Median age in Portugal
The median age in Portugal is 46.6 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 16.0 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Portugal the 4th oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
Portugal among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Portugal by age. The person in the middle is 46.6. 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 46.6 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 Portugal is 82.4 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 35.8 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 Portugal?
- 46.6 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Portugal are younger than 46.6 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 Portugal's population young or old?
- Older than most. Portugal is 16.0 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 4th 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 Portugal compare to Greece?
- Greece has a median age of 46.3, 0.3 years younger than Portugal. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 190th and 189th youngest.
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