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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Algeria and 
Morocco, side by side
Algeria in 2026: half the people are older than 30. Morocco: half are older than 31.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Algeria 46,164,219 people · Morocco 37,712,505
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 × MAR · 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
- 25
- Aged 15 to 64
- 66
- Aged 65 and over
- 9
DZA × MAR · 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 Morocco, about 2.2. Babies born this year can expect about 77 years of life in Algeria and about 76 in Morocco.
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 × MAR · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Algeria has about 20% more people than Morocco: 48.0 million against 38.8 million.
Algeria's population is 5.3 times what it was in 1950; Morocco's population is 4.3 times what it was in 1950.
Algeria's population is expected to peak in 2090. Meanwhile Morocco's population is expected to peak in 2058. In 2100: 64.5 million in Algeria, 37.9 million in Morocco (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Algeria: people | Morocco: people | Algeria: half older than | Morocco: half older than | Algeria: children per woman | Morocco: children per woman | Algeria: life expectancy | Morocco: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 9.01843 million | 8.93545 million | 19.4 | 19.3 | 7.32 | 6.14 | 42.7 | 38.8 |
| 1960 | 11.4249 million | 11.6249 million | 17.3 | 17.9 | 7.50 | 6.89 | 40.8 | 41.7 |
| 1970 | 13.7837 million | 15.1295 million | 16.3 | 16.5 | 7.70 | 6.68 | 43.3 | 48.7 |
| 1980 | 18.6072 million | 19.4599 million | 16.5 | 17.4 | 6.99 | 5.78 | 54.5 | 55.2 |
| 1990 | 25.3758 million | 24.3756 million | 18.5 | 19.4 | 4.51 | 4.06 | 67.7 | 62.4 |
| 2000 | 30.9039 million | 28.4234 million | 21.8 | 22.4 | 2.59 | 2.77 | 70.6 | 66.8 |
| 2010 | 36.1882 million | 32.4670 million | 26.1 | 25.7 | 2.88 | 2.63 | 74.1 | 70.8 |
| 2023 | 46.1642 million | 37.7125 million | 29.2 | 30.2 | 2.77 | 2.23 | 76.3 | 75.3 |
| 2030* | 50.1542 million | 39.9535 million | 30.5 | 32.4 | 2.45 | 2.08 | 77.7 | 76.5 |
| 2040* | 54.8735 million | 42.1682 million | 32.4 | 35.2 | 2.16 | 1.94 | 79.6 | 78.2 |
| 2050* | 59.5656 million | 43.4404 million | 35.5 | 38.4 | 2.00 | 1.86 | 81.3 | 79.8 |
| 2060* | 62.5900 million | 43.7074 million | 39.3 | 41.5 | 1.91 | 1.82 | 83.0 | 81.3 |
| 2070* | 63.8590 million | 43.0781 million | 41.8 | 43.9 | 1.86 | 1.79 | 84.4 | 82.6 |
| 2080* | 64.7507 million | 41.8064 million | 43.0 | 45.7 | 1.82 | 1.76 | 85.8 | 83.9 |
| 2090* | 65.1155 million | 40.0481 million | 45.2 | 47.5 | 1.79 | 1.74 | 87.0 | 85.1 |
| 2100* | 64.4875 million | 37.8844 million | 47.8 | 49.1 | 1.78 | 1.74 | 88.1 | 86.3 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
DZA − MAR · 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 Morocco, 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 Morocco 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
Every figure for Algeria and Morocco 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.
The working behind the median age, the rounding in the “100 people” pictures and the reason the regions are kept out of the all-country views are all set out in 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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