrs	39.5 yrs
147	Guam	40.4 yrs	38.6 yrs
148	Syrian Arab Republic	40.3 yrs	36.8 yrs
149	Paraguay	40.3 yrs	38.3 yrs
150	Honduras	39.9 yrs	37.5 yrs
151	Western Sahara	39.9 yrs	39.0 yrs
152	Timor-Leste	39.8 yrs	37.1 yrs
153	Guyana	39.4 yrs	37.2 yrs
154	Turkmenistan	39.1 yrs	37.7 yrs
155	Jordan	39.0 yrs	36.6 yrs
156	Fiji	38.8 yrs	37.0 yrs
157	Cambodia	38.6 yrs	36.8 yrs
158	Saint Martin (French part)	38.6 yrs	41.1 yrs
159	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	37.8 yrs	35.9 yrs
160	Botswana	37.5 yrs	35.6 yrs
161	Mongolia	37.2 yrs	35.6 yrs
162	Egypt	37.1 yrs	34.8 yrs
163	Niue	37.1 yrs	34.7 yrs
164	State of Palestine	36.9 yrs	33.7 yrs
165	Haiti	36.7 yrs	35.0 yrs
166	Israel	36.6 yrs	34.9 yrs
167	Kyrgyzstan	36.6 yrs	34.4 yrs
168	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	36.6 yrs	34.1 yrs
169	Eswatini	36.4 yrs	34.2 yrs
170	Djibouti	36.1 yrs	34.3 yrs
171	Bahrain	36.1 yrs	35.8 yrs
172	South Africa	36.0 yrs	35.0 yrs
173	Kazakhstan	35.9 yrs	34.2 yrs
174	Kuwait	35.9 yrs	35.7 yrs
175	Marshall Islands	35.2 yrs	31.1 yrs
176	Tajikistan	35.0 yrs	32.1 yrs
177	Lesotho	35.0 yrs	32.9 yrs
178	Iraq	34.7 yrs	32.2 yrs
179	Saudi Arabia	34.7 yrs	33.9 yrs
180	Tonga	34.6 yrs	31.2 yrs
181	Namibia	34.3 yrs	32.1 yrs
182	French Guiana	34.2 yrs	32.1 yrs
183	Gambia	34.1 yrs	31.5 yrs
184	Oman	34.0 yrs	33.4 yrs
185	Papua New Guinea	33.7 yrs	32.0 yrs
186	Uzbekistan	33.6 yrs	31.8 yrs
187	United Arab Emirates	33.5 yrs	33.0 yrs
188	Uganda	33.5 yrs	30.2 yrs
189	Sierra Leone	33.4 yrs	31.1 yrs
190	Kenya	33.3 yrs	30.9 yrs
191	Solomon Islands	33.1 yrs	30.6 yrs
192	Eritrea	33.0 yrs	30.2 yrs
193	Kiribati	33.0 yrs	31.1 yrs
194	Tuvalu	33.0 yrs	30.7 yrs
195	Rwanda	33.0 yrs	30.4 yrs
196	Ghana	32.8 yrs	30.7 yrs
197	Qatar	32.8 yrs	32.5 yrs
198	Pakistan	32.8 yrs	30.4 yrs
199	Senegal	32.5 yrs	30.2 yrs
200	Guinea-Bissau	32.4 yrs	30.2 yrs
201	Sao Tome and Principe	32.2 yrs	29.5 yrs
202	Burkina Faso	32.0 yrs	29.6 yrs
203	Malawi	31.8 yrs	29.4 yrs
204	South Sudan	31.8 yrs	29.6 yrs
205	Comoros	31.7 yrs	29.3 yrs
206	Ethiopia	31.6 yrs	29.1 yrs
207	Yemen	31.4 yrs	28.8 yrs
208	Liberia	31.3 yrs	29.1 yrs
209	Guinea	31.2 yrs	28.9 yrs
210	Vanuatu	31.2 yrs	28.9 yrs
211	Nauru	30.8 yrs	28.7 yrs
212	Gabon	30.7 yrs	28.7 yrs
213	Sudan	30.7 yrs	28.4 yrs
214	Samoa	30.6 yrs	27.6 yrs
215	Zimbabwe	30.6 yrs	28.0 yrs
216	Nigeria	30.6 yrs	28.3 yrs
217	Equatorial Guinea	30.2 yrs	27.9 yrs
218	Madagascar	30.1 yrs	28.0 yrs
219	Afghanistan	30.0 yrs	27.6 yrs
220	Zambia	29.9 yrs	27.7 yrs
221	Burundi	29.5 yrs	27.0 yrs
222	Cameroon	29.3 yrs	27.0 yrs
223	Mauritania	29.3 yrs	26.7 yrs
224	Niger	29.1 yrs	26.3 yrs
225	Mozambique	29.1 yrs	26.5 yrs
226	Mayotte	29.0 yrs	26.5 yrs
227	Benin	28.9 yrs	26.8 yrs
228	Congo	28.8 yrs	26.7 yrs
229	Togo	28.4 yrs	26.5 yrs
230	United Republic of Tanzania	27.6 yrs	25.5 yrs
231	Mali	27.5 yrs	24.9 yrs
232	Somalia	27.4 yrs	24.8 yrs
233	Angola	27.3 yrs	25.0 yrs
234	Côte d'Ivoire	27.2 yrs	25.4 yrs
235	Central African Republic	27.2 yrs	24.4 yrs
236	Democratic Republic of the Congo	26.6 yrs	24.1 yrs
237	Chad	26.5 yrs	24.0 yrs

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