Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Australia and Venezuela, side by side

In 2026, half of the people in Australia are older than 40. In Venezuela, half are older than 31.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Australia 26,451,124 people · Venezuela 28,300,854

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

Venezuela 28.6 million people Half are older than 31 11 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.

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AUS × VEN · 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

Venezuela

Children, under 15: 24
Aged 15 to 64: 65
Aged 65 and over: 11

AUS × VEN · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Australia would have about 1.6 children and a woman in Venezuela about 2.0. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 84 years in Australia, about 73 in Venezuela.

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

Venezuela 2.0

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

Venezuela 73 years

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

AUS × VEN · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

There are 28.6 million people in Venezuela and 27.2 million in Australia: about as many people as Australia.

Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Australia's population is 3.3 times what it was in 1950, while Venezuela's population is 5.2 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Australia's population is still growing in 2100, and Venezuela's population is expected to peak in 2057. The UN expects Australia to have more people than Venezuela from 2042. In 2100: 43.1 million in Australia, 28.3 million in Venezuela (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Australia: people	Venezuela: people	Australia: half older than	Venezuela: half older than	Australia: children per woman	Venezuela: children per woman	Australia: life expectancy	Venezuela: life expectancy
1950	8.17675 million	5.48885 million	30.4	17.1	3.06	6.63	69.0	51.1
1960	10.2808 million	8.16009 million	29.6	16.5	3.45	6.38	70.9	58.4
1970	12.5994 million	11.3878 million	27.6	16.9	2.86	5.32	70.7	64.8
1980	14.7213 million	15.2582 million	29.4	18.8	1.90	4.20	74.6	68.2
1990	17.1263 million	19.8270 million	32.1	20.7	1.91	3.45	77.0	71.0
2000	19.1325 million	24.5267 million	35.4	23.0	1.76	2.79	79.6	72.4
2010	22.1416 million	28.8131 million	37.0	25.8	1.95	2.40	82.0	73.1
2023	26.4511 million	28.3009 million	38.8	30.0	1.64	2.08	83.9	72.5
2030*	28.1885 million	29.1518 million	40.5	31.2	1.64	1.99	84.9	73.7
2040*	30.3575 million	30.4954 million	42.5	33.9	1.64	1.90	86.1	75.3
2050*	32.5070 million	31.0949 million	43.0	37.5	1.64	1.83	87.3	76.9
2060*	34.5627 million	31.1979 million	43.9	40.3	1.63	1.79	88.3	78.5
2070*	36.6351 million	30.9576 million	44.6	41.9	1.63	1.76	89.4	80.0
2080*	38.7008 million	30.4560 million	44.9	44.3	1.64	1.74	90.5	81.5
2090*	40.8767 million	29.6200 million	45.1	46.4	1.64	1.73	91.6	82.9
2100*	43.1437 million	28.2806 million	45.8	47.4	1.63	1.72	92.6	84.2

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

AUS − VEN · 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 Venezuela, 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 Venezuela 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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Sources and method

Australia and Venezuela 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.

How the median age and the “100 people” pictures are worked out, and why the pictures of every country leave the regions out: how the figures here are put together.

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