Median age in Netherlands
The median age in Netherlands is 41.4 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 10.8 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Netherlands the 31st oldest of 193 countries.
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Netherlands among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Netherlands by age. The person in the middle is 41.4. 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 41.4 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 Netherlands is 82.2 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 40.8 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 Netherlands?
- 41.4 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Netherlands are younger than 41.4 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 Netherlands's population young or old?
- Older than most. Netherlands is 10.8 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 31st 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 Netherlands compare to Denmark?
- Denmark has a median age of 41.3, 0.1 years younger than Netherlands. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 163rd and 162nd youngest.
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