Tie::SortHash may be what you want here.

 use Tie::SortHash;


my %people = (
                'John Doe'  => 33,
                'Jane Doe'  => 29,
                'Jim Smith' => 15,
               );


my $sortblock = q(
                    my $c = (split /\s+/, $a)[1];
                    my $d = (split /\s+/, $b)[1];


$c cmp $d
                              ||
                    $hash{$a} <=> $hash{$b}
                   );


tie %people, 'Tie::SortHash', \%people, $sortblock;


foreach my $name ( keys %people ) {
    print $name . " is " . $people{$name} . " years old.\n";
  }


# This output will always be
  Jane Doe is 29 years old.
  John Doe is 33 years old.
  Jim Smith is 15 years old.

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