Median age in Iraq
The median age in Iraq is 20.6 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 10.0 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes Iraq the 149th oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
Iraq among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Iraq by age. The person in the middle is 20.6. 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 20.6 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 Iraq is 72.3 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 51.7 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 Iraq?
- 20.6 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Iraq are younger than 20.6 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 Iraq's population young or old?
- Young. Iraq is 10.0 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 149th 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 Iraq compare to Solomon Islands?
- Solomon Islands has a median age of 20.5, 0.1 years younger than Iraq. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 45th and 44th youngest.
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