Median age in Sri Lanka
The median age in Sri Lanka is 33.1 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 2.5 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Sri Lanka the 78th oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
Sri Lanka among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Sri Lanka by age. The person in the middle is 33.1. 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 33.1 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 Sri Lanka is 77.5 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 44.4 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 Sri Lanka?
- 33.1 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Sri Lanka are younger than 33.1 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 Sri Lanka's population young or old?
- Older than most. Sri Lanka is 2.5 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 78th 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 Sri Lanka compare to Azerbaijan?
- Azerbaijan has a median age of 33.1, 0.0 years older than Sri Lanka. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 116th and 115th youngest.
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