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Median Age of the Population, 1971

1971, 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, 1971 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 43.7298; Kenya is lowest, at 13.2717. The middle country reads 17.6234. Against 1970, 222 values changed (130 up, 92 down), the same countries are covered.

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Median Age of the Population · Data for 1971

HighestMonaco

43.7298

LowestKenya

13.2717

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, 1971, 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, 1971: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
MonacoMCOWestern Europe43.7298
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe40.9381
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe34.2583
SwedenSWENorthern Europe34.2577
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe33.9710
BelgiumBELWestern Europe33.4023
GermanyDEUWestern Europe33.3867
LatviaLVANorthern Europe33.3241
HungaryHUNEastern Europe33.1921
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe33.1047
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe32.8204
AustriaAUTWestern Europe32.4006
BulgariaBGREastern Europe32.3947
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe32.3256
ItalyITASouthern Europe32.0738
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe31.9875
UkraineUKREastern Europe31.6963
NorwayNORNorthern Europe31.6202
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe31.4818
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe31.4109
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe31.3337
FranceFRAWestern Europe31.2716
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe31.1205
RomaniaROUEastern Europe30.5112
RussiaRUSEastern Europe30.1177

02In 1971

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Monaco43.7298
  2. Isle of Man40.9381
  3. Luxembourg34.2583
  4. Sweden34.2577
  5. Vatican City33.9710

Lowest

  1. Kenya13.2717
  2. Cook Islands13.3883
  3. Samoa13.6017
  4. Libya13.6302
  5. Jordan13.8074

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 17.6234. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031970 → 1971

Since 1970

What changed between 1970 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 130 · 92rose · 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 1971.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

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 (1971). Median Age of the Population, 1971 [data set], describing 1971. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-age/1971

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