🇧🇦Median age in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Bosnia and Herzegovina among its neighbours

In plain language

Line up everyone in Bosnia and Herzegovina by age. The person in the middle is 45.3. 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 45.3 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina is 77.9 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 32.6 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina?

45.3 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Bosnia and Herzegovina are younger than 45.3 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina's population young or old?

Older than most. Bosnia and Herzegovina is 14.7 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 9th 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 Bosnia and Herzegovina compare to South Korea?

South Korea has a median age of 45.0, 0.3 years younger than Bosnia and Herzegovina. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 185th and 184th youngest.