Median age in Djibouti
The median age in Djibouti is 24.7 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 5.9 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes Djibouti the 128th oldest of 193 countries.
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Djibouti among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Djibouti by age. The person in the middle is 24.7. 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 24.7 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 Djibouti is 66.0 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 41.3 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 Djibouti?
- 24.7 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Djibouti are younger than 24.7 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 Djibouti's population young or old?
- Young. Djibouti is 5.9 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 128th 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 Djibouti compare to Laos?
- Laos has a median age of 24.6, 0.1 years younger than Djibouti. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 66th and 65th youngest.
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