How old is The Doctor? | Doctor Who

The Doctor is a character full of mystery, a time traveller with more faces than we know but just how old is the Time Lord? How many years has the Doctor been alive!
This is a question I tried to answer when I first started on KZbin back in 2017 and it's safe to say times change. The Doctor's age is far from a simple thing to work out and the age of this timeless hero has developed a lot in the last 7 years! So join me in finding out how many birthday candles the Doctor needs on their cake haha.
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Have an epic day everyone and BE KIND!
Allons-y!

[@thomaswatson2594]

I think when the 6th doctor said he was 900 years old, he was talking gallifreyan years.

[@grahamturner1290]

To quote the Curator : "Who knows?"

[@petebecreative]

It doesn't matter. The Doctor is just very old. Let's just leave it at that.

[@Goobergal8705]

I feel asking about age with a character that ages way slower than us, travels through time, with unknown amounts of time even throughout a season is kinda pointless beyond "The Doctor is VERY old, numbers are mostly meaningless"

[@aidianmills76]

Used to love Dr who ….not anymore….i won’t bag out the current actors or writers …anything that has this new WOKE disney agendas steaming hot death touch .. PASS……I’ll not spend my money or attention towards something that’s trampling on my childhood memories of what the doctor meant too me or allow my children to be exposed too the current DR WHO Shows ideals ……I give up …I quit …I’m not coming back ..peaceful journey too you DR WHO ……wherever that may lead you

[@dozierc]

"Rule One: The Doctor lies

[@neilkendrick4976]

A fan since 63: about two thousand years old, in human years, that is.

[@Kindasortamaybe]

Last time I did the math starting with the 1st doctor to the 13th i landed at 4000. We don't know how long she was in Prison, then we don't know exactly what the bigeneration entails but assumeing 14 will later regenerate into 15, we don't know how long 14 lives then so 15 idk.

[@The-Radio-Demon04]

He's old. That's all you need to know.

[@charlesmento5968]

934,234,567,000,213,450 billions years old. He's god! No.

[@uriel_n_diaz]

Reminds me of TARDISArchives’ video back in the day of the same topic. Loved the video!

[@KidKinobi]

This Video is super cool so I tried writing out The Doctor's ages in a timeline and got a migraine, so feel free anyone to better format this and correct it:

[@Clounlamer1]

Nice job! I still think its messy that the Fugitive Doctors tardis is a police box.

[@briandaleske5139]

I theorize that The-Doctor, might be 200,000 years old.

[@williamwatson4354]

If you count recent revelations and factor in the 6th Doctor comments about Time Lords being around 10,000,000 years, that would be a decent starting point.

[@thegamingaa8915]

My head canon is that when the Doctor gave up his name and became the War Doctor, he reset his age but then continued with that number following the time war. Given that the First Doctor died of old age at about 450, there's potential for the potion he was given on Karn to have extended his later lifespans, explaining how War could be approaching 900 and Eleventh could have lived over 1000. Which would add another thousand or so years onto the new who age.

[@DoctorHowTV]

If he was a 90 year old man at the start of the reboot, Rose Tyler would be a 2 year old baby. That's the kind of age gap we're talking about.

[@samwell54]

if you count his time in heaven sent he’s 4 billion something

[@sketch_0193]

10th Doctor -"The timelords. The oldest and the most mighty race in the universe."

[@CulturePhilter]

Great breakdown. Thanks 🙂