Median age in Italy
The median age in Italy is 47.8 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 17.2 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Italy the 2nd oldest of 193 countries.
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Italy among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Italy by age. The person in the middle is 47.8. 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 47.8 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 Italy is 83.7 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 35.9 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 Italy?
- 47.8 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Italy are younger than 47.8 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 Italy's population young or old?
- Older than most. Italy is 17.2 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 2nd 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 Italy compare to Hong Kong?
- Hong Kong has a median age of 46.8, 1.0 years younger than Italy. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 192nd and 191st youngest.
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