🇬🇶Median age in Equatorial Guinea

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Equatorial Guinea among its neighbours

In plain language

Line up everyone in Equatorial Guinea by age. The person in the middle is 20.9. 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 20.9 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 Equatorial Guinea is 63.7 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 42.8 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 Equatorial Guinea?

20.9 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Equatorial Guinea are younger than 20.9 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 Equatorial Guinea's population young or old?

Young. Equatorial Guinea is 9.7 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 147th 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 Equatorial Guinea compare to Tonga?

Tonga has a median age of 20.7, 0.2 years younger than Equatorial Guinea. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 47th and 46th youngest.