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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Angola and 
Canada, side by side
Angola in 2026: half the people are older than 18. Canada: half are older than 42.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Angola 36,749,906 people · Canada 39,299,104
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
AGO × CAN · 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
- 44
- Aged 15 to 64
- 53
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
- Children, under 15
- 15
- Aged 15 to 64
- 64
- Aged 65 and over
- 21
AGO × CAN · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Angola would have about 4.9 children and a woman in Canada about 1.3. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Babies born this year can expect about 65 years of life in Angola and about 83 in Canada.
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.
AGO × CAN · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Canada is the larger of the two, with about as many people as Angola: 40.5 million to 40.2 million.
Angola's population is 8.8 times what it was in 1950; Canada's population is 2.9 times what it was in 1950.
Looking ahead: Angola's population is still growing in 2100, and Canada's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Angola to have more people than Canada from 2027. In 2100: 150 million in Angola, 53.6 million in Canada (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Angola: people | Canada: people | Angola: half older than | Canada: half older than | Angola: children per woman | Canada: children per woman | Angola: life expectancy | Canada: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 4.55187 million | 13.7417 million | 19.9 | 27.7 | 5.77 | 3.37 | 35.9 | 68.2 |
| 1960 | 5.23165 million | 17.8988 million | 19.8 | 26.5 | 6.71 | 3.82 | 37.9 | 71.0 |
| 1970 | 5.85279 million | 21.4400 million | 17.1 | 26.0 | 7.43 | 2.27 | 39.7 | 72.6 |
| 1980 | 8.13387 million | 24.5338 million | 17.5 | 29.1 | 7.46 | 1.66 | 42.2 | 75.1 |
| 1990 | 11.6264 million | 27.7894 million | 17.4 | 32.8 | 7.27 | 1.70 | 41.9 | 77.4 |
| 2000 | 16.1949 million | 30.8918 million | 17.0 | 36.8 | 6.64 | 1.51 | 46.5 | 79.2 |
| 2010 | 23.2948 million | 34.1969 million | 17.3 | 39.7 | 6.19 | 1.64 | 57.2 | 81.3 |
| 2023 | 36.7499 million | 39.2991 million | 17.5 | 41.3 | 5.12 | 1.35 | 64.6 | 82.6 |
| 2030* | 45.1605 million | 41.6556 million | 18.3 | 42.7 | 4.56 | 1.32 | 65.9 | 83.7 |
| 2040* | 58.9653 million | 43.9514 million | 20.0 | 44.8 | 3.81 | 1.36 | 67.4 | 85.0 |
| 2050* | 74.2954 million | 45.6219 million | 21.9 | 46.1 | 3.24 | 1.39 | 68.8 | 86.2 |
| 2060* | 90.6479 million | 47.1453 million | 24.1 | 46.9 | 2.86 | 1.42 | 70.1 | 87.4 |
| 2070* | 107.137 million | 48.8578 million | 26.4 | 47.5 | 2.61 | 1.45 | 71.3 | 88.5 |
| 2080* | 123.012 million | 50.4493 million | 28.7 | 47.8 | 2.40 | 1.47 | 72.6 | 89.6 |
| 2090* | 137.557 million | 51.9567 million | 31.0 | 47.8 | 2.25 | 1.48 | 73.8 | 90.7 |
| 2100* | 150.046 million | 53.6122 million | 33.1 | 47.9 | 2.14 | 1.49 | 75.0 | 91.8 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
AGO − CAN · 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 Angola and which is Canada, 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; Angola is drawn in solid blue squares and Canada 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.
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 →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries