Region · UN WPP 2024

Africa population

Africa population now

1,593,625,266

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 1,480,770,525

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 1.58499 billion
Median age: 20.5
Aged 65+: 3.8%

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male female projection · one cell = 500,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

AGG · 1950–2100 · in brief

Africa in numbers

Africa had 1,480,770,525 people in mid-2023, 18.3% of the world's people. That is 6.5 times its 1950 population of 228 million. It covers 58 countries and areas; the largest are Nigeria (15.4%), Ethiopia (8.7%), Egypt (7.7%), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (7.1%) and Tanzania (4.5%).

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 3.81 billion.

Births outnumber deaths in every year from 1950 to 2100, estimates and projection alike.

The median age was 19.1 in 1950 and 20.0 in 2023; the projection has 36.1 in 2100. 3.6% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 14.8% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is still growing in 2100 in the medium projection.

Population, mid-2023: 1,480,770,525
Share of the world, 2023: 18.3%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +2.34% · +33,886,874 people
Births, 2023: 46,063,890
Deaths, 2023: 11,340,841
Net migration, 2023: −436,291
Children per woman, 2023: 4.07
Median age, 2023: 20.0 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 63.8 years
Population, mid-1950: 227,776,419
Projected, mid-2050: 2,466,647,618
Projected, mid-2100: 3,813,883,603

AGG · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection (medium). Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Africa, 1950–2100

Africa: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	225,440,040	10,878,554	6,126,234	6.52	37.3
1951	estimate	230,112,798	11,138,514	6,140,469	6.53	37.8
1952	estimate	235,001,139	11,398,576	6,171,304	6.54	38.3
1953	estimate	240,077,942	11,669,182	6,206,318	6.56	38.7
1954	estimate	245,292,210	11,924,006	6,262,981	6.57	39.1
1955	estimate	250,719,436	12,185,523	6,300,616	6.58	39.5
1956	estimate	256,356,274	12,452,577	6,344,589	6.59	40.0
1957	estimate	262,186,606	12,725,154	6,518,358	6.61	39.9
1958	estimate	268,070,716	12,997,768	6,566,752	6.62	40.2
1959	estimate	274,012,764	13,271,430	6,479,078	6.63	41.2
1960	estimate	280,530,443	13,574,664	6,576,155	6.64	41.4
1961	estimate	287,313,460	13,890,988	6,638,545	6.66	41.8
1962	estimate	294,314,028	14,224,917	6,693,550	6.67	42.3
1963	estimate	301,605,249	14,549,409	6,748,792	6.68	42.7
1964	estimate	309,136,853	14,873,520	6,820,527	6.68	43.1
1965	estimate	316,983,944	15,200,798	6,917,683	6.68	43.4
1966	estimate	325,042,551	15,573,967	7,059,458	6.69	43.5
1967	estimate	333,461,438	15,945,665	7,143,662	6.69	43.8
1968	estimate	342,239,995	16,330,533	7,186,998	6.69	44.3
1969	estimate	351,361,283	16,733,078	7,296,154	6.69	44.5
1970	estimate	360,703,245	17,149,970	7,353,888	6.69	45.0
1971	estimate	370,400,502	17,599,818	7,427,383	6.69	45.4
1972	estimate	380,251,698	18,030,481	7,587,304	6.69	45.5
1973	estimate	390,372,066	18,462,562	7,596,368	6.69	46.1
1974	estimate	401,271,238	18,959,739	7,713,755	6.69	46.4
1975	estimate	412,468,732	19,476,174	7,797,268	6.69	46.8
1976	estimate	424,397,586	19,987,209	7,778,881	6.68	47.5
1977	estimate	436,595,685	20,493,576	7,837,668	6.66	48.0
1978	estimate	448,724,577	21,016,840	7,917,659	6.65	48.4
1979	estimate	462,353,283	21,600,687	7,977,427	6.62	49.0
1980	estimate	476,043,053	22,153,362	8,052,483	6.59	49.4
1981	estimate	490,059,715	22,677,101	8,125,312	6.55	49.8
1982	estimate	505,181,571	23,258,567	8,217,685	6.51	50.2
1983	estimate	520,735,526	23,852,382	8,692,214	6.46	49.5
1984	estimate	535,729,305	24,307,373	8,826,345	6.39	49.7
1985	estimate	551,546,236	24,811,278	8,903,764	6.32	50.1
1986	estimate	567,781,304	25,251,254	8,946,588	6.24	50.6
1987	estimate	584,152,694	25,715,324	8,908,524	6.17	51.2
1988	estimate	601,049,379	26,172,014	9,211,375	6.09	51.1
1989	estimate	617,725,398	26,590,805	9,141,661	6.00	51.7
1990	estimate	634,992,356	26,988,120	9,359,208	5.91	51.7
1991	estimate	652,557,704	27,451,826	9,648,085	5.83	51.5
1992	estimate	669,649,305	27,889,411	9,871,122	5.75	51.4
1993	estimate	687,466,322	28,346,967	9,899,657	5.66	51.8
1994	estimate	705,776,654	28,708,447	10,818,954	5.59	50.0
1995	estimate	723,228,121	29,327,240	10,114,749	5.51	52.3
1996	estimate	742,162,189	29,829,716	10,321,538	5.43	52.4
1997	estimate	760,784,774	30,300,012	10,443,464	5.35	52.6
1998	estimate	779,984,037	30,826,049	10,742,354	5.30	52.4
1999	estimate	799,978,863	31,510,804	10,676,214	5.25	53.1
2000	estimate	820,180,248	32,158,303	10,651,154	5.20	53.7
2001	estimate	840,984,808	32,815,219	10,738,954	5.16	54.0
2002	estimate	862,395,367	33,443,532	10,804,551	5.12	54.4
2003	estimate	884,426,756	34,164,896	10,843,665	5.08	54.8
2004	estimate	907,041,700	34,946,957	10,861,010	5.06	55.3
2005	estimate	930,514,737	35,809,368	10,883,100	5.04	55.9
2006	estimate	954,578,027	36,596,955	10,847,489	5.01	56.5
2007	estimate	979,286,264	37,359,281	10,804,674	4.99	57.1
2008	estimate	1,004,824,934	38,223,063	10,781,947	4.97	57.7
2009	estimate	1,031,305,631	38,935,471	11,007,540	4.93	57.8
2010	estimate	1,058,249,434	39,685,493	10,752,995	4.89	58.8
2011	estimate	1,086,183,557	40,356,070	10,943,361	4.84	59.0
2012	estimate	1,114,113,646	41,002,061	10,742,252	4.80	59.8
2013	estimate	1,143,573,261	41,586,183	10,760,333	4.74	60.3
2014	estimate	1,173,987,327	42,195,588	10,926,822	4.69	60.5
2015	estimate	1,204,453,351	42,660,670	10,984,982	4.63	60.8
2016	estimate	1,235,697,639	42,958,897	11,040,754	4.54	61.2
2017	estimate	1,266,719,287	43,403,062	11,130,820	4.48	61.5
2018	estimate	1,299,084,942	43,626,295	11,010,347	4.39	62.2
2019	estimate	1,331,734,591	43,965,813	11,121,028	4.31	62.5
2020	estimate	1,364,276,394	44,373,658	11,532,418	4.24	62.3
2021	estimate	1,397,365,945	44,892,534	12,097,038	4.18	61.8
2022	estimate	1,430,140,159	45,469,231	11,628,157	4.13	62.9
2023	estimate	1,463,627,143	46,063,890	11,340,841	4.07	63.8
2024	estimate	1,497,913,907	46,621,058	11,522,895	4.01	64.0
2025	projection	1,532,367,791	47,080,237	11,702,869	3.95	64.2
2026	projection	1,567,367,367	47,561,903	11,885,985	3.89	64.4
2027	projection	1,602,603,151	48,018,490	12,077,701	3.83	64.6
2028	projection	1,637,920,987	48,489,426	12,275,702	3.77	64.8
2029	projection	1,673,433,982	48,963,910	12,480,198	3.71	65.0
2030	projection	1,709,220,077	49,389,695	12,689,275	3.65	65.1
2031	projection	1,745,206,855	49,826,342	12,902,668	3.60	65.3
2032	projection	1,781,475,806	50,224,366	13,118,656	3.54	65.5
2033	projection	1,817,879,909	50,631,764	13,338,660	3.48	65.7
2034	projection	1,854,450,419	51,030,395	13,564,134	3.43	65.8
2035	projection	1,891,246,713	51,392,190	13,795,938	3.38	66.0
2036	projection	1,928,243,664	51,766,213	14,033,817	3.33	66.2
2037	projection	1,965,315,465	52,072,837	14,271,799	3.28	66.3
2038	projection	2,002,462,195	52,437,669	14,516,069	3.23	66.5
2039	projection	2,039,675,579	52,783,788	14,765,908	3.19	66.7
2040	projection	2,076,976,419	53,108,811	15,020,147	3.15	66.8
2041	projection	2,114,330,351	53,385,652	15,280,016	3.10	67.0
2042	projection	2,151,692,177	53,669,529	15,540,910	3.07	67.2
2043	projection	2,189,032,801	53,936,983	15,811,042	3.03	67.3
2044	projection	2,226,394,082	54,175,750	16,089,278	2.99	67.5
2045	projection	2,263,672,636	54,364,214	16,367,319	2.95	67.6
2046	projection	2,300,810,800	54,587,404	16,655,864	2.92	67.8
2047	projection	2,337,861,610	54,770,231	16,943,133	2.89	67.9
2048	projection	2,374,874,084	54,949,893	17,237,903	2.85	68.1
2049	projection	2,411,728,495	55,107,482	17,539,577	2.82	68.2
2050	projection	2,448,400,021	55,261,305	17,847,369	2.79	68.4
2051	projection	2,484,895,215	55,412,091	18,158,791	2.76	68.5
2052	projection	2,521,349,824	55,567,857	18,478,712	2.74	68.7
2053	projection	2,557,552,930	55,682,069	18,804,029	2.71	68.8
2054	projection	2,593,492,633	55,786,311	19,131,486	2.68	69.0
2055	projection	2,629,268,283	55,888,613	19,467,237	2.66	69.1
2056	projection	2,664,835,665	55,983,634	19,808,518	2.63	69.3
2057	projection	2,700,129,287	56,077,658	20,160,474	2.61	69.4
2058	projection	2,735,085,446	56,180,813	20,511,563	2.59	69.5
2059	projection	2,769,795,354	56,265,170	20,867,759	2.56	69.7
2060	projection	2,804,396,901	56,336,143	21,229,363	2.54	69.8
2061	projection	2,838,597,277	56,397,412	21,597,137	2.52	70.0
2062	projection	2,872,569,786	56,440,558	21,974,247	2.50	70.1
2063	projection	2,906,059,223	56,462,565	22,356,562	2.48	70.2
2064	projection	2,939,182,671	56,481,066	22,738,237	2.46	70.4
2065	projection	2,971,998,761	56,499,978	23,124,668	2.44	70.5
2066	projection	3,004,422,966	56,526,180	23,523,269	2.42	70.6
2067	projection	3,036,440,033	56,538,319	23,918,857	2.40	70.8
2068	projection	3,068,112,177	56,535,037	24,319,801	2.39	70.9
2069	projection	3,099,270,217	56,519,690	24,727,761	2.37	71.0
2070	projection	3,130,049,024	56,489,320	25,140,495	2.35	71.2
2071	projection	3,160,381,573	56,464,508	25,552,916	2.34	71.3
2072	projection	3,190,324,633	56,422,502	25,974,081	2.32	71.4
2073	projection	3,219,812,314	56,377,606	26,400,368	2.31	71.5
2074	projection	3,248,764,991	56,307,689	26,832,748	2.29	71.7
2075	projection	3,277,303,770	56,236,270	27,264,814	2.28	71.8
2076	projection	3,305,320,759	56,164,938	27,701,953	2.26	71.9
2077	projection	3,332,743,251	56,078,152	28,148,642	2.25	72.0
2078	projection	3,359,780,553	55,976,694	28,589,673	2.24	72.2
2079	projection	3,386,258,654	55,879,231	29,037,491	2.22	72.3
2080	projection	3,412,072,382	55,770,355	29,490,736	2.21	72.4
2081	projection	3,437,328,908	55,663,535	29,944,472	2.20	72.5
2082	projection	3,461,980,633	55,581,093	30,397,959	2.19	72.7
2083	projection	3,486,154,570	55,464,855	30,850,388	2.18	72.8
2084	projection	3,509,792,977	55,357,582	31,313,433	2.17	72.9
2085	projection	3,532,783,062	55,229,111	31,776,424	2.15	73.0
2086	projection	3,555,312,614	55,092,003	32,236,607	2.14	73.2
2087	projection	3,577,332,809	54,958,044	32,693,555	2.13	73.3
2088	projection	3,598,593,036	54,827,141	33,143,450	2.12	73.4
2089	projection	3,619,166,900	54,678,966	33,594,393	2.11	73.5
2090	projection	3,639,288,159	54,519,415	34,041,123	2.10	73.7
2091	projection	3,658,803,100	54,374,316	34,484,540	2.10	73.8
2092	projection	3,677,604,383	54,206,908	34,924,884	2.08	73.9
2093	projection	3,695,799,402	54,049,916	35,364,973	2.08	74.0
2094	projection	3,713,415,780	53,893,576	35,792,349	2.07	74.1
2095	projection	3,730,446,857	53,718,692	36,216,545	2.06	74.3
2096	projection	3,746,875,871	53,548,490	36,635,453	2.05	74.4
2097	projection	3,762,829,366	53,375,193	37,050,307	2.04	74.5
2098	projection	3,778,135,532	53,205,580	37,462,716	2.04	74.6
2099	projection	3,792,901,115	53,017,712	37,857,297	2.03	74.8
2100	projection	3,807,041,857	52,836,673	38,248,509	2.02	74.9

AGG · members

Countries and areas in Africa

Africa: member countries and areas, population mid-2023, share of the group and projected mid-2100
#	Country or area	Mid-2023	Share	Mid-2100, projected
1	Nigeria	227,882,945	15.4%	476,747,781
2	Ethiopia	128,691,692	8.7%	367,289,596
3	Egypt	114,535,772	7.7%	201,895,183
4	Democratic Republic of the Congo	105,789,732	7.1%	430,709,446
5	Tanzania	66,617,606	4.5%	262,834,721
6	South Africa	63,212,384	4.3%	94,314,448
7	Kenya	55,339,002	3.7%	104,195,500
8	Sudan	50,042,790	3.4%	136,890,755
9	Uganda	48,656,602	3.3%	120,835,192
10	Algeria	46,164,219	3.1%	64,487,528
11	Morocco	37,712,505	2.5%	37,884,370
12	Angola	36,749,906	2.5%	150,045,574
13	Ghana	33,787,914	2.3%	67,547,746
14	Mozambique	33,635,160	2.3%	104,346,534
15	Madagascar	31,195,932	2.1%	85,341,147
16	Côte d’Ivoire	31,165,654	2.1%	104,042,820
17	Cameroon	28,372,687	1.9%	88,875,688
18	Niger	26,159,867	1.8%	90,819,274
19	Mali	23,769,128	1.6%	79,354,048
20	Burkina Faso	23,025,776	1.6%	49,854,228
21	Malawi	21,104,482	1.4%	59,141,258
22	Zambia	20,723,965	1.4%	64,473,916
23	Chad	19,319,064	1.3%	69,546,607
24	Somalia	18,358,615	1.2%	67,364,024
25	Senegal	18,077,574	1.2%	47,014,186
26	Zimbabwe	16,340,821	1.1%	37,166,572
27	Guinea	14,405,468	0.97%	32,007,046
28	Benin	14,111,034	0.95%	39,587,568
29	Rwanda	13,954,472	0.94%	32,779,346
30	Burundi	13,689,449	0.92%	37,873,962
31	Tunisia	12,200,431	0.82%	10,652,235
32	South Sudan	11,483,374	0.78%	23,840,772
33	Togo	9,304,338	0.63%	26,300,754
34	Sierra Leone	8,460,512	0.57%	15,934,256
35	Libya	7,305,659	0.49%	9,783,569
36	Republic of the Congo	6,182,885	0.42%	20,025,644
37	Liberia	5,493,031	0.37%	12,665,394
38	Central African Republic	5,152,420	0.35%	18,779,150
39	Mauritania	5,022,442	0.34%	17,118,470
40	Eritrea	3,470,390	0.23%	8,444,382
41	Namibia	2,963,095	0.20%	5,897,944
42	Gambia	2,697,846	0.18%	5,703,042
43	Gabon	2,484,788	0.17%	6,903,322
44	Botswana	2,480,244	0.17%	3,836,824
45	Lesotho	2,311,472	0.16%	3,259,299
46	Guinea-Bissau	2,153,339	0.15%	4,665,484
47	Equatorial Guinea	1,847,549	0.12%	5,003,223
48	Mauritius	1,273,588	0.09%	581,716
49	Eswatini	1,230,506	0.08%	1,340,879
50	Djibouti	1,152,944	0.08%	1,841,534
51	Réunion	874,883	0.06%	852,214
52	Comoros	850,387	0.06%	1,911,034
53	Western Sahara	579,729	0.04%	831,294
54	Cabo Verde	522,330	0.04%	416,940
55	Mayotte	316,016	0.02%	1,375,550
56	São Tomé and Príncipe	230,872	0.02%	534,014
57	Seychelles	127,950	less than 0.01%	115,964
58	Saint Helena	5,288	less than 0.01%	2,635

Show the numbers: Africa, mid-2026, by single year of age

Africa: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	23,176,900	22,528,900
1	22,629,000	22,048,800
2	22,218,900	21,660,000
3	21,802,700	21,256,000
4	21,413,800	20,892,400
5	21,054,200	20,554,700
6	20,720,300	20,225,200
7	20,425,400	19,937,300
8	20,173,000	19,690,700
9	19,899,400	19,425,400
10	19,614,400	19,151,600
11	19,333,000	18,883,000
12	18,991,100	18,550,800
13	18,630,100	18,194,400
14	18,262,700	17,833,700
15	17,883,000	17,466,900
16	17,475,700	17,076,400
17	17,034,100	16,657,100
18	16,578,300	16,230,200
19	16,111,000	15,792,500
20	15,631,500	15,344,000
21	15,122,200	14,869,100
22	14,616,100	14,393,300
23	14,146,500	13,946,700
24	13,709,400	13,529,100
25	13,286,900	13,127,200
26	12,856,800	12,721,900
27	12,420,200	12,312,900
28	12,033,600	11,947,900
29	11,709,800	11,644,500
30	11,398,900	11,356,500
31	11,068,200	11,045,600
32	10,755,400	10,751,000
33	10,473,100	10,485,200
34	10,184,300	10,212,400
35	9,906,650	9,949,380
36	9,638,810	9,698,440
37	9,365,610	9,442,010
38	9,092,300	9,181,500
39	8,830,020	8,935,720
40	8,564,990	8,683,040
41	8,288,190	8,405,990
42	8,008,910	8,122,160
43	7,726,690	7,837,200
44	7,449,430	7,560,390
45	7,179,200	7,292,000
46	6,905,280	7,021,860
47	6,610,050	6,739,340
48	6,298,000	6,445,730
49	6,002,780	6,165,980
50	5,727,750	5,906,110
51	5,462,360	5,654,060
52	5,208,450	5,410,930
53	4,978,380	5,192,180
54	4,762,310	4,987,620
55	4,547,500	4,786,270
56	4,338,810	4,594,590
57	4,128,060	4,403,550
58	3,916,250	4,211,220
59	3,714,950	4,028,280
60	3,525,020	3,855,560
61	3,348,340	3,695,220
62	3,173,300	3,535,320
63	2,993,760	3,368,190
64	2,816,160	3,199,150
65	2,639,220	3,027,860
66	2,469,100	2,860,640
67	2,303,100	2,693,820
68	2,138,250	2,524,410
69	1,979,960	2,359,750
70	1,825,020	2,198,160
71	1,674,630	2,038,500
72	1,527,650	1,878,640
73	1,381,980	1,718,360
74	1,240,650	1,562,120
75	1,101,830	1,407,840
76	973,757	1,258,520
77	854,652	1,120,520
78	746,502	1,000,320
79	646,478	886,516
80	550,293	772,422
81	465,003	666,537
82	390,648	572,054
83	326,523	489,746
84	269,048	415,580
85	218,197	348,554
86	174,950	289,975
87	138,252	239,163
88	107,402	194,616
89	81,452	154,912
90	60,426	120,899
91	44,363	93,554
92	32,358	71,874
93	23,237	54,235
94	16,297	39,897
95	11,211	28,696
96	7,594	20,225
97	5,078	13,990
98	3,356	9,520
99	2,184	6,338
100+	3,805	11,631

AGG · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Africa, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

AGG · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Africa

In Africa the number of people aged 15–64 is still growing in 2100, the last year the UN projects. In 2023 there were 843,795,000 of them.

100 aged 15–64

69 children

6 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

AGG · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Africa, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Africa loses 304,160 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 5–9, at 71,942 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 10,000 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 570,041 (1981) and the most it lost was 1,482,657 (2011).

This is a group of countries, so its figure counts only moves across its own outer edge: someone moving from one country inside it to another does not appear.

How migration works everywhere

AGG · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Africa

Of every 100 babies born in Africa in 2023, 15 had a mother under 20, 69 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 16 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 16 under 20 and 18 aged 35 or older.

1950
16 · 66 · 18

2023
15 · 69 · 16

2050 · projected
11 · 72 · 17

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 46,063,890
Average age when women have a baby: 28.9 years; 29.4 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 86; 140 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Africa by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	190,809	334,132	409,445	247,149	148,859	35,329
15–19	1,610,849	3,164,087	5,032,037	6,602,047	6,251,498	2,930,113
20–24	2,726,949	4,944,343	8,407,908	12,300,664	14,107,062	9,894,235
25–29	2,516,952	4,360,530	7,478,529	11,219,406	14,450,565	15,081,896
30–34	1,902,409	3,229,517	5,589,222	8,345,401	11,111,357	14,100,097
35–39	1,198,413	2,119,550	3,412,996	5,005,310	6,437,415	7,957,095
40–44	586,374	1,068,533	1,468,902	1,936,325	2,317,740	2,483,017
45–49	138,533	243,496	342,727	390,320	418,472	344,243
50–54	7,266	11,986	16,537	17,268	18,337	10,648
All babies	10,878,554	19,476,174	32,158,303	46,063,890	55,261,305	52,836,673

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual tables for regions and groups (estimates to 2023, then the medium projection), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UN WUP 2025 · Maddison Project 2020 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The 58 countries listed were summed and checked against the UN's total for every year. The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.