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Median Age of the Population, 2019

2019, 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, 2019 covers 222 countries. Vatican City is highest, at 60.2917; Central African Republic is lowest, at 14.3677. The middle country reads 30.0220. Against 2018, 222 values changed (208 up, 14 down), the same countries are covered.

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Median Age of the Population · Data for 2019

HighestVatican City

60.2917

LowestCentral African Republic

14.3677

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, 2019, 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, 2019: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe60.2917
MonacoMCOWestern Europe54.6420
JapanJPNEastern Asia47.2624
ItalyITASouthern Europe45.9983
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe45.3324
GermanyDEUWestern Europe44.9036
Isle of ManIMNNorthern Europe44.8312
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe44.6038
United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean44.1373
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe44.0046
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe43.9517
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia43.8124
Puerto RicoPRICaribbean43.7459
BermudaBMUNorthern America43.7438
BulgariaBGREastern Europe43.6278
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe43.3856
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe43.2918
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe43.1663
LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe43.1401
SpainESPSouthern Europe43.1384
SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe42.9734
LatviaLVANorthern Europe42.6387
AustriaAUTWestern Europe42.4327
South KoreaKOREastern Asia42.1839
HungaryHUNEastern Europe42.1176

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Vatican City60.2917
  2. Monaco54.6420
  3. Japan47.2624
  4. Italy45.9983
  5. San Marino45.3324

Lowest

  1. Central African Republic14.3677
  2. Niger14.6989
  3. Chad14.8132
  4. Mali15.0212
  5. Burundi15.1943

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 30.0220. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 208 · 14rose · 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 2019.

  • 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 (2019). Median Age of the Population, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/median-age/2019

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