🇸🇧Median age in Solomon Islands

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Solomon Islands among its neighbours

In plain language

Line up everyone in Solomon Islands by age. The person in the middle is 20.5. 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 20.5 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 Solomon Islands is 70.5 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 50.0 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 Solomon Islands?

20.5 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Solomon Islands are younger than 20.5 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 Solomon Islands's population young or old?

Young. Solomon Islands is 10.1 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 150th 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 Solomon Islands compare to Comoros?

Comoros has a median age of 20.5, 0.0 years older than Solomon Islands. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 44th and 43rd youngest.