Median age in Peru
The median age in Peru is 29.8 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 0.8 years younger than the world median of 30.6, and makes Peru the 95th oldest of 193 countries.
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Peru among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Peru by age. The person in the middle is 29.8. 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 29.8 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 Peru is 77.7 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 47.9 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 Peru?
- 29.8 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Peru are younger than 29.8 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 Peru's population young or old?
- Young. Peru is 0.8 years below the world median of 30.6, and ranks 95th 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 Peru compare to Myanmar?
- Myanmar has a median age of 29.8, 0.0 years older than Peru. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 99th and 98th youngest.
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