Median age in Sweden
The median age in Sweden is 40.1 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 9.5 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Sweden the 39th oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
Sweden among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Sweden by age. The person in the middle is 40.1. 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 40.1 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 Sweden is 83.3 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 43.2 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 Sweden?
- 40.1 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Sweden are younger than 40.1 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 Sweden's population young or old?
- Older than most. Sweden is 9.5 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 39th 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 Sweden compare to United Kingdom?
- United Kingdom has a median age of 40.0, 0.1 years younger than Sweden. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 155th and 154th youngest.
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