Median age in Bangladesh
The median age in Bangladesh is 25.7 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 4.9 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes Bangladesh the 123rd oldest of 193 countries.
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Bangladesh among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Bangladesh by age. The person in the middle is 25.7. That is the median: it says nothing about how old the oldest are or how many babies were born last year, only where the midpoint falls.
A median of 25.7 is younger than the world's 30.6. For scale, the youngest country here, Central African Republic, has a median of 14.4 and the oldest, Japan, 49.4. Life expectancy at birth in Bangladesh is 74.7 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 49.0 years ahead of them.
The 2024figure is the UN's medium-variant number; its estimates end in 2023. For a year this close the projection barely differs from an estimate, since everyone counted has already been born.
Questions
- What is the median age in Bangladesh?
- 25.7 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Bangladesh are younger than 25.7 and half are older. The median is not the average age; it is the midpoint, so a handful of very old people do not move it.
- Is Bangladesh's population young or old?
- Young. Bangladesh is 4.9 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 123rd oldest of the 193 countries here. The youngest country, Central African Republic, has a median of 14.4; the oldest, Japan, 49.4.
- How does Bangladesh compare to Nicaragua?
- Nicaragua has a median age of 25.6, 0.1 years younger than Bangladesh. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 71st and 70th youngest.
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