Median age in Indonesia
The median age in Indonesia is 30.1 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 0.5 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes Indonesia the 92nd oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
Indonesia among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Indonesia by age. The person in the middle is 30.1. 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 30.1 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 Indonesia is 71.1 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 41.0 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 Indonesia?
- 30.1 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Indonesia are younger than 30.1 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 Indonesia's population young or old?
- Young. Indonesia is 0.5 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 92nd 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 Indonesia compare to Panama?
- Panama has a median age of 29.9, 0.2 years younger than Indonesia. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 102nd and 101st youngest.
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