Median age in Libya
The median age in Libya is 27.5 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 3.1 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes Libya the 113th oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
Libya among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Libya by age. The person in the middle is 27.5. 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 27.5 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 Libya is 69.3 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 41.8 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 Libya?
- 27.5 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Libya are younger than 27.5 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 Libya's population young or old?
- Young. Libya is 3.1 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 113th 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 Libya compare to El Salvador?
- El Salvador has a median age of 27.4, 0.1 years younger than Libya. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 81st and 80th youngest.
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