Median age in Vietnam
The median age in Vietnam is 32.9 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 2.3 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Vietnam the 81st oldest of 193 countries.
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Vietnam among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Vietnam by age. The person in the middle is 32.9. 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 32.9 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 Vietnam is 74.6 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 41.7 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 Vietnam?
- 32.9 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Vietnam are younger than 32.9 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 Vietnam's population young or old?
- Older than most. Vietnam is 2.3 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 81st 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 Vietnam compare to Tunisia?
- Tunisia has a median age of 32.5, 0.4 years younger than Vietnam. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 113th and 112th youngest.
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