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Median Age of the Population, 1988

1988, 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, 1988 covers 222 countries. Vatican City is highest, at 45.0000; Marshall Islands is lowest, at 13.6554. The middle country reads 20.2674. Against 1987, 222 values changed (180 up, 42 down), the same countries are covered.

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Median Age of the Population · Data for 1988

HighestVatican City

45.0000

LowestMarshall Islands

13.6554

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, 1988, 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, 1988: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe45.0000
MonacoMCOWestern Europe42.6600
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe38.2566
SwedenSWENorthern Europe37.3101
GermanyDEUWestern Europe36.5598
JapanJPNEastern Asia35.9582
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe35.7438
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe35.6946
ItalyITASouthern Europe35.4980
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe35.1970
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe35.0695
BulgariaBGREastern Europe34.9697
BelgiumBELWestern Europe34.8317
FinlandFINNorthern Europe34.8244
HungaryHUNEastern Europe34.7591
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe34.6639
AustriaAUTWestern Europe34.5435
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe34.4106
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe34.1120
NorwayNORNorthern Europe34.0693
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe33.9560
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe33.8142
LatviaLVANorthern Europe33.5293
GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe33.4814
FranceFRAWestern Europe33.2229

02In 1988

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Vatican City45.0000
  2. Monaco42.6600
  3. Isle of Man38.2566
  4. Sweden37.3101
  5. Germany36.5598

Lowest

  1. Marshall Islands13.6554
  2. Yemen13.6779
  3. Kenya14.1182
  4. Palestine14.3327
  5. Rwanda14.5136

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 20.2674. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031987 → 1988

Since 1987

What changed between 1987 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 180 · 42rose · 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 1988.

  • 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 (1988). Median Age of the Population, 1988 [data set], describing 1988. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-age/1988

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