Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Australia and Ukraine, side by side

Australia in 2026: half the people are older than 40. Ukraine: half are older than 43.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Australia 26,451,124 people · Ukraine 37,732,836

Australia 27.2 million people Half are older than 40 18 in 100 are 65 or older

Ukraine 39.5 million people Half are older than 43 19 in 100 are 65 or older

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.

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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.

Year 2026 · UN projection

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AUS × UKR · 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.

Australia

Children, under 15: 18
Aged 15 to 64: 64
Aged 65 and over: 18

Ukraine

Children, under 15: 13
Aged 15 to 64: 68
Aged 65 and over: 19

AUS × UKR · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

At today's rates, a woman in Australia would have about 1.6 children in her lifetime. In Ukraine, about 1.0. Babies born this year can expect about 84 years of life in Australia and about 75 in Ukraine.

Children per woman, 2026

Each figure is one child: how many children a woman would have in her lifetime at that year’s rates.

Australia 1.6

Ukraine 1.0

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.

Australia 84 years

Ukraine 75 years

Hatched marks are UN projections (medium variant), not measurements.

AUS × UKR · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

There are 39.5 million people in Ukraine and 27.2 million in Australia: about 50% more people than Australia.

Australia's population is 3.3 times what it was in 1950; Ukraine's population is 1.1 times what it was in 1950.

Australia's population is still growing in 2100. Meanwhile Ukraine's population peaked in 1993. The UN expects Australia to have more people than Ukraine from 2050. In 2100: 43.1 million in Australia, 15.2 million in Ukraine (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Australia: people	Ukraine: people	Australia: half older than	Ukraine: half older than	Australia: children per woman	Ukraine: children per woman	Australia: life expectancy	Ukraine: life expectancy
1950	8.17675 million	37.3109 million	30.4	27.4	3.06	2.45	69.0	61.2
1960	10.2808 million	42.8241 million	29.6	29.3	3.45	2.29	70.9	69.4
1970	12.5994 million	47.2613 million	27.6	32.3	2.86	2.08	70.7	70.8
1980	14.7213 million	49.9552 million	29.4	33.5	1.90	1.95	74.6	69.8
1990	17.1263 million	52.0541 million	32.1	34.2	1.91	1.84	77.0	70.3
2000	19.1325 million	49.5567 million	35.4	37.3	1.76	1.11	79.6	67.8
2010	22.1416 million	46.4560 million	37.0	39.6	1.95	1.44	82.0	70.2
2023	26.4511 million	37.7328 million	38.8	43.0	1.64	0.98	83.9	73.4
2030*	28.1885 million	38.3539 million	40.5	44.7	1.64	1.03	84.9	75.7
2040*	30.3575 million	35.2709 million	42.5	49.2	1.64	1.09	86.1	77.2
2050*	32.5070 million	31.9901 million	43.0	52.1	1.64	1.14	87.3	78.8
2060*	34.5627 million	28.3113 million	43.9	54.2	1.63	1.18	88.3	80.3
2070*	36.6351 million	24.5942 million	44.6	57.2	1.63	1.22	89.4	81.7
2080*	38.7008 million	21.0759 million	44.9	59.3	1.64	1.25	90.5	83.1
2090*	40.8767 million	17.9089 million	45.1	58.7	1.64	1.27	91.6	84.4
2100*	43.1437 million	15.1974 million	45.8	58.9	1.63	1.30	92.6	85.6

* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.

AUS − UKR · 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 Australia and which is Ukraine, 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; Australia is drawn in solid blue squares and Ukraine 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

Australia and Ukraine 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.

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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