Median age in Iceland
The median age in Iceland is 36.0 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 5.4 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Iceland the 63rd oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
Iceland among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Iceland by age. The person in the middle is 36.0. 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 36.0 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 Iceland is 82.7 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 46.7 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 Iceland?
- 36.0 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Iceland are younger than 36.0 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 Iceland's population young or old?
- Older than most. Iceland is 5.4 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 63rd 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 Iceland compare to Singapore?
- Singapore has a median age of 35.6, 0.4 years younger than Iceland. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 131st and 130th youngest.
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