Median age in Somalia
The median age in Somalia is 15.5 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 15.1 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes Somalia the 191st oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
Somalia among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Somalia by age. The person in the middle is 15.5. 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 15.5 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 Somalia is 58.8 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 43.3 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 Somalia?
- 15.5 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Somalia are younger than 15.5 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 Somalia's population young or old?
- Young. Somalia is 15.1 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 191st 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 Somalia compare to Niger?
- Niger has a median age of 15.4, 0.1 years younger than Somalia. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 3rd and 2nd youngest.
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