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Median Age of the Population, 1954

1954, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The median age is the age that splits a country's population into two equal halves: half the people are younger, half older. It is the simplest single summary of whether a population is young or old, and it shapes almost everything from school places to pensions.

Median Age of the Population, 1954 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 43.8583; Niger is lowest, at 14.1713. The middle country reads 18.7627. Against 1953, 222 values changed (93 up, 129 down), the same countries are covered.

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Median Age of the Population · Data for 1954

HighestMonaco

43.8583

LowestNiger

14.1713

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Median Age of the Population, 1954, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Median Age of the Population, 1954: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
MonacoMCOWestern Europe43.8583
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe39.3364
AustriaAUTWestern Europe34.0574
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe34.0093
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe33.8855
SwedenSWENorthern Europe33.8202
BelgiumBELWestern Europe33.4589
GermanyDEUWestern Europe32.9292
NorwayNORNorthern Europe32.4286
AndorraANDSouthern Europe32.2055
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe31.9186
FranceFRAWestern Europe31.7173
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe31.2965
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe31.0904
GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe30.8332
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe30.5548
HungaryHUNEastern Europe29.7378
LatviaLVANorthern Europe29.4141
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand29.2155
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe29.1231
United StatesUSANorthern America29.0179
ItalyITASouthern Europe28.8804
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe28.7995
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe27.9377
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand27.8965

02In 1954

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Monaco43.8583
  2. Isle of Man39.3364
  3. Austria34.0574
  4. Luxembourg34.0093
  5. United Kingdom33.8855

Lowest

  1. Niger14.1713
  2. Samoa14.4456
  3. Grenada15.0810
  4. American Samoa15.1094
  5. Philippines15.2561

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 18.7627. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031953 → 1954

Since 1953

What changed between 1953 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 93 · 129rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1954.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1954). Median Age of the Population, 1954 [data set], describing 1954. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-age/1954

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