Median age in India
The median age in India is 28.4 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 2.2 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes India the 108th oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
India among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in India by age. The person in the middle is 28.4. 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 28.4 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 India is 72.0 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 43.6 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 India?
- 28.4 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in India are younger than 28.4 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 India's population young or old?
- Young. India is 2.2 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 108th 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 India compare to Cabo Verde?
- Cabo Verde has a median age of 28.4, 0.0 years older than India. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 86th and 85th youngest.
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