🇵🇫Median age in French Polynesia

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French Polynesia among its neighbours

In plain language

Line up everyone in French Polynesia by age. The person in the middle is 35.4. 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.

A median of 35.4 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 French Polynesia is 84.1 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 48.7 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 French Polynesia?

35.4 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in French Polynesia are younger than 35.4 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 French Polynesia's population young or old?

Older than most. French Polynesia is 4.8 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 65th 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 French Polynesia compare to Bahamas?

Bahamas has a median age of 35.0, 0.4 years younger than French Polynesia. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 129th and 128th youngest.