How do I calculate someone's age in Java?

Question

I want to return an age in years as an int in a Java method. What I have now is the following where getBirthDate() returns a Date object (with the birth date ;-)):

Answer 1

Here is the java code to calculate age in year, month and days.

public static AgeModel calculateAge(long birthDate) {
    int years = 0;
    int months = 0;
    int days = 0;

    if (birthDate != 0) {
        //create calendar object for birth day
        Calendar birthDay = Calendar.getInstance();
        birthDay.setTimeInMillis(birthDate);

        //create calendar object for current day
        Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
        Calendar current = Calendar.getInstance();
        //Get difference between years
        years = now.get(Calendar.YEAR) - birthDay.get(Calendar.YEAR);

        //get months
        int currMonth = now.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;
        int birthMonth = birthDay.get(Calendar.MONTH) + 1;

        //Get difference between months
        months = currMonth - birthMonth;

        //if month difference is in negative then reduce years by one and calculate the number of months.
        if (months < 0) {
            years--;
            months = 12 - birthMonth + currMonth;
        } else if (months == 0 && now.get(Calendar.DATE) < birthDay.get(Calendar.DATE)) {
            years--;
            months = 11;
        }

        //Calculate the days
        if (now.get(Calendar.DATE) > birthDay.get(Calendar.DATE))
            days = now.get(Calendar.DATE) - birthDay.get(Calendar.DATE);
        else if (now.get(Calendar.DATE) < birthDay.get(Calendar.DATE)) {
            int today = now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
            now.add(Calendar.MONTH, -1);
            days = now.getActualMaximum(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) - birthDay.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH) + today;
        } else {
            days = 0;
            if (months == 12) {
                years++;
                months = 0;
            }
        }
    }

    //Create new Age object
    return new AgeModel(days, months, years);
}

Answer 2

public int getAge(String birthdate, String today){
    // birthdate = "1986-02-22"
    // today = "2014-09-16"

    // String class has a split method for splitting a string
    // split(<delimiter>)
    // birth[0] = 1986 as string
    // birth[1] = 02 as string
    // birth[2] = 22 as string
    // now[0] = 2014 as string
    // now[1] = 09 as string
    // now[2] = 16 as string
    // **birth** and **now** arrays are automatically contains 3 elements 
    // split method here returns 3 elements because of yyyy-MM-dd value
    String birth[] = birthdate.split("-");
    String now[] = today.split("-");
    int age = 0;

    // let us convert string values into integer values
    // with the use of Integer.parseInt(<string>)
    int ybirth = Integer.parseInt(birth[0]);
    int mbirth = Integer.parseInt(birth[1]);
    int dbirth = Integer.parseInt(birth[2]);

    int ynow = Integer.parseInt(now[0]);
    int mnow = Integer.parseInt(now[1]);
    int dnow = Integer.parseInt(now[2]);

    if(ybirth < ynow){ // has age if birth year is lesser than current year
        age = ynow - ybirth; // let us get the interval of birth year and current year
        if(mbirth == mnow){ // when birth month comes, it's ok to have age = ynow - ybirth if
            if(dbirth > dnow) // birth day is coming. need to subtract 1 from age. not yet a bday
                age--;
        }else if(mbirth > mnow){ age--; } // birth month is comming. need to subtract 1 from age            
    }

    return age;
}

Answer 3

With the date4j library :

int age = today.getYear() - birthdate.getYear();
if(today.getDayOfYear() < birthdate.getDayOfYear()){
  age = age - 1; 
}

Answer 4

Try to copy this one in your code, then use the method to get the age.

public static int getAge(Date birthday)
{
    GregorianCalendar today = new GregorianCalendar();
    GregorianCalendar bday = new GregorianCalendar();
    GregorianCalendar bdayThisYear = new GregorianCalendar();

    bday.setTime(birthday);
    bdayThisYear.setTime(birthday);
    bdayThisYear.set(Calendar.YEAR, today.get(Calendar.YEAR));

    int age = today.get(Calendar.YEAR) - bday.get(Calendar.YEAR);

    if(today.getTimeInMillis() < bdayThisYear.getTimeInMillis())
        age--;

    return age;
}