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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Afghanistan and 
Angola, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In Afghanistan, half are older than 18; in Angola, half are older than 18.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Afghanistan 41,454,761 people · Angola 36,749,906
How to read this: each pyramid stacks a place’s people by age — babies at the bottom, the oldest at the top, men on the left and women on the right. A wide bottom means many children; a wide top means many older people.
Each bar is a share of its own place’s people, so a small country and a large one can be read side by side.
men women projected
AFG × AGO · 2026 · age groups
If each place were 100 people
Shrink each population to 100 people and count them. Dots are children under 15, filled squares are people aged 15 to 64, and open squares are people 65 and over. The picture follows the year slider above.
- Children, under 15
- 42
- Aged 15 to 64
- 55
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
- Children, under 15
- 44
- Aged 15 to 64
- 53
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
AFG × AGO · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Afghanistan would have about 4.6 children and a woman in Angola about 4.9. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 67 years in Afghanistan, about 65 in Angola.
Children per woman, 2026
Each figure is one child: how many children a woman would have in her lifetime at that year’s rates.
The dashed line at 2.1 is about what it takes for each generation to replace the one before it, leaving migration aside.
How long a newborn can expect to live, 2026
Each block is ten years of life, if the death rates of that year stayed the same all life long.
Hatched marks are UN projections (medium variant), not measurements.
AFG × AGO · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Afghanistan is the larger of the two, with about 10% more people than Angola: 45.0 million to 40.2 million.
Afghanistan's population is 5.8 times what it was in 1950; Angola's population is 8.8 times what it was in 1950.
Looking ahead: Afghanistan's population is still growing in 2100, and Angola's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Angola to have more people than Afghanistan from 2060. In 2100: 130 million in Afghanistan, 150 million in Angola (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Afghanistan: people | Angola: people | Afghanistan: half older than | Angola: half older than | Afghanistan: children per woman | Angola: children per woman | Afghanistan: life expectancy | Angola: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 7.77618 million | 4.55187 million | 19.4 | 19.9 | 7.25 | 5.77 | 28.2 | 35.9 |
| 1960 | 9.03504 million | 5.23165 million | 18.9 | 19.8 | 7.28 | 6.71 | 32.8 | 37.9 |
| 1970 | 11.2901 million | 5.85279 million | 18.0 | 17.1 | 7.40 | 7.43 | 37.5 | 39.7 |
| 1980 | 13.1693 million | 8.13387 million | 16.8 | 17.5 | 7.64 | 7.46 | 39.3 | 42.2 |
| 1990 | 12.0457 million | 11.6264 million | 16.0 | 17.4 | 7.58 | 7.27 | 45.1 | 41.9 |
| 2000 | 20.1303 million | 16.1949 million | 15.0 | 17.0 | 7.57 | 6.64 | 55.0 | 46.5 |
| 2010 | 28.2841 million | 23.2948 million | 15.6 | 17.3 | 6.20 | 6.19 | 60.7 | 57.2 |
| 2023 | 41.4548 million | 36.7499 million | 17.9 | 17.5 | 4.84 | 5.12 | 66.0 | 64.6 |
| 2030* | 50.0394 million | 45.1605 million | 19.2 | 18.3 | 4.22 | 4.56 | 67.6 | 65.9 |
| 2040* | 63.3479 million | 58.9653 million | 21.5 | 20.0 | 3.56 | 3.81 | 69.5 | 67.4 |
| 2050* | 76.8851 million | 74.2954 million | 24.0 | 21.9 | 3.09 | 3.24 | 70.9 | 68.8 |
| 2060* | 90.3627 million | 90.6479 million | 26.6 | 24.1 | 2.76 | 2.86 | 72.3 | 70.1 |
| 2070* | 103.417 million | 107.137 million | 29.1 | 26.4 | 2.51 | 2.61 | 73.6 | 71.3 |
| 2080* | 114.674 million | 123.012 million | 31.4 | 28.7 | 2.31 | 2.40 | 74.8 | 72.6 |
| 2090* | 123.305 million | 137.557 million | 33.7 | 31.0 | 2.17 | 2.25 | 76.1 | 73.8 |
| 2100* | 130.217 million | 150.046 million | 35.8 | 33.1 | 2.06 | 2.14 | 77.3 | 75.0 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
AFG − AGO · 1950–2100 · every age
Which ages each place has more of
Each column is a year and each row an age, from babies at the bottom to 100 at the top. The shade of a cell shows which place has more of its people at that age — the key beside the picture tells you which shade is Afghanistan and which is Angola, and the in-between shade means the same. Because it compares shares, a small place and a large one can be compared fairly.
236 countries · 1950–2100
Where they sit among all countries
Every country in the world, every year from 1950 to 2100. The grey cloud shows where most countries are; Afghanistan is drawn in solid blue squares and Angola in open orange squares, so you can see whether each is ahead of the crowd, behind it or in the middle.
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Apparatus
Sources and method
Both sides of this comparison come from the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects 2024 — the same release, the same tables, counted to 2023 and projected beyond it on the medium variant. That shared origin is what a comparison rests on.
For how the median age is derived, why “100 people” can read a person high or low, and what the all-country pictures do and do not count, see the method.
250 comparisons have a page of their own; any other two places can be compared from the boxes at the top.
Sources: UN WPP 2024 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
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