Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Bangladesh and Ethiopia, side by side

In 2026, half of the people in Bangladesh are older than 27. In Ethiopia, half are older than 20.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Bangladesh 171,466,990 people · Ethiopia 128,691,692

Bangladesh 178 million people Half are older than 27 7 in 100 are 65 or older

Ethiopia 139 million people Half are older than 20 3 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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BGD × ETH · 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.

Bangladesh

Children, under 15: 27
Aged 15 to 64: 66
Aged 65 and over: 7

Ethiopia

Children, under 15: 39
Aged 15 to 64: 58
Aged 65 and over: 3

BGD × ETH · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

At today's rates, a woman in Bangladesh would have about 2.1 children in her lifetime. In Ethiopia, about 3.7. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Babies born this year can expect about 75 years of life in Bangladesh and about 68 in Ethiopia.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Bangladesh 2.1

Ethiopia 3.7

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.

Bangladesh 75 years

Ethiopia 68 years

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

BGD × ETH · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Bangladesh has about 30% more people than Ethiopia: 178 million against 139 million.

Bangladesh's population is 4.3 times what it was in 1950; Ethiopia's population is 7.9 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Bangladesh's population is expected to peak in 2071, and Ethiopia's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Ethiopia to have more people than Bangladesh from 2046. In 2100: 209 million in Bangladesh, 367 million in Ethiopia (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Bangladesh: people	Ethiopia: people	Bangladesh: half older than	Ethiopia: half older than	Bangladesh: children per woman	Ethiopia: children per woman	Bangladesh: life expectancy	Ethiopia: life expectancy
1950	41.2069 million	17.6704 million	19.3	18.0	6.37	6.43	37.4	35.5
1960	51.8287 million	21.3767 million	18.9	18.5	6.74	6.51	44.0	39.6
1970	69.0589 million	27.8291 million	17.8	18.0	6.84	6.78	42.7	42.1
1980	88.0164 million	34.4285 million	17.5	16.7	6.33	7.29	52.3	42.8
1990	111.634 million	47.6097 million	18.4	16.8	4.51	7.20	55.8	45.1
2000	134.544 million	67.4115 million	20.7	16.1	3.28	6.65	62.0	50.9
2010	152.202 million	90.5385 million	22.9	16.8	2.38	5.28	68.0	59.7
2023	171.467 million	128.692 million	26.3	19.7	2.16	3.99	74.7	67.3
2030*	186.072 million	152.855 million	28.7	21.2	2.01	3.43	76.5	69.2
2040*	202.589 million	188.451 million	32.7	23.1	1.88	2.90	78.8	71.4
2050*	214.709 million	225.022 million	36.5	25.6	1.81	2.55	80.9	73.3
2060*	223.149 million	260.708 million	39.8	28.2	1.78	2.32	82.8	75.1
2070*	226.126 million	293.791 million	43.4	30.6	1.75	2.15	84.4	76.9
2080*	224.081 million	323.239 million	46.4	33.1	1.74	2.03	85.9	78.5
2090*	218.048 million	347.651 million	48.3	35.4	1.73	1.94	87.2	80.1
2100*	208.597 million	367.290 million	49.7	37.6	1.72	1.88	88.3	81.6

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

BGD − ETH · 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 Bangladesh and which is Ethiopia, 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; Bangladesh is drawn in solid blue squares and Ethiopia 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: Bangladesh · Ethiopia. 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 Bangladesh and Ethiopia 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.

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.

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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