Median age in Germany
The median age in Germany is 45.3 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 14.7 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Germany the 8th oldest of 193 countries.
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Germany among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Germany by age. The person in the middle is 45.3. 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 45.3 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 Germany is 81.4 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 36.1 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 Germany?
- 45.3 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Germany are younger than 45.3 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 Germany's population young or old?
- Older than most. Germany is 14.7 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 8th 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 Germany compare to Bosnia and Herzegovina?
- Bosnia and Herzegovina has a median age of 45.3, 0.0 years older than Germany. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 186th and 185th youngest.
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