site.btaBulgaria Remains among EU Countries with Oldest Population in 2025

The median age of the European Union’s population reached 44.9 years as of January 1, 2025, meaning that half of the EU population was younger than that age and the other half older, according to data published by Eurostat on Friday.

The lowest median age in the EU was recorded in Ireland (39.6 years), Luxembourg (39.8 years) and Malta (40 years). The highest median ages were observed in Italy (49.1 years), Bulgaria (47.3 years) and Portugal (also 47.3 years), the latest data show.

In 2024, the EU countries with the highest and lowest median ages were ranked in the same order.

Across the EU, the median age increased by 2.1 years between 2015 and 2025. An increase was recorded in all Member States except Germany and Malta, where the median age declined by 0.4 years in each case.

Population ageing was most pronounced in Slovakia and Cyprus, where the median age rose by 4 years, followed by Italy (+3.9 years), Greece and Poland (both +3.8 years) and Portugal (+3.7 years).

In Bulgaria, the median age stood at 44.2 years in 2015 and increased by 3.1 years to reach 47.3 years in 2025.

As of January 1, 2025, the median age of people born in an EU Member State was 2.1 years higher than that of residents born outside the EU, whose median age was 43.1 years, Eurostat added.