Median age in Zimbabwe
The median age in Zimbabwe is 18.0 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 12.6 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes Zimbabwe the 174th oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
Zimbabwe among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Zimbabwe by age. The person in the middle is 18.0. 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 18.0 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 Zimbabwe is 62.8 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 44.8 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 Zimbabwe?
- 18.0 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Zimbabwe are younger than 18.0 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 Zimbabwe's population young or old?
- Young. Zimbabwe is 12.6 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 174th 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 Zimbabwe compare to Nigeria?
- Nigeria has a median age of 17.9, 0.1 years younger than Zimbabwe. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 20th and 19th youngest.
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