Median age in France
The median age in France is 42.1 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 11.5 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes France the 25th oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
France among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in France by age. The person in the middle is 42.1. 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 42.1 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 France is 83.3 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 41.2 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 France?
- 42.1 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in France are younger than 42.1 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 France's population young or old?
- Older than most. France is 11.5 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 25th 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 France compare to Lithuania?
- Lithuania has a median age of 42.0, 0.1 years younger than France. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 169th and 168th youngest.
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