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Median Age of the World's Population

The other day I was wondering if I'd hit the age where there were as many people younger than me in the world as older than me.

In other words, I wondered what the median age of the world's population is. Yesterday, I was talking to our Chief Marketing Officer about it and we decided to look it up.

Turns out I passed it five years ago. The median age is 28.

The source is the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs/Population Division in their World Population Prospects.

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Comments (2)

Alex on March 11, 2007:

That differs per country.Japan,Italy, and Germany ITS CLOSER TO 40. Spain has more people over 60 than under 20.The world is getting older in more ways than one.

David Gillies on March 22, 2007:

I was wondering the exact same question and your blog was a very early Google hit. I'm even more depressed: I'm coming up on ten years past the median. Somewhat comfortingly, I'm still below the median for developed countries, but not for long.

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Created: Feb. 28, 2007
Last Modified: Feb. 28, 2007
Author: jtauber