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Median Age of the Population, 1958

1958, 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, 1958 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 44.5680; Northern Mariana Islands is lowest, at 13.7800. The middle country reads 18.6541. Against 1957, 222 values changed (84 up, 138 down), the same countries are covered.

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Median Age of the Population · Data for 1958

HighestMonaco

44.5680

LowestNorthern Mariana Islands

13.7800

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, 1958, 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, 1958: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
MonacoMCOWestern Europe44.5680
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe41.3607
SwedenSWENorthern Europe34.7438
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe34.4832
AustriaAUTWestern Europe34.4670
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe34.0925
GermanyDEUWestern Europe33.8548
BelgiumBELWestern Europe33.8230
NorwayNORNorthern Europe33.1699
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe31.9253
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe31.7364
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe31.7312
FranceFRAWestern Europe31.7123
GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe31.4361
HungaryHUNEastern Europe30.6612
LatviaLVANorthern Europe30.3266
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe30.2223
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe30.1133
ItalyITASouthern Europe30.0324
IrelandIRLNorthern Europe29.3253
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand28.9005
BulgariaBGREastern Europe28.8343
AndorraANDSouthern Europe28.7687
United StatesUSANorthern America28.6561
UkraineUKREastern Europe28.1483

02In 1958

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Monaco44.5680
  2. Isle of Man41.3607
  3. Sweden34.7438
  4. United Kingdom34.4832
  5. Austria34.4670

Lowest

  1. Northern Mariana Islands13.7800
  2. Samoa14.1910
  3. Niger14.3221
  4. American Samoa14.4846
  5. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines14.7243

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 18.6541. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031957 → 1958

Since 1957

What changed between 1957 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 84 · 138rose · 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 1958.

  • 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.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1958). Median Age of the Population, 1958 [data set], describing 1958. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-age/1958

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