Median age in Palestine
The median age in Palestine is 19.9 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 10.7 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes Palestine the 154th oldest of 193 countries.
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Palestine among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Palestine by age. The person in the middle is 19.9. 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 19.9 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 Palestine is 65.2 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 45.3 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 Palestine?
- 19.9 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Palestine are younger than 19.9 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 Palestine's population young or old?
- Young. Palestine is 10.7 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 154th 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 Palestine compare to Samoa?
- Samoa has a median age of 19.8, 0.1 years younger than Palestine. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 40th and 39th youngest.
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