Average age of population | Afghanistan – yearly data, chart and table

The average age of population of Afghanistan in 2025 amounted to 17.28 years old, which is 0.946% more than in 2024, when it was  17.12 years old. It has been growing in this country for already 21 years in a row. Over the entire period of data from the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs since 1950, this indicator has decreased in 1.06 times. The lowest average age of population was recorded in 2004, when it was 13.90 years old. The highest value was in 1951, when average age of population in Afghanistan reached 18.40 years old. The data is sourced from the UN report "World Population Prospects 2024", with the values for 2024 and 2025 being projections.