World ranking · 2026

Median age by country, 2026

Half the people are older than the median age. The world’s is 31.1 in 2026, up from 22.2 in 1950.

Highest

1. Japan50.2
2. Italy48.6
3. Hong Kong47.9
4. Portugal47.2
5. Greece47.1

Lowest

1. Central African Republic14.6
2. Somalia15.6
3. Chad15.7
4. Niger15.7
5. Mali15.9

14 countries have a median age of 45 or more.
35 have a median age under 20, almost all in Africa.

Highest and lowest among countries of a million people or more.

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Half the people are older than the median age. Darker = older population (Japan, Europe); lighter = younger (Africa).

Median age, years

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All 237 countries and areas

Median age by country, 2026
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1	Vatican	56.2	506
2	Monaco	53.1	38,087
3	Saint Helena	51.0	5,148
4	Japan	50.2	122,427,731
5	Martinique	50.2	337,711
6	San Marino	49.1	33,605
7	Italy	48.6	58,926,166
8	Hong Kong	47.9	7,378,602
9	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	47.6	5,513
10	Guadeloupe	47.4	372,453
11	Portugal	47.2	10,395,362
12	Greece	47.1	9,897,116
13	Bermuda	46.4	64,459
14	Spain	46.3	47,850,793
15	Isle of Man	46.3	84,054
16	South Korea	46.2	51,600,388
17	Puerto Rico	46.2	3,222,688
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	46.1	3,114,242
19	Germany	45.7	83,644,258
20	Croatia	45.5	3,822,345
21	Taiwan	45.4	23,011,292
22	Bulgaria	45.0	6,667,660
23	Slovenia	45.0	2,114,574
24	U.S. Virgin Islands	44.9	83,400
25	Serbia	44.7	6,641,964
26	Liechtenstein	44.7	40,368
27	Guernsey	44.5	64,610
28	Czechia	44.3	10,527,780
29	Hungary	44.2	9,585,818
30	Andorra	44.2	83,753
31	Austria	43.9	9,107,266
32	Jersey	43.9	104,106
33	Saint Martin	43.9	23,898
34	Latvia	43.8	1,835,935
35	Romania	43.5	18,800,605
36	Finland	43.4	5,621,739
37	Falkland Islands	43.4	3,465
38	Switzerland	43.2	9,007,798
39	Estonia	43.2	1,331,062
40	Poland	43.0	37,843,188
41	Slovakia	42.8	5,451,342
42	Lithuania	42.6	2,797,338
43	France	42.5	66,746,401
44	Cuba	42.5	10,892,659
45	Belgium	42.1	11,774,642
46	Sint Maarten	42.0	44,447
47	Ukraine	41.8	39,535,848
48	Belarus	41.8	8,937,018
49	Montserrat	41.8	4,328
50	Aruba	41.7	108,164
51	Netherlands	41.5	18,448,775
52	Malta	41.5	549,011
53	North Macedonia	41.4	1,804,062
54	Denmark	41.3	6,023,520
55	Thailand	41.0	71,559,614
56	Canada	40.8	40,467,728
57	Russia	40.7	143,394,458
58	China	40.6	1,412,914,089
59	Sweden	40.4	10,701,046
60	Montenegro	40.4	626,233
61	Macao	40.3	723,188
62	United Kingdom	40.2	69,931,528
63	Norway	40.1	5,652,989
64	Luxembourg	39.7	687,448
65	Barbados	39.7	282,724
66	Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba	39.7	31,913
67	Turks and Caicos Islands	39.6	47,148
68	Ireland	39.2	5,356,950
69	Moldova	39.1	2,961,253
70	Cyprus	39.1	1,382,334
71	Cayman Islands	39.1	77,196
72	British Virgin Islands	39.1	39,936
73	Anguilla	39.1	14,817
74	Saint Barthelemy	39.1	11,550
75	Curacao	39.0	185,440
76	Palau	38.9	17,614
77	Northern Mariana Islands	38.8	42,914
78	Gibraltar	38.8	40,867
79	United States	38.7	349,035,494
80	Wallis and Futuna	38.6	11,113
81	Australia	38.5	27,227,096
82	Reunion	38.4	886,298
83	Mauritius	38.3	1,265,059
84	Trinidad and Tobago	38.2	1,513,268
85	Cook Islands	38.1	12,826
86	New Zealand	38.0	5,287,479
87	Albania	37.8	2,751,025
88	Georgia	37.6	3,804,642
89	Chile	37.4	19,945,850
90	Armenia	37.2	2,930,915
91	Faroe Islands	37.1	56,526
92	North Korea	36.8	26,633,691
93	Singapore	36.8	5,905,748
94	Uruguay	36.7	3,382,537
95	French Polynesia	36.7	283,076
96	Antigua and Barbuda	36.7	94,626
97	Iceland	36.6	402,329
98	Dominica	36.6	65,511
99	Saint Kitts and Nevis	36.5	46,992
100	Costa Rica	35.7	5,174,789
101	Bahamas	35.7	404,628
102	Greenland	35.5	55,629
103	Brazil	35.2	213,562,666
104	Saint Lucia	35.1	180,488
105	Niue	35.1	1,822
106	Grenada	34.9	117,362
107	Kuwait	34.8	5,102,773
108	New Caledonia	34.8	297,892
109	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	34.7	99,244
110	Seychelles	34.6	134,959
111	Iran	34.5	93,168,497
112	Azerbaijan	34.1	10,454,855
113	Vietnam	33.9	102,177,431
114	Turkey	33.9	87,926,082
115	Sri Lanka	33.6	23,348,315
116	Tunisia	33.4	12,415,138
117	Qatar	33.4	3,173,559
118	Bahrain	33.4	1,675,572
119	Maldives	33.4	531,517
120	Argentina	33.3	46,003,734
121	Jamaica	33.3	2,833,404
122	Kosovo	33.2	1,666,992
123	Brunei	33.2	469,775
124	Colombia	33.0	53,936,226
125	Western Sahara	32.8	610,813
126	United Arab Emirates	31.6	11,574,682
127	Guam	31.6	170,185
128	Malaysia	31.4	36,385,115
129	Bhutan	31.0	802,214
130	Indonesia	30.7	287,886,782
131	Panama	30.6	4,625,718
132	Peru	30.5	34,922,148
133	Myanmar	30.4	55,184,819
134	Morocco	30.1	38,762,441
135	Mexico	30.0	132,997,658
136	Oman	29.8	5,671,458
137	Saudi Arabia	29.7	35,165,787
138	Kazakhstan	29.7	21,083,626
139	Ecuador	29.7	18,444,506
140	Venezuela	29.5	28,633,711
141	Cabo Verde	29.5	529,630
142	Israel	29.3	9,647,689
143	India	29.2	1,476,625,576
144	American Samoa	29.1	45,318
145	Lebanon	29.0	5,897,467
146	South Africa	28.9	65,453,084
147	Suriname	28.9	645,256
148	Algeria	28.8	48,028,334
149	Dominican Republic	28.7	11,609,500
150	El Salvador	28.4	6,391,254
151	Fiji	28.3	937,282
152	Libya	28.0	7,539,852
153	Tokelau	27.6	2,691
154	Turkmenistan	27.3	7,736,632
155	Paraguay	27.3	7,095,279
156	Belize	27.3	428,644
157	Uzbekistan	27.0	37,724,223
158	Mongolia	27.0	3,556,798
159	Philippines	26.6	117,724,472
160	Guyana	26.5	840,890
161	Cambodia	26.4	18,051,219
162	Bangladesh	26.3	177,818,044
163	Nicaragua	26.3	7,097,329
164	Nepal	25.7	29,629,410
165	Bolivia	25.5	12,749,291
166	Kyrgyzstan	25.5	7,400,464
167	Laos	25.3	7,974,018
168	Djibouti	25.2	1,199,459
169	Jordan	24.9	11,589,532
170	French Guiana	24.9	318,872
171	Egypt	24.7	120,101,175
172	Honduras	24.6	11,184,760
173	Haiti	24.3	12,037,506
174	Tuvalu	24.1	9,362
175	Syria	23.8	26,472,497
176	Guatemala	23.8	18,967,978
177	Botswana	23.7	2,603,388
178	Micronesia	23.5	114,182
179	Papua New Guinea	23.0	10,947,848
180	Kiribati	23.0	138,445
181	Eswatini	22.7	1,269,859
182	Tajikistan	22.4	10,978,598
183	Lesotho	22.1	2,389,336
184	Timor Leste	22.1	1,436,923
185	Ghana	21.6	35,697,557
186	Gabon	21.6	2,647,400
187	Namibia	21.5	3,153,246
188	Iraq	21.1	48,007,437
189	Tonga	21.0	103,291
190	Equatorial Guinea	20.9	1,984,468
191	Solomon Islands	20.9	858,288
192	Pakistan	20.8	259,299,792
193	Comoros	20.7	899,010
194	Marshall Islands	20.5	35,075
195	Kenya	20.3	58,636,412
196	Palestine	20.3	5,692,790
197	Vanuatu	20.3	342,564
198	Rwanda	20.2	14,889,693
199	Nauru	20.2	12,101
200	Sierra Leone	19.9	8,996,744
201	Senegal	19.8	19,366,548
202	Samoa	19.8	220,528
203	Sao Tome and Principe	19.7	244,994
204	Guinea-Bissau	19.6	2,297,808
205	Eritrea	19.5	3,682,669
206	Madagascar	19.4	33,522,052
207	Ethiopia	19.3	138,902,185
208	Togo	19.2	9,930,918
209	South Sudan	19.0	12,436,037
210	Liberia	19.0	5,853,949
211	Sudan	18.8	53,282,719
212	Gambia	18.8	2,884,079
213	Congo	18.7	6,637,786
214	Yemen	18.5	42,961,653
215	Côte d'Ivoire	18.5	33,494,346
216	Guinea	18.5	15,441,992
217	Malawi	18.4	22,785,535
218	Nigeria	18.3	242,431,832
219	Zimbabwe	18.3	17,273,580
220	Cameroon	18.2	30,640,817
221	Zambia	18.2	22,521,915
222	Benin	18.2	15,170,420
223	Burkina Faso	18.0	24,601,700
224	Tanzania	17.6	72,563,780
225	Mauritania	17.5	5,461,319
226	Afghanistan	17.4	45,047,068
227	Mayotte	17.3	347,536
228	Uganda	17.1	52,761,470
229	Angola	16.7	40,215,180
230	Mozambique	16.6	36,639,850
231	Burundi	16.6	14,729,157
232	DR Congo	15.9	116,452,162
233	Mali	15.9	25,932,275
234	Niger	15.7	28,814,878
235	Chad	15.7	21,560,380
236	Somalia	15.6	20,305,907
237	Central African Republic	14.6	5,698,984

Questions

Which country has the oldest population?

Japan, with a median age of 50.2 in 2026, then Italy (48.6), Hong Kong (47.9), Portugal (47.2).

Which country has the youngest population?

Central African Republic, with a median age of 14.6, then Somalia (15.6), Chad (15.7), Niger (15.7).

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United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant. 2026 figures are the medium-variant projection. Method