Median age in Belgium
The median age in Belgium is 41.7 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 11.1 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Belgium the 30th oldest of 193 countries.
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In plain language
Line up everyone in Belgium by age. The person in the middle is 41.7. 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 41.7 is older 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 Belgium is 82.1 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 40.4 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 Belgium?
- 41.7 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Belgium are younger than 41.7 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 Belgium's population young or old?
- Older than most. Belgium is 11.1 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 30th 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 Belgium compare to Netherlands?
- Netherlands has a median age of 41.4, 0.3 years younger than Belgium. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 164th and 163rd youngest.
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