World Median age ranking 2026 | China Population Atlas

Source: United Nations World Population Prospects 2024, medium variant.

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Rank	Country or area	Median age	Total population	Share of world population	Data type
1	Holy See	56.2	506 people	0.00%	Projection
2	Monaco	53.1	38,087 people	0.00%	Projection
3	Saint Helena	51.0	5,148 people	0.00%	Projection
4	Japan	50.2	122,427,731 people	1.47%	Projection
5	Martinique	50.2	337,711 people	0.00%	Projection
6	San Marino	49.1	33,605 people	0.00%	Projection
7	Italy	48.6	58,926,166 people	0.71%	Projection
8	China, Hong Kong SAR	47.9	7,378,602 people	0.09%	Projection
9	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	47.6	5,513 people	0.00%	Projection
10	Guadeloupe	47.4	372,453 people	0.00%	Projection
11	Portugal	47.2	10,395,362 people	0.13%	Projection
12	Greece	47.1	9,897,116 people	0.12%	Projection
13	Bermuda	46.4	64,459 people	0.00%	Projection
14	Spain	46.3	47,850,793 people	0.58%	Projection
15	Isle of Man	46.3	84,054 people	0.00%	Projection
16	Republic of Korea	46.2	51,600,388 people	0.62%	Projection
17	Puerto Rico	46.2	3,222,688 people	0.04%	Projection
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	46.1	3,114,242 people	0.04%	Projection
19	Germany	45.7	83,644,258 people	1.01%	Projection
20	Croatia	45.5	3,822,345 people	0.05%	Projection
21	China, Taiwan Province of China	45.4	23,011,292 people	0.28%	Projection
22	Slovenia	45.0	2,114,574 people	0.03%	Projection
23	Bulgaria	45.0	6,667,660 people	0.08%	Projection
24	United States Virgin Islands	44.9	83,400 people	0.00%	Projection
25	Liechtenstein	44.7	40,368 people	0.00%	Projection
26	Serbia	44.7	6,641,964 people	0.08%	Projection
27	Guernsey	44.5	64,610 people	0.00%	Projection
28	Czechia	44.3	10,527,780 people	0.13%	Projection
29	Andorra	44.2	83,753 people	0.00%	Projection
30	Hungary	44.2	9,585,818 people	0.12%	Projection
31	Austria	43.9	9,107,266 people	0.11%	Projection
32	Jersey	43.9	104,106 people	0.00%	Projection
33	Saint Martin (French part)	43.9	23,898 people	0.00%	Projection
34	Latvia	43.8	1,835,935 people	0.02%	Projection
35	Romania	43.5	18,800,605 people	0.23%	Projection
36	Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	43.4	3,465 people	0.00%	Projection
37	Finland	43.4	5,621,739 people	0.07%	Projection
38	Estonia	43.2	1,331,062 people	0.02%	Projection
39	Switzerland	43.2	9,007,798 people	0.11%	Projection
40	Poland	43.0	37,843,188 people	0.46%	Projection
41	Slovakia	42.8	5,451,342 people	0.07%	Projection
42	Lithuania	42.6	2,797,338 people	0.03%	Projection
43	Cuba	42.5	10,892,659 people	0.13%	Projection
44	France	42.5	66,746,401 people	0.80%	Projection
45	Belgium	42.1	11,774,642 people	0.14%	Projection
46	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	42.0	44,447 people	0.00%	Projection
47	Montserrat	41.8	4,328 people	0.00%	Projection
48	Ukraine	41.8	39,535,848 people	0.48%	Projection
49	Belarus	41.8	8,937,018 people	0.11%	Projection
50	Aruba	41.7	108,164 people	0.00%	Projection
51	Netherlands	41.5	18,448,775 people	0.22%	Projection
52	Malta	41.5	549,011 people	0.01%	Projection
53	North Macedonia	41.4	1,804,062 people	0.02%	Projection
54	Denmark	41.3	6,023,520 people	0.07%	Projection
55	Thailand	41.0	71,559,614 people	0.86%	Projection
56	Canada	40.8	40,467,728 people	0.49%	Projection
57	Russian Federation	40.7	143,394,458 people	1.73%	Projection
58	China View China data	40.6	1,412,914,089 people	17.02%	Projection
59	Sweden	40.4	10,701,046 people	0.13%	Projection
60	Montenegro	40.4	626,233 people	0.01%	Projection
61	China, Macao SAR	40.3	723,188 people	0.01%	Projection
62	United Kingdom	40.2	69,931,528 people	0.84%	Projection
63	Norway	40.1	5,652,989 people	0.07%	Projection
64	Luxembourg	39.7	687,448 people	0.01%	Projection
65	Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	39.7	31,913 people	0.00%	Projection
66	Barbados	39.7	282,724 people	0.00%	Projection
67	Turks and Caicos Islands	39.6	47,148 people	0.00%	Projection
68	Ireland	39.2	5,356,950 people	0.06%	Projection
69	British Virgin Islands	39.1	39,936 people	0.00%	Projection
70	Anguilla	39.1	14,817 people	0.00%	Projection
71	Republic of Moldova	39.1	2,961,253 people	0.04%	Projection
72	Cyprus	39.1	1,382,334 people	0.02%	Projection
73	Saint Barthélemy	39.1	11,550 people	0.00%	Projection
74	Cayman Islands	39.1	77,196 people	0.00%	Projection
75	Curaçao	39.0	185,440 people	0.00%	Projection
76	Palau	38.9	17,614 people	0.00%	Projection
77	Gibraltar	38.8	40,867 people	0.00%	Projection
78	Northern Mariana Islands	38.8	42,914 people	0.00%	Projection
79	United States of America	38.7	349,035,494 people	4.20%	Projection
80	Wallis and Futuna Islands	38.6	11,113 people	0.00%	Projection
81	Australia	38.5	27,227,096 people	0.33%	Projection
82	Réunion	38.4	886,298 people	0.01%	Projection
83	Mauritius	38.3	1,265,059 people	0.02%	Projection
84	Trinidad and Tobago	38.2	1,513,268 people	0.02%	Projection
85	Cook Islands	38.1	12,826 people	0.00%	Projection
86	New Zealand	38.0	5,287,479 people	0.06%	Projection
87	Albania	37.8	2,751,025 people	0.03%	Projection
88	Georgia	37.6	3,804,642 people	0.05%	Projection
89	Chile	37.4	19,945,850 people	0.24%	Projection
90	Armenia	37.2	2,930,915 people	0.04%	Projection
91	Faroe Islands	37.1	56,526 people	0.00%	Projection
92	Dem. People's Republic of Korea	36.8	26,633,691 people	0.32%	Projection
93	Singapore	36.8	5,905,748 people	0.07%	Projection
94	Uruguay	36.7	3,382,537 people	0.04%	Projection
95	Antigua and Barbuda	36.7	94,626 people	0.00%	Projection
96	French Polynesia	36.7	283,076 people	0.00%	Projection
97	Dominica	36.6	65,511 people	0.00%	Projection
98	Iceland	36.6	402,329 people	0.00%	Projection
99	Saint Kitts and Nevis	36.5	46,992 people	0.00%	Projection
100	Costa Rica	35.7	5,174,789 people	0.06%	Projection
101	Bahamas	35.7	404,628 people	0.00%	Projection
102	Greenland	35.5	55,629 people	0.00%	Projection
103	Brazil	35.3	213,562,666 people	2.57%	Projection
104	Saint Lucia	35.1	180,488 people	0.00%	Projection
105	Niue	35.1	1,822 people	0.00%	Projection
106	Grenada	34.9	117,362 people	0.00%	Projection
107	New Caledonia	34.8	297,892 people	0.00%	Projection
108	Kuwait	34.8	5,102,773 people	0.06%	Projection
109	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	34.7	99,244 people	0.00%	Projection
110	Seychelles	34.6	134,959 people	0.00%	Projection
111	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	34.5	93,168,497 people	1.12%	Projection
112	Azerbaijan	34.1	10,454,855 people	0.13%	Projection
113	Türkiye	33.9	87,926,082 people	1.06%	Projection
114	Viet Nam	33.9	102,177,431 people	1.23%	Projection
115	Sri Lanka	33.6	23,348,315 people	0.28%	Projection
116	Bahrain	33.4	1,675,572 people	0.02%	Projection
117	Maldives	33.4	531,517 people	0.01%	Projection
118	Qatar	33.4	3,173,559 people	0.04%	Projection
119	Tunisia	33.4	12,415,138 people	0.15%	Projection
120	Argentina	33.3	46,003,734 people	0.55%	Projection
121	Jamaica	33.3	2,833,404 people	0.03%	Projection
122	Kosovo (under UNSC res. 1244)	33.2	1,666,992 people	0.02%	Projection
123	Brunei Darussalam	33.2	469,775 people	0.01%	Projection
124	Colombia	33.0	53,936,226 people	0.65%	Projection
125	Western Sahara	32.8	610,813 people	0.01%	Projection
126	Guam	31.6	170,185 people	0.00%	Projection
127	United Arab Emirates	31.6	11,574,682 people	0.14%	Projection
128	Malaysia	31.4	36,385,115 people	0.44%	Projection
129	Bhutan	31.0	802,214 people	0.01%	Projection
130	Indonesia	30.7	287,886,782 people	3.47%	Projection
131	Panama	30.6	4,625,718 people	0.06%	Projection
132	Peru	30.6	34,922,148 people	0.42%	Projection
133	Myanmar	30.4	55,184,819 people	0.66%	Projection
134	Morocco	30.1	38,762,441 people	0.47%	Projection
135	Mexico	30.0	132,997,658 people	1.60%	Projection
136	Oman	29.8	5,671,458 people	0.07%	Projection
137	Kazakhstan	29.7	21,083,626 people	0.25%	Projection
138	Ecuador	29.7	18,444,506 people	0.22%	Projection
139	Saudi Arabia	29.7	35,165,787 people	0.42%	Projection
140	Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	29.5	28,633,711 people	0.34%	Projection
141	Cabo Verde	29.5	529,630 people	0.01%	Projection
142	Israel	29.3	9,647,689 people	0.12%	Projection
143	India	29.2	1,476,625,576 people	17.79%	Projection
144	American Samoa	29.1	45,318 people	0.00%	Projection
145	Lebanon	29.0	5,897,467 people	0.07%	Projection
146	South Africa	28.9	65,453,084 people	0.79%	Projection
147	Suriname	28.9	645,256 people	0.01%	Projection
148	Algeria	28.8	48,028,334 people	0.58%	Projection
149	Dominican Republic	28.7	11,609,500 people	0.14%	Projection
150	El Salvador	28.4	6,391,254 people	0.08%	Projection
151	Fiji	28.3	937,282 people	0.01%	Projection
152	Libya	28.0	7,539,852 people	0.09%	Projection
153	Tokelau	27.6	2,691 people	0.00%	Projection
154	Belize	27.3	428,644 people	0.01%	Projection
155	Paraguay	27.3	7,095,279 people	0.09%	Projection
156	Turkmenistan	27.3	7,736,632 people	0.09%	Projection
157	Uzbekistan	27.0	37,724,223 people	0.45%	Projection
158	Mongolia	27.0	3,556,798 people	0.04%	Projection
159	Philippines	26.6	117,724,472 people	1.42%	Projection
160	Guyana	26.5	840,890 people	0.01%	Projection
161	Cambodia	26.4	18,051,219 people	0.22%	Projection
162	Nicaragua	26.3	7,097,329 people	0.09%	Projection
163	Bangladesh	26.3	177,818,044 people	2.14%	Projection
164	Nepal	25.7	29,629,410 people	0.36%	Projection
165	Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	25.5	12,749,291 people	0.15%	Projection
166	Kyrgyzstan	25.5	7,400,464 people	0.09%	Projection
167	Lao People's Democratic Republic	25.3	7,974,018 people	0.10%	Projection
168	Djibouti	25.2	1,199,459 people	0.01%	Projection
169	French Guiana	24.9	318,872 people	0.00%	Projection
170	Jordan	24.9	11,589,532 people	0.14%	Projection
171	Egypt	24.7	120,101,175 people	1.45%	Projection
172	Honduras	24.6	11,184,760 people	0.13%	Projection
173	Haiti	24.3	12,037,506 people	0.15%	Projection
174	Tuvalu	24.1	9,362 people	0.00%	Projection
175	Guatemala	23.8	18,967,978 people	0.23%	Projection
176	Syrian Arab Republic	23.8	26,472,497 people	0.32%	Projection
177	Botswana	23.7	2,603,388 people	0.03%	Projection
178	Micronesia (Fed. States of)	23.5	114,182 people	0.00%	Projection
179	Kiribati	23.0	138,445 people	0.00%	Projection
180	Papua New Guinea	23.0	10,947,848 people	0.13%	Projection
181	Eswatini	22.7	1,269,859 people	0.02%	Projection
182	Tajikistan	22.4	10,978,598 people	0.13%	Projection
183	Timor-Leste	22.1	1,436,923 people	0.02%	Projection
184	Lesotho	22.1	2,389,336 people	0.03%	Projection
185	Ghana	21.6	35,697,557 people	0.43%	Projection
186	Gabon	21.6	2,647,400 people	0.03%	Projection
187	Namibia	21.5	3,153,246 people	0.04%	Projection
188	Iraq	21.1	48,007,437 people	0.58%	Projection
189	Tonga	21.0	103,291 people	0.00%	Projection
190	Solomon Islands	20.9	858,288 people	0.01%	Projection
191	Equatorial Guinea	20.9	1,984,468 people	0.02%	Projection
192	Pakistan	20.8	259,299,792 people	3.12%	Projection
193	Comoros	20.7	899,010 people	0.01%	Projection
194	Marshall Islands	20.5	35,075 people	0.00%	Projection
195	Vanuatu	20.3	342,564 people	0.00%	Projection
196	Kenya	20.3	58,636,412 people	0.71%	Projection
197	State of Palestine	20.3	5,692,790 people	0.07%	Projection
198	Rwanda	20.2	14,889,693 people	0.18%	Projection
199	Nauru	20.2	12,101 people	0.00%	Projection
200	Sierra Leone	19.9	8,996,744 people	0.11%	Projection
201	Senegal	19.8	19,366,548 people	0.23%	Projection
202	Samoa	19.8	220,528 people	0.00%	Projection
203	Sao Tome and Principe	19.7	244,994 people	0.00%	Projection
204	Guinea-Bissau	19.6	2,297,808 people	0.03%	Projection
205	Eritrea	19.5	3,682,669 people	0.04%	Projection
206	Madagascar	19.4	33,522,052 people	0.40%	Projection
207	Ethiopia	19.3	138,902,185 people	1.67%	Projection
208	Togo	19.2	9,930,918 people	0.12%	Projection
209	South Sudan	19.0	12,436,037 people	0.15%	Projection
210	Liberia	19.0	5,853,949 people	0.07%	Projection
211	Gambia	18.8	2,884,079 people	0.03%	Projection
212	Sudan	18.8	53,282,719 people	0.64%	Projection
213	Congo	18.7	6,637,786 people	0.08%	Projection
214	Côte d'Ivoire	18.5	33,494,346 people	0.40%	Projection
215	Guinea	18.5	15,441,992 people	0.19%	Projection
216	Yemen	18.5	42,961,653 people	0.52%	Projection
217	Malawi	18.4	22,785,535 people	0.27%	Projection
218	Nigeria	18.3	242,431,832 people	2.92%	Projection
219	Zimbabwe	18.3	17,273,580 people	0.21%	Projection
220	Cameroon	18.2	30,640,817 people	0.37%	Projection
221	Benin	18.2	15,170,420 people	0.18%	Projection
222	Zambia	18.2	22,521,915 people	0.27%	Projection
223	Burkina Faso	18.0	24,601,700 people	0.30%	Projection
224	United Republic of Tanzania	17.6	72,563,780 people	0.87%	Projection
225	Mauritania	17.5	5,461,319 people	0.07%	Projection
226	Afghanistan	17.4	45,047,068 people	0.54%	Projection
227	Mayotte	17.3	347,536 people	0.00%	Projection
228	Uganda	17.1	52,761,470 people	0.64%	Projection
229	Angola	16.7	40,215,180 people	0.48%	Projection
230	Burundi	16.6	14,729,157 people	0.18%	Projection
231	Mozambique	16.6	36,639,850 people	0.44%	Projection
232	Mali	15.9	25,932,275 people	0.31%	Projection
233	Democratic Republic of the Congo	15.9	116,452,162 people	1.40%	Projection
234	Chad	15.7	21,560,380 people	0.26%	Projection
235	Niger	15.7	28,814,878 people	0.35%	Projection
236	Somalia	15.6	20,305,907 people	0.24%	Projection
237	Central African Republic	14.6	5,698,984 people	0.07%	Projection

Estimates cover 1950–2023; 2024 and later are UN medium-variant projections. Rankings use the latest available value for the selected year. The world total is the sum of all countries and areas in the dataset.

China's detailed profile follows this site's original China dataset. World rankings use UN WPP 2024 figures for cross-country comparability.