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Median Age of the Population, 1992

1992, 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, 1992 covers 222 countries. Vatican City is highest, at 48.0275; Yemen is lowest, at 13.4948. The middle country reads 21.0824. Against 1991, 222 values changed (187 up, 35 down), the same countries are covered.

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Median Age of the Population · Data for 1992

HighestVatican City

48.0275

LowestYemen

13.4948

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, 1992, 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, 1992: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe48.0275
MonacoMCOWestern Europe43.3490
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe38.2272
JapanJPNEastern Asia37.7645
SwedenSWENorthern Europe37.3665
ItalyITASouthern Europe36.8460
GermanyDEUWestern Europe36.7260
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe36.5614
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe36.3910
BulgariaBGREastern Europe36.3608
FinlandFINNorthern Europe36.0023
HungaryHUNEastern Europe35.9696
SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe35.8328
BelgiumBELWestern Europe35.6903
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe35.4538
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe35.4391
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe35.4220
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe35.4208
GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe35.1514
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe35.1312
CzechiaCZEEastern Europe34.6772
NorwayNORNorthern Europe34.6514
AustriaAUTWestern Europe34.6248
FranceFRAWestern Europe34.2873
LatviaLVANorthern Europe34.2200

02In 1992

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Vatican City48.0275
  2. Monaco43.3490
  3. Isle of Man38.2272
  4. Japan37.7645
  5. Sweden37.3665

Lowest

  1. Yemen13.4948
  2. Marshall Islands14.3830
  3. Palestine14.4013
  4. Burundi14.4867
  5. Kenya14.5381

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 21.0824. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031991 → 1992

Since 1991

What changed between 1991 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 187 · 35rose · 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 1992.

  • 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 (1992). Median Age of the Population, 1992 [data set], describing 1992. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-age/1992

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