🇳🇨Median age in New Caledonia

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New Caledonia among its neighbours

In plain language

Line up everyone in New Caledonia by age. The person in the middle is 34.2. 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 34.2 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 New Caledonia is 78.8 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 44.6 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 New Caledonia?

34.2 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in New Caledonia are younger than 34.2 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 New Caledonia's population young or old?

Older than most. New Caledonia is 3.6 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 72nd 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 New Caledonia compare to Seychelles?

Seychelles has a median age of 34.0, 0.2 years younger than New Caledonia. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 122nd and 121st youngest.