Median age in South Sudan
The median age in South Sudan is 18.3 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 12.3 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes South Sudan the 170th oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
South Sudan among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in South Sudan by age. The person in the middle is 18.3. 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 18.3 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 South Sudan is 57.6 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 39.3 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 South Sudan?
- 18.3 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in South Sudan are younger than 18.3 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 South Sudan's population young or old?
- Young. South Sudan is 12.3 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 170th 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 South Sudan compare to Togo?
- Togo has a median age of 18.2, 0.1 years younger than South Sudan. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 24th and 23rd youngest.
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