Belarus: an older population than the UK
the age half the people are older than, 2023
Half the people here are older than 40.5 years, against 39.8 in the UK. In 1950: 23.7 against 33.9. It became older than the UK in 2019; in 2018 they were level.
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The median age splits a population in two: half the people are younger, half older.
Blue is the country of the headline, orange the one it is compared with; one scale. The ring marks where the lines crossed; the gap after it is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both share.
- Belarus: Median age years
23.7 (1950) → 40.5 (2023)
- United Kingdom: Median age years
33.9 (1950) → 39.8 (2023)
Well-known countries against every country of sufficient size. An overtaking counts if the country was well behind at the start, ahead in no more than a fifth of the years before it, and it lasts to the latest shared year (at least two or three years in a row). A short dip of up to two years does not end a lead and is named. At most three overtakings per well-known country, and each country in at most one card of a kind.
UN estimates (World Population Prospects 2024). Populations age both because people live longer and because fewer children are born.
A question for this picture
Who will pay pensions in a country ageing faster than the rich ones?