Median age in Mozambique
The median age in Mozambique is 16.4 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 14.2 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes Mozambique the 186th oldest of 193 countries.
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Mozambique among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Mozambique by age. The person in the middle is 16.4. 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 16.4 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 Mozambique is 63.6 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 47.2 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 Mozambique?
- 16.4 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Mozambique are younger than 16.4 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 Mozambique's population young or old?
- Young. Mozambique is 14.2 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 186th 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 Mozambique compare to Burundi?
- Burundi has a median age of 16.1, 0.3 years younger than Mozambique. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 8th and 7th youngest.
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