Median age in Botswana
The median age in Botswana is 23.2 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 7.4 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes Botswana the 134th oldest of 193 countries.
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In plain language
Line up everyone in Botswana by age. The person in the middle is 23.2. 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 23.2 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 Botswana is 69.2 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 46.0 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 Botswana?
- 23.2 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Botswana are younger than 23.2 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 Botswana's population young or old?
- Young. Botswana is 7.4 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 134th 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 Botswana compare to Micronesia?
- Micronesia has a median age of 23.1, 0.1 years younger than Botswana. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 60th and 59th youngest.
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