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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Angola and 
Sudan, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In Angola, half are older than 18; in Sudan, half are older than 20.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Angola 36,749,906 people · Sudan 50,042,790
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 × SDN · 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
- 40
- Aged 15 to 64
- 57
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
AGO × SDN · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
Angola is at about 4.9 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Sudan is at about 4.1. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 65 years in Angola, about 67 in Sudan.
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 × SDN · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Sudan has about 30% more people than Angola: 53.3 million against 40.2 million.
Set each against its own 1950 self and Angola's population is 8.8 times what it was in 1950, Sudan's population is 8.6 times what it was in 1950.
Angola's population is still growing in 2100. Meanwhile Sudan's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Angola to have more people than Sudan from 2077. In 2100: 150 million in Angola, 137 million in Sudan (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Angola: people | Sudan: people | Angola: half older than | Sudan: half older than | Angola: children per woman | Sudan: children per woman | Angola: life expectancy | Sudan: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 4.55187 million | 6.18991 million | 19.9 | 17.1 | 5.77 | 6.66 | 35.9 | 45.8 |
| 1960 | 5.23165 million | 8.36449 million | 19.8 | 16.6 | 6.71 | 6.66 | 37.9 | 49.6 |
| 1970 | 5.85279 million | 11.6958 million | 17.1 | 16.1 | 7.43 | 6.99 | 39.7 | 52.3 |
| 1980 | 8.13387 million | 17.0589 million | 17.5 | 16.4 | 7.46 | 6.59 | 42.2 | 54.1 |
| 1990 | 11.6264 million | 22.0215 million | 17.4 | 16.8 | 7.27 | 6.07 | 41.9 | 55.5 |
| 2000 | 16.1949 million | 27.8167 million | 17.0 | 16.8 | 6.64 | 5.60 | 46.5 | 59.0 |
| 2010 | 23.2948 million | 35.4144 million | 17.3 | 17.3 | 6.19 | 5.14 | 57.2 | 63.0 |
| 2023 | 36.7499 million | 50.0428 million | 17.5 | 19.3 | 5.12 | 4.32 | 64.6 | 66.3 |
| 2030* | 45.1605 million | 58.5716 million | 18.3 | 20.5 | 4.56 | 3.88 | 65.9 | 67.6 |
| 2040* | 58.9653 million | 71.7306 million | 20.0 | 22.4 | 3.81 | 3.36 | 67.4 | 69.3 |
| 2050* | 74.2954 million | 85.2064 million | 21.9 | 25.0 | 3.24 | 3.00 | 68.8 | 70.9 |
| 2060* | 90.6479 million | 98.6274 million | 24.1 | 27.5 | 2.86 | 2.74 | 70.1 | 72.3 |
| 2070* | 107.137 million | 110.783 million | 26.4 | 29.9 | 2.61 | 2.53 | 71.3 | 73.8 |
| 2080* | 123.012 million | 121.318 million | 28.7 | 32.1 | 2.40 | 2.38 | 72.6 | 75.2 |
| 2090* | 137.557 million | 130.242 million | 31.0 | 34.3 | 2.25 | 2.25 | 73.8 | 76.7 |
| 2100* | 150.046 million | 136.891 million | 33.1 | 36.5 | 2.14 | 2.15 | 75.0 | 78.1 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
AGO − SDN · 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 Sudan, 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 Sudan 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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Each place on its own: Angola · Sudan. Or pick any two places with the boxes at the top of this page.
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Apparatus
Sources and method
Every figure for Angola and Sudan 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.
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