🇲🇰Median age in North Macedonia

Key numbers

North Macedonia among its neighbours

In plain language

Line up everyone in North Macedonia by age. The person in the middle is 40.6. 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 40.6 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 North Macedonia is 77.4 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 36.8 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 North Macedonia?

40.6 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in North Macedonia are younger than 40.6 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 North Macedonia's population young or old?

Older than most. North Macedonia is 10.0 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 36th 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 North Macedonia compare to Canada?

Canada has a median age of 40.5, 0.1 years younger than North Macedonia. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 158th and 157th youngest.