Median age in Romania
The median age in Romania is 42.9 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 12.3 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Romania the 21st oldest of 193 countries.
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Romania among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Romania by age. The person in the middle is 42.9. 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 42.9 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 Romania is 75.9 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 33.0 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 Romania?
- 42.9 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Romania are younger than 42.9 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 Romania's population young or old?
- Older than most. Romania is 12.3 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 21st 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 Romania compare to Switzerland?
- Switzerland has a median age of 42.7, 0.2 years younger than Romania. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 173rd and 172nd youngest.
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