Median Age
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ISRAEL RANKINGS
Median Age
Israel and Its Neighbors
Israel Iran Arab League member Arab League and Iran combined
United Arab Emirates 35.8
Iran 35.2
Qatar 34.4
Tunisia 34.1
Bahrain 33.5
Saudi Arabia 32.8
Morocco 30.9
Kuwait 30.4
Israel 30.2
Lebanon 29.4
Algeria 29.3
Oman 27.5
Arab League and Iran, average 27.0
Djibouti 26.7
Libya 26.4
Jordan 25.4
Egypt 24.6
Syria 24.5
Comoros 23.1
Iraq 22.7
West Bank 22.0
Yemen 20.5
Gaza Strip 19.9
Sudan 19.5
Mauritania 18.6
Somalia 15.7
Median age, total population, 2025 estimates. Israel in blue, Iran in brown.
The median Israeli is 30.2 years old, ranking 9 of 26. The Arab League and Iran average 27.0. Half of Israelis are younger than the median and half are older.
Israel is among the youngest of the developed countries because of its high birth rate, which is shown on the births per woman pages.
Source. CIA World Factbook, last edition before its retirement in February 2026, from the public factbook.json archive. Median age, total population. The combined bar is the population-weighted average of the 22 Arab League members, counting the West Bank and the Gaza Strip separately, and Iran.
Ranking 12
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