Median age in Turkey
The median age in Turkey is 33.0 years (2024): half the population is older, half younger. That is 2.4 years older than the world median of 30.6, and makes Turkey the 80th oldest of 193 countries.
Key numbers
Turkey among its neighbours
In plain language
Line up everyone in Turkey by age. The person in the middle is 33.0. 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 33.0 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 Turkey is 77.2 years, so a person at the median age has, on a rough reckoning, about 44.2 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 Turkey?
- 33.0 years in 2024, by the UN World Population Prospects 2024. Half of the people in Turkey are younger than 33.0 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 Turkey's population young or old?
- Older than most. Turkey is 2.4 years above the world median of 30.6, and ranks 80th 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 Turkey compare to Vietnam?
- Vietnam has a median age of 32.9, 0.1 years younger than Turkey. The two sit next to each other in the ranking, at 114th and 113th youngest.
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