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Median age in Comoros

The median age in Comoros is 20.5 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 10.1 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes Comoros the 151st oldest of 193 countries.

Key numbers

Median age
20.5 yrs
2024
vs world
-10.1 yrs
world 30.6
Oldest rank
151 of 193
1 = oldest
Youngest rank
43 of 193
1 = youngest
Life expectancy
66.8 yrs
at birth, 2023

Comoros among its neighbours

Ranking neighbours (three on each side) plus every Africa country in our data, youngest first
#CountryMedian agevs worldRegion
1Central African Republic14.4-16.2Africa
2Niger15.4-15.2Africa
3Somalia15.5-15.1Africa
4Mali15.6-15.0Africa
5Chad15.7-14.9Africa
6DR Congo15.8-14.8Africa
7Burundi16.1-14.5Africa
8Mozambique16.4-14.2Africa
9Angola16.5-14.1Africa
10Uganda16.7-13.9Africa
12Mauritania17.3-13.3Africa
13Tanzania17.4-13.2Africa
14Burkina Faso17.5-13.1Africa
15Zambia17.7-12.9Africa
16Malawi17.8-12.8Africa
17Benin17.9-12.7Africa
18Cameroon17.9-12.7Africa
19Nigeria17.9-12.7Africa
20Zimbabwe18.0-12.6Africa
21Guinea18.1-12.5Africa
22Cรดte d'Ivoire18.2-12.4Africa
23Togo18.2-12.4Africa
24South Sudan18.3-12.3Africa
26Republic of the Congo18.4-12.2Africa
27Gambia18.4-12.2Africa
28Sudan18.4-12.2Africa
29Liberia18.6-12.0Africa
30Eritrea18.9-11.7Africa
31Ethiopia18.9-11.7Africa
32Madagascar19.0-11.6Africa
33Guinea-Bissau19.2-11.4Africa
34Sao Tome and Principe19.3-11.3Africa
35Senegal19.4-11.2Africa
36Sierra Leone19.5-11.1Africa
37Rwanda19.7-10.9Africa
38Kenya19.8-10.8Africa
40Palestine19.9-10.7Asia
41Vanuatu20.2-10.4Oceania
42Pakistan20.4-10.2Asia
43Comoros20.5-10.1Africa
44Solomon Islands20.5-10.1Oceania
45Iraq20.6-10.0Asia
46Tonga20.7-9.9Oceania
47Equatorial Guinea20.9-9.7Africa
48Ghana21.1-9.5Africa
49Namibia21.1-9.5Africa
51Gabon21.5-9.1Africa
52Lesotho21.6-9.0Africa
54Eswatini22.2-8.4Africa
60Botswana23.2-7.4Africa
63Egypt24.3-6.3Africa
66Djibouti24.7-5.9Africa
81Libya27.5-3.1Africa
84Algeria28.4-2.2Africa
85Cabo Verde28.4-2.2Africa
88South Africa28.5-2.1Africa
94Morocco29.5-1.1Africa
112Tunisia32.5+1.9Africa
121Seychelles34.0+3.4Africa
139Mauritius37.4+6.8Africa

In plain language

Line up everyone in Comoros by age. The person in the middle is 20.5. 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 20.5 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 Comoros is 66.8 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 46.3 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 Comoros?
20.5 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Comoros are younger than 20.5 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 Comoros's population young or old?
Young. Comoros is 10.1 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 151st 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 Comoros compare to Pakistan?
Pakistan has a median age of 20.4, 0.1 years younger than Comoros. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 43rd and 42nd youngest.

Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024, median age in 2024 (medium variant), via Our World in Data (fetched 2026-10-26).

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