Field Comparison

Median Age

The age that divides a population into two equal halves

Median age is a useful indicator of a country's age distribution. Countries with a low median age have younger populations (often high birth rates), while those with high median ages have older populations (often lower birth rates and longer life expectancy).

Rank	Country	Total ▼	Male	Female
1.	Monaco	57.5 years	55 years	58.4 years
2.	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	51.8 years	50.5 years	51.9 years
3.	Japan	50.2 years	48.3 years	51.3 years
4.	Andorra	49.4 years	48.7 years	48.8 years
5.	Italy	48.8 years	47.4 years	49.4 years
6.	Saint Barthelemy	47.7 years	47 years	47.8 years
7.	Hong Kong	47.6 years	45.3 years	48.6 years
8.	Spain	47.2 years	45.7 years	47.8 years
9.	South Korea	47.0 years	44 years	47.3 years
10.	Germany	46.9 years	45.5 years	48.3 years
11.	Greece	46.8 years	44.6 years	48.3 years
12.	Portugal	46.8 years	44.3 years	48.3 years
13.	Puerto Rico	46.7 years	44.2 years	47.8 years
14.	San Marino	46.3 years	44.5 years	47.4 years
15.	Cuba	46.2 years	41 years	44.4 years
16.	Slovenia	46.0 years	45 years	47.9 years
17.	Romania	45.8 years	44 years	46.9 years
18.	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45.7 years	43.1 years	46.5 years
19.	Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	45.5 years	44.8 years	45.4 years
20.	Bulgaria	45.5 years	43.3 years	47 years
21.	Taiwan	45.1 years	43.6 years	45.5 years
22.	Guernsey	45.1 years	43.8 years	46.2 years
23.	Hungary	45.1 years	42.8 years	46.7 years
24.	Isle of Man	45.1 years	43.7 years	46.1 years
25.	Croatia	44.9 years	43.2 years	47 years
26.	Ukraine	44.6 years	41.4 years	49.2 years
27.	Austria	44.5 years	43.6 years	46.3 years
28.	Czechia	44.4 years	42.7 years	45.7 years
29.	Liechtenstein	44.4 years	42.4 years	46.1 years
30.	Switzerland	44.4 years	43.5 years	44.9 years
31.	Serbia	44.1 years	42.4 years	45.4 years
32.	Finland	44.0 years	41.8 years	44.9 years
33.	Lithuania	44.0 years	40.9 years	49.2 years
34.	Bermuda	43.9 years	41.5 years	46.3 years
35.	Latvia	43.8 years	41.6 years	49.2 years
36.	Virgin Islands	43.4 years	42.1 years	43.9 years
37.	Poland	43.4 years	41.5 years	44.3 years
38.	Slovakia	43.1 years	41.3 years	44.4 years
39.	Macau	43.0 years	41.5 years	43.1 years
40.	Estonia	42.9 years	41.9 years	48.2 years
41.	Canada	42.8 years	41.4 years	43.8 years
42.	France	42.7 years	41 years	44.2 years
43.	Belarus	42.5 years	39.5 years	45 years
44.	Belgium	42.4 years	40.8 years	43.1 years
45.	Russia	42.3 years	39.4 years	44.5 years
46.	Barbados	42.2 years	40.3 years	42.5 years
47.	Denmark	42.2 years	41 years	43.4 years
48.	Netherlands	42.2 years	40.9 years	43.5 years
49.	Malta	42.1 years	42.4 years	44.7 years
50.	Thailand	41.9 years	40.2 years	42.7 years
51.	Cook Islands	41.5 years	40.7 years	41.4 years
52.	Montenegro	41.5 years	39.5 years	42.5 years
53.	Cayman Islands	41.3 years	40.3 years	42 years
54.	Aruba	41.2 years	39.3 years	42.4 years
55.	Sweden	41.2 years	40.1 years	42.1 years
56.	Norway	41.0 years	40.1 years	41.5 years
57.	North Macedonia	40.9 years	39.4 years	41.6 years
58.	United Kingdom	40.9 years	40.1 years	41.5 years
59.	Sint Maarten	40.8 years	39 years	42.8 years
60.	China	40.8 years	39 years	41.5 years
61.	Ireland	40.5 years	39.7 years	40.6 years
62.	Saint Lucia	40.4 years	38.4 years	40.9 years
63.	Moldova	40.4 years	38.6 years	41.3 years
64.	Luxembourg	40.1 years	39.4 years	40.4 years
65.	Mauritius	40.0 years	38.1 years	41 years
66.	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	40.0 years	—	—
67.	Cyprus	39.9 years	38.2 years	41 years
68.	Singapore	39.8 years	38 years	40.6 years
69.	Armenia	39.5 years	37.6 years	40.3 years
70.	United States	39.5 years	37.8 years	40 years
71.	Seychelles	39.2 years	38.2 years	39.4 years
72.	Saint Kitts and Nevis	39.1 years	38.8 years	38.3 years
73.	Trinidad and Tobago	39.1 years	38 years	39 years
74.	Chile	38.9 years	35.8 years	38.2 years
75.	British Virgin Islands	38.8 years	38.1 years	38.9 years
76.	Georgia	38.6 years	35.9 years	40.6 years
77.	Australia	38.5 years	36.9 years	39.2 years
78.	Jersey	38.5 years	37 years	39.7 years
79.	Iceland	38.2 years	37.4 years	38.6 years
80.	New Zealand	38.1 years	37.2 years	38.6 years
81.	Curacao	38.1 years	35.5 years	40.2 years
82.	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	38.1 years	37.7 years	37.4 years
83.	Christmas Island	38.0 years	—	—
84.	Albania	37.9 years	34.8 years	37.8 years
85.	Anguilla	37.5 years	34.8 years	39 years
86.	Dominica	37.5 years	36.5 years	37.6 years
87.	Uruguay	37.4 years	34.9 years	38.2 years
88.	Montserrat	37.1 years	35.4 years	37.8 years
89.	Gibraltar	37.1 years	36.2 years	37.5 years
90.	Faroe Islands	37.0 years	36.9 years	36.8 years
91.	Wallis and Futuna	36.9 years	35.5 years	37.3 years
92.	Turks and Caicos Islands	36.6 years	36.5 years	36.1 years
93.	North Korea	36.2 years	34.5 years	37.4 years
94.	Costa Rica	36.0 years	34.9 years	36.1 years
95.	Grenada	35.9 years	35.2 years	35.7 years
96.	French Polynesia	35.8 years	35 years	35.6 years
97.	United Arab Emirates	35.8 years	38.1 years	29.8 years
98.	Greenland	35.6 years	35.9 years	34.7 years
99.	Palau	35.5 years	34.1 years	37.4 years
100.	Brazil	35.4 years	34 years	36.1 years
101.	Iran	35.2 years	33.6 years	34.1 years
102.	Azerbaijan	34.8 years	32.8 years	36 years
103.	New Caledonia	34.6 years	33.5 years	35.1 years
104.	Argentina	34.6 years	32.1 years	34.6 years
105.	Qatar	34.4 years	35.7 years	28.1 years
106.	Turkey	34.4 years	33.4 years	34.6 years
107.	Saint Martin	34.3 years	33.4 years	34.9 years
108.	Sri Lanka	34.2 years	32.2 years	35.8 years
109.	Tunisia	34.1 years	33.6 years	35.1 years
110.	Antigua and Barbuda	34.1 years	31.9 years	35.7 years
111.	Vietnam	33.5 years	32 years	34.2 years
112.	Bahrain	33.5 years	34.6 years	31.2 years
113.	Colombia	33.1 years	31.5 years	34 years
114.	Saudi Arabia	32.8 years	34.6 years	29.3 years
115.	Northern Mariana Islands	32.6 years	31.8 years	33.2 years
116.	Brunei	32.6 years	31.4 years	33.1 years
117.	Maldives	32.4 years	31.3 years	32.4 years
118.	Kosovo	32.3 years	31.7 years	32.4 years
119.	Suriname	32.3 years	31 years	32.9 years
120.	Paraguay	32.3 years	31.6 years	32 years
121.	Malaysia	32.2 years	31.7 years	31.9 years
122.	Kazakhstan	32.1 years	30 years	33.8 years
123.	Fiji	32.0 years	31.4 years	31.8 years
124.	Indonesia	31.8 years	30.8 years	32.3 years
125.	Panama	31.7 years	31 years	31.9 years
126.	Turkmenistan	31.6 years	30.7 years	31.7 years
127.	Venezuela	31.3 years	30.3 years	31.7 years
128.	El Salvador	31.2 years	28.2 years	31.2 years
129.	Bhutan	31.2 years	31.1 years	30.3 years
130.	The Bahamas	31.1 years	30.6 years	30.7 years
131.	Burma	31.1 years	29.9 years	31.6 years
132.	Mexico	31.0 years	28.8 years	32.7 years
133.	Morocco	30.9 years	30.1 years	31 years
134.	South Africa	30.7 years	30.1 years	30.6 years
135.	American Samoa	30.6 years	29.4 years	30.6 years
136.	Guam	30.5 years	29.6 years	31.1 years
137.	Kuwait	30.4 years	31.1 years	28.9 years
138.	Peru	30.4 years	29.1 years	31.3 years
139.	Israel	30.2 years	29.6 years	30.7 years
140.	India	30.1 years	29.1 years	30.5 years
141.	The Dominican	29.6 years	29.1 years	29.4 years
142.	Nicaragua	29.5 years	28.1 years	29.9 years
143.	Lebanon	29.4 years	35.6 years	36.9 years
144.	Algeria	29.3 years	28.8 years	29.4 years
145.	Cabo Verde	29.3 years	27.9 years	29.6 years
146.	Uzbekistan	29.2 years	28.1 years	29.8 years
147.	Jamaica	28.8 years	30.1 years	31.7 years
148.	Mongolia	28.8 years	30.1 years	32.8 years
149.	Federated States of Micronesia	28.7 years	27.3 years	29.1 years
150.	Guyana	28.7 years	28.2 years	28.4 years
151.	Kyrgyzstan	28.6 years	26.9 years	29.8 years
152.	Cambodia	28.3 years	26.9 years	28.9 years
153.	Nauru	28.2 years	27.3 years	28.4 years
154.	Ecuador	28.2 years	27 years	28.9 years
155.	Tuvalu	28.1 years	26.8 years	28.8 years
156.	Nepal	28.1 years	26.5 years	28.6 years
157.	Samoa	27.8 years	27 years	27.8 years
158.	Bangladesh	27.8 years	28.7 years	30.4 years
159.	Kiribati	27.7 years	26.4 years	28.2 years
160.	Oman	27.5 years	28.1 years	26.3 years
161.	Belize	27.2 years	26.4 years	27.2 years
162.	Philippines	27.1 years	25.1 years	26.3 years
163.	Bolivia	27.0 years	26.2 years	27 years
164.	Djibouti	26.7 years	24.4 years	27.9 years
165.	Guatemala	26.7 years	24.2 years	25.4 years
166.	Libya	26.4 years	26.3 years	26.2 years
167.	Tonga	26.4 years	25.4 years	26.4 years
168.	Honduras	26.1 years	24.8 years	26.6 years
169.	Marshall Islands	25.9 years	25.4 years	25.6 years
170.	Botswana	25.8 years	26 years	28.3 years
171.	Laos	25.8 years	25 years	25.7 years
172.	Solomon Islands	25.5 years	25 years	25.4 years
173.	Jordan	25.4 years	25.5 years	24.4 years
174.	Haiti	25.3 years	24.7 years	25.3 years
175.	Vanuatu	24.9 years	24.1 years	25 years
176.	Eswatini	24.8 years	23.4 years	25.8 years
177.	Egypt	24.6 years	24.3 years	24.4 years
178.	Syria	24.5 years	23.6 years	24.7 years
179.	Lesotho	24.0 years	23.4 years	24.3 years
180.	Pakistan	23.2 years	22.8 years	23 years
181.	Comoros	23.1 years	22.1 years	23.3 years
182.	Namibia	23.1 years	22.1 years	23.5 years
183.	Timor-Leste	23.0 years	19.8 years	21.3 years
184.	Tajikistan	22.8 years	22.3 years	23.2 years
185.	Iraq	22.7 years	22 years	22.7 years
186.	Equatorial Guinea	22.3 years	22.7 years	21.5 years
187.	Gabon	22.3 years	22.5 years	21.5 years
188.	West Bank	22.0 years	21.6 years	22.1 years
189.	Papua New Guinea	21.9 years	21.6 years	21.9 years
190.	Western Sahara	21.8 years	21.4 years	22.3 years (2020 est.)
191.	Eritrea	21.7 years	20.8 years	21.8 years
192.	Ghana	21.6 years	20.6 years	22.3 years
193.	Kenya	21.5 years	21.1 years	21.4 years
194.	Rwanda	21.3 years	20.1 years	21.5 years
195.	Zimbabwe	21.3 years	20.3 years	22 years
196.	Sao Tome and Principe	21.2 years	20.4 years	21.2 years
197.	Congo (Brazzaville)	20.9 years	20.5 years	20.9 years
198.	Togo	20.9 years	19.9 years	21.4 years
199.	Central African Republic	20.6 years	19.7 years	21.2 years
200.	Ethiopia	20.6 years	20.2 years	20.7 years
201.	The Gambia	20.5 years	19.8 years	20.6 years
202.	Madagascar	20.5 years	21.1 years	21.5 years
203.	Yemen	20.5 years	21.9 years	22.2 years
204.	Liberia	20.1 years	19.8 years	20 years
205.	Côte d'Ivoire	20.0 years	21.2 years	21.2 years
206.	Gaza, Gaza Strip	19.9 years	19.3 years	19.8 years
207.	Sierra Leone	19.7 years	19 years	19.9 years
208.	Guinea	19.5 years	19.2 years	19.6 years
209.	Sudan	19.5 years	19 years	19.6 years
210.	Cameroon	19.4 years	18.6 years	19.2 years
211.	Malawi	19.4 years	20 years	20.6 years
212.	Nigeria	19.4 years	19.1 years	19.6 years
213.	Senegal	19.4 years	18.4 years	20 years
214.	Burkina Faso	19.0 years	17.9 years	19.5 years
215.	Zambia	19.0 years	18.2 years	18.6 years
216.	Tanzania	18.8 years	18.8 years	19.4 years
217.	South Sudan	18.7 years	18.7 years	18.7 years
218.	Mauritania	18.6 years	21.1 years	23.1 years
219.	Guinea-Bissau	18.5 years	17.8 years	18.9 years
220.	Afghanistan	18.4 years	20 years	20.1 years
221.	Burundi	17.6 years	18 years	18.7 years
222.	Mozambique	17.4 years	16.7 years	17.9 years
223.	Benin	17.2 years	16.6 years	17.7 years
224.	Chad	16.9 years	16.3 years	17.2 years
225.	DRC	16.9 years	16.7 years	17 years
226.	Angola	16.6 years	15.8 years	16.8 years
227.	Mali	16.5 years	15.7 years	17.1 years
228.	Uganda	16.4 years	15.5 years	17.1 years
229.	Somalia	15.7 years	19.3 years	18.9 years
230.	Niger	15.3 years	14.9 years	15.6 years

Source: CIA World Factbook (archived data). Median age estimates vary by year; see individual country pages for full details.