How to calculate age in Excel from birthday

Published: 1/24/2022 Last updated: 1/24/2022

How to calculate age in Excel from birthday? Is this the question of which is bothering you? If yes, you are in the right place. Excel is a perfect tool not only for calculating, for instance, your savings and expenses, but also your age! So this is the thing which we are going to teach you in this article – calculating your age in Excel from birthday. So let’s focus, we are starting.

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Excel formula for calculating age in Excel

Excel formula for calculating age in Excel

To make any calculation in Excel, you need a formula. It is no different in this case. But before we tell you about the formula, we want to tell you what pieces of information you will need and how to put them in a table.

Calculating age is calculating age from the dates exactly – the date of your birth and the current date. So your chart should have three columns. The first column is the ‘Date of birth’ column. This is the title. In the row down below, you need to enter your date of birth. Don’t forget – it needs to be in the form of a date. If you enter it just as a number, the formula won’t work.

The second column is the ‘Current date’ or ‘Date of today’. It is also just a title of this column. In the row down below, you can just enter the date of today, but we don’t recommend it. Why? Because when you want to check your age once more in time, the date won’t be correct. It is better to choose a function „today” from Excel's functions. Then your current date will always be correct.

The last column is the column ‘my age’. Of course, this is also only the title. In the row down below will be shown the result of your calculations, that is your age. But before it will be shown and Excel will calculate age from date of birth, you need to pick or enter the proper formula in this row. The formula from Excel dedicated to calculating a person's age is ‘DATEIF’. We will show you how it should look at the example down below.

Imagine this table is a part of an Excel sheet.

1	A	B	C
2	Date of birth	Current date	My age
3	11/08/1987	09/12/2021

The date in this table is just an example, so don’t pay attention to it. We want to just show you how it should look.

The formula ‘DATEIF’ should be as follows:

DATEIF(A2,B2,”y”).

Why is there something like “y”? Thanks to putting this letter, Excel will calculate only full years between the date of your birth and current date. The completed chart will look like this:

1	A	B	C
2	Date of birth	Current date	My age
3	11/08/1987	09/12/2021	DATEIF(A2,B2,”y”)

And then, if you press ‘enter’, the result will be shown on a screen. So have a look:

1	A	B	C
2	Date of birth	Current date	My age
3	11/08/1987	09/12/2021	34

That’s all – now you see your age. You are 34 years old now.

Was it difficult? We don’t think so. Calculating age in Excel from birthday is a quite simple way to know your age. Excel also can be a birthday calculator! Of course, there are simpler ways, like using a chronological age calculator, but this way is good too.

Do you want to know more about your age? Check also our other articles and know, for instance, how many days until your birthday.

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