Median age in Malaysia
The median age in Malaysia is 30.5 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is about the world median of 30.6, and makes Malaysia the 91st oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
Malaysia among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Malaysia by age. The person in the middle is 30.5. 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 30.5 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 Malaysia is 76.7 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 46.2 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 Malaysia?
- 30.5 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Malaysia are younger than 30.5 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 Malaysia's population young or old?
- About average. Malaysia sits at the world median of 30.6, and ranks 91st 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 Malaysia compare to Indonesia?
- Indonesia has a median age of 30.1, 0.4 years younger than Malaysia. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 103rd and 102nd youngest.
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