Countries with the Youngest Median Age

This quiz is depressing... Being 16 years old is already considered "old" in some countries?

No that's not what median age means.

Well, it is, kinda... If you are 16 and less than half the population of your country is younger than you, you could be called "old "... Of course such median could be, e.g., a result of a colossal, unprecedent baby boom in the last couple years, but I assume all of us are educated enough to know what such medians truly means...

What do you think it truly means? It doesn't mean that you are old. And in fact all of these countries *have* had unprecedented booms in population. Not because people are having more kids- they are having as many as ever- but more because quality of life is improving (access to clean water, medicine)... but still not very good... in this state between being catastrophically impoverished and on the path toward developing, the death rate remains high while the infant mortality rate starts to drop precipitously. Whenever a country gets to this stage in development there is almost always a population explosion.

Might want to credit Kurzegsagt, but yes.

You mean Kurzgesagt

Well this is depressing. All of these are starving African countries or poor countries ravaged by war. What's worst, many of these countries at the top (or bottom if you will) have both.

I guess fertility rate decreases median age

The "improvement" to fertility rate QM is referring to I think is that it is falling. Either that... or he meant to say infant mortality rate. Fertility and infant mortality are usually inversely correlated, and yes a high fertility rate decreases median age.

I'm surprised that all the countries on the list are in Africa. There is no any war-torn countries or autocratic countries in other continents on the list, like Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea or Haiti.

Because many of these are not only war torn, but also disease ridden. That lethal combination proves to be much worse for these poor African countries than other Asian/middle eastern nations that are only ravaged by war.

Keep in mind that the low median age basically means that there are many children per adult in those country. It's rather related to the high fertility and demographic expansion than to a low life expectancy.

It's both.

Yes, but rather because people don't breed much over 50...

Ongoing conflict, HIV, availability of health care, lack of social security and migration are all factors that remove the older demographics

You know the Syrian Civil War only lasted 6 years. Before that, Syria didn't have many issues.

Even though I understand what you are saying the word "only" saddens me....

The colonies strike back.

I just started by naming all the countries of Africa and suddenly i had a 100%. Tragic actually

In a way, yes, but it wouldn't be more or less tragic if there were countries from other continents on the list as well, right?

Some health care and birth control would go a long way

I guessed Afghanistan...oh well...

Every one of these are in Africa

Yeah...

That moment when you press 'give up' and then have to conclude that you were wrong in thinking you had tried all countries in Africa south of the Sahara

My strategy of just typing every country in Africa worked like a charm. :)