Median age in Czechia
The median age in Czechia is 43.2 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 12.6 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Czechia the 19th oldest of 193 countries.
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In plain language
Line up everyone in Czechia by age. The person in the middle is 43.2. 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 43.2 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 Czechia is 79.8 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 36.6 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 Czechia?
- 43.2 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Czechia are younger than 43.2 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 Czechia's population young or old?
- Older than most. Czechia is 12.6 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 19th 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 Czechia compare to Finland?
- Finland has a median age of 43.0, 0.2 years younger than Czechia. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 175th and 174th youngest.
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