Median age in Serbia
The median age in Serbia is 44.1 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 13.5 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Serbia the 15th oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
Serbia among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Serbia by age. The person in the middle is 44.1. 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 44.1 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 Serbia is 76.8 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 32.7 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 Serbia?
- 44.1 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Serbia are younger than 44.1 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 Serbia's population young or old?
- Older than most. Serbia is 13.5 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 15th 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 Serbia compare to Hungary?
- Hungary has a median age of 43.6, 0.5 years younger than Serbia. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 179th and 178th youngest.
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