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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Algeria and 
Iraq, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In Algeria, half are older than 30; in Iraq, half are older than 22.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Algeria 46,164,219 people · Iraq 45,074,049
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
DZA × IRQ · 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
- 29
- Aged 15 to 64
- 64
- Aged 65 and over
- 7
- Children, under 15
- 35
- Aged 15 to 64
- 61
- Aged 65 and over
- 4
DZA × IRQ · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
At today's rates, a woman in Algeria would have about 2.6 children in her lifetime. In Iraq, about 3.1. A baby born in Algeria this year can expect to live about 77 years. In Iraq, about 73.
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.
DZA × IRQ · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Algeria has about as many people as Iraq: 48.0 million against 48.0 million.
Set each against its own 1950 self and Algeria's population is 5.3 times what it was in 1950, Iraq's population is 8.5 times what it was in 1950.
Algeria's population is expected to peak in 2090. Meanwhile Iraq's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Iraq to have more people than Algeria from 2027. In 2100: 64.5 million in Algeria, 101 million in Iraq (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Algeria: people | Iraq: people | Algeria: half older than | Iraq: half older than | Algeria: children per woman | Iraq: children per woman | Algeria: life expectancy | Iraq: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 9.01843 million | 5.65335 million | 19.4 | 21.5 | 7.32 | 6.20 | 42.7 | 37.4 |
| 1960 | 11.4249 million | 7.02205 million | 17.3 | 20.4 | 7.50 | 5.30 | 40.8 | 51.5 |
| 1970 | 13.7837 million | 9.73561 million | 16.3 | 18.0 | 7.70 | 7.07 | 43.3 | 60.5 |
| 1980 | 18.6072 million | 13.5920 million | 16.5 | 16.4 | 6.99 | 6.59 | 54.5 | 60.9 |
| 1990 | 25.3758 million | 17.5812 million | 18.5 | 17.0 | 4.51 | 5.93 | 67.7 | 57.6 |
| 2000 | 30.9039 million | 24.4241 million | 21.8 | 17.9 | 2.59 | 4.92 | 70.6 | 64.9 |
| 2010 | 36.1882 million | 31.0454 million | 26.1 | 18.9 | 2.88 | 4.46 | 74.1 | 68.1 |
| 2023 | 46.1642 million | 45.0740 million | 29.2 | 21.3 | 2.77 | 3.25 | 76.3 | 72.3 |
| 2030* | 50.1542 million | 51.9372 million | 30.5 | 23.1 | 2.45 | 2.97 | 77.7 | 73.1 |
| 2040* | 54.8735 million | 62.2232 million | 32.4 | 26.2 | 2.16 | 2.66 | 79.6 | 74.1 |
| 2050* | 59.5656 million | 71.9287 million | 35.5 | 28.8 | 2.00 | 2.45 | 81.3 | 75.3 |
| 2060* | 62.5900 million | 80.5202 million | 39.3 | 31.2 | 1.91 | 2.27 | 83.0 | 76.5 |
| 2070* | 63.8590 million | 87.9959 million | 41.8 | 33.7 | 1.86 | 2.15 | 84.4 | 77.8 |
| 2080* | 64.7507 million | 93.7619 million | 43.0 | 36.2 | 1.82 | 2.05 | 85.8 | 79.0 |
| 2090* | 65.1155 million | 98.0040 million | 45.2 | 38.3 | 1.79 | 1.97 | 87.0 | 80.3 |
| 2100* | 64.4875 million | 100.649 million | 47.8 | 40.1 | 1.78 | 1.92 | 88.1 | 81.6 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
DZA − IRQ · 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 Algeria and which is Iraq, 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; Algeria is drawn in solid blue squares and Iraq in open orange squares, so you can see whether each is ahead of the crowd, behind it or in the middle.
Apparatus
Sources and method
Every figure for Algeria and Iraq is the United Nations Population Division's, from World Population Prospects 2024: counted to 2023, and the medium projection for each year after that. Both places are taken from the same release and the same tables, which is what makes them comparable at all.
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.
This is one of 250 pairs with a page. The boxes at the top will take any other two places you want to see side by side.
Sources: UN WPP 2024 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
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