🇨🇫Median age in Central African Republic

Key numbers

Central African Republic among its neighbours

In plain language

Line up everyone in Central African Republic by age. The person in the middle is 14.4. 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.

Central African Republic has the youngest population in our data. Niger is next at 15.4. A median this low means a large share of the population are children. Life expectancy at birth in Central African Republic is 57.4 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 43.0 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 Central African Republic?

14.4 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Central African Republic are younger than 14.4 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 Central African Republic's population young or old?

Young. Central African Republic is 16.2 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 193rd 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 Central African Republic compare to Niger?

Niger has a median age of 15.4, 1.0 years older than Central African Republic. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 1st and 2nd youngest.