Median age in Maldives
The median age in Maldives is 31.9 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 1.3 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Maldives the 88th oldest of 193 countries.
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Maldives among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Maldives by age. The person in the middle is 31.9. 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 31.9 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 Maldives is 81.0 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 49.1 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 Maldives?
- 31.9 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Maldives are younger than 31.9 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 Maldives's population young or old?
- Older than most. Maldives is 1.3 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 88th 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 Maldives compare to United Arab Emirates?
- United Arab Emirates has a median age of 31.6, 0.3 years younger than Maldives. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 106th and 105th youngest.
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