Countries With the Lowest Median Ages

Every country with a figure for median age, ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Central African Republic (14.3), Niger (15.3) and Chad (15.4). The middle country of the 217 has 31.1.

What this measures

Median age of the population, in years. Source: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. For this measure, no agreed better direction.

The age that splits a population in half: half are older and half are younger. The shares aged under 15 and over 65 are already on the site. All three are treated as measuring the same thing. They are readings of the same age pyramid, so they are bound to match, and their agreement is not a finding. No "better" direction is set.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2023–2023. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on median age

• Countries With the Highest Median Ages
• Median age by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Lowest European Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest African Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Indigenous American Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest East Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest South Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Middle Eastern Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Ethnic Diversity
• Countries With the Lowest Age at Childbearing

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.