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Median Age of the Population, 1968

1968, 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, 1968 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 44.2867; Cook Islands is lowest, at 13.2953. The middle country reads 17.7309. Against 1967, 222 values changed (105 up, 117 down), the same countries are covered.

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Median Age of the Population · Data for 1968

HighestMonaco

44.2867

LowestCook Islands

13.2953

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, 1968, 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, 1968: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
MonacoMCOWestern Europe44.2867
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe41.9488
SwedenSWENorthern Europe34.8214
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe34.2922
BelgiumBELWestern Europe33.6890
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe33.5621
AustriaAUTWestern Europe33.3428
GermanyDEUWestern Europe33.1020
HungaryHUNEastern Europe32.9944
LatviaLVANorthern Europe32.8865
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe32.8300
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe32.4652
NorwayNORNorthern Europe32.4587
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe32.0000
BulgariaBGREastern Europe31.9332
FranceFRAWestern Europe31.6647
ItalyITASouthern Europe31.6387
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe31.4231
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe30.6439
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe30.5592
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe30.5054
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe30.3141
UkraineUKREastern Europe30.3036
RomaniaROUEastern Europe30.2918
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe29.8996

02In 1968

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Monaco44.2867
  2. Isle of Man41.9488
  3. Sweden34.8214
  4. Luxembourg34.2922
  5. Belgium33.6890

Lowest

  1. Cook Islands13.2953
  2. Samoa13.4443
  3. Kenya13.4629
  4. Libya13.8602
  5. Saint Lucia14.0651

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 17.7309. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031967 → 1968

Since 1967

What changed between 1967 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 105 · 117rose · 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 1968.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 4 decimals. 2 countries share 16.6808. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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 (1968). Median Age of the Population, 1968 [data set], describing 1968. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-age/1968

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