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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Argentina and 
Italy, side by side
Argentina in 2026: half the people are older than 34. Italy: half are older than 50.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Argentina 45,538,401 people · Italy 59,499,453
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
ARG × ITA · 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
- 20
- Aged 15 to 64
- 67
- Aged 65 and over
- 13
- Children, under 15
- 11
- Aged 15 to 64
- 63
- Aged 65 and over
- 26
ARG × ITA · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
At today's rates, a woman in Argentina would have about 1.5 children in her lifetime. In Italy, about 1.2. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 78 years in Argentina, about 84 in Italy.
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.
ARG × ITA · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
There are 58.9 million people in Italy and 46.0 million in Argentina: about 30% more people than Argentina.
Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Argentina's population is 2.7 times what it was in 1950, while Italy's population is 1.3 times what it was in 1950.
Looking ahead: Argentina's population is expected to peak in 2050, and Italy's population peaked in 2014. The UN expects Argentina to have more people than Italy from 2060. In 2100: 38.3 million in Argentina, 35.4 million in Italy (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Argentina: people | Italy: people | Argentina: half older than | Italy: half older than | Argentina: children per woman | Italy: children per woman | Argentina: life expectancy | Italy: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 17.0180 million | 46.3917 million | 25.4 | 28.5 | 3.16 | 2.52 | 61.3 | 65.7 |
| 1960 | 20.3861 million | 49.5146 million | 26.5 | 31.5 | 3.14 | 2.38 | 64.2 | 69.2 |
| 1970 | 23.8783 million | 53.3902 million | 26.9 | 32.9 | 3.08 | 2.40 | 65.7 | 71.6 |
| 1980 | 28.0116 million | 56.4121 million | 27.0 | 34.0 | 3.30 | 1.65 | 68.6 | 74.0 |
| 1990 | 32.7559 million | 57.0314 million | 27.3 | 37.1 | 3.03 | 1.33 | 71.6 | 77.0 |
| 2000 | 37.2140 million | 57.2722 million | 27.8 | 40.3 | 2.59 | 1.25 | 73.9 | 79.6 |
| 2010 | 41.2887 million | 60.1642 million | 29.9 | 43.5 | 2.41 | 1.44 | 75.7 | 82.1 |
| 2023 | 45.5384 million | 59.4995 million | 33.1 | 48.5 | 1.50 | 1.20 | 77.4 | 83.7 |
| 2030* | 46.5850 million | 57.9461 million | 35.9 | 51.0 | 1.51 | 1.25 | 78.4 | 84.7 |
| 2040* | 47.8176 million | 55.2212 million | 39.5 | 53.0 | 1.52 | 1.30 | 79.9 | 86.0 |
| 2050* | 48.3089 million | 51.8911 million | 42.9 | 53.9 | 1.54 | 1.35 | 81.4 | 87.2 |
| 2060* | 47.6387 million | 47.5845 million | 46.7 | 54.0 | 1.55 | 1.39 | 82.8 | 88.4 |
| 2070* | 46.1005 million | 43.3533 million | 50.1 | 54.4 | 1.56 | 1.42 | 84.2 | 89.5 |
| 2080* | 43.9762 million | 40.2259 million | 50.7 | 54.0 | 1.57 | 1.43 | 85.4 | 90.6 |
| 2090* | 41.2550 million | 37.7486 million | 51.7 | 53.9 | 1.57 | 1.46 | 86.6 | 91.7 |
| 2100* | 38.2560 million | 35.3768 million | 52.7 | 54.4 | 1.58 | 1.48 | 87.7 | 92.8 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
ARG − ITA · 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 Argentina and which is Italy, 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; Argentina is drawn in solid blue squares and Italy 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
Argentina and Italy are drawn here from one source and one release: the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects 2024, counted through 2023 and projected on its medium variant after that. Two places read off the same tables can be set against each other; two read off different tables cannot.
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.
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