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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Bangladesh and 
India, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In Bangladesh, half are older than 27; in India, half are older than 30.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Bangladesh 171,466,990 people · India 1,438,069,596
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
BGD × IND · 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
- 27
- Aged 15 to 64
- 66
- Aged 65 and over
- 7
- Children, under 15
- 24
- Aged 15 to 64
- 68
- Aged 65 and over
- 8
BGD × IND · 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 India, about 1.9. Babies born this year can expect about 75 years of life in Bangladesh and about 73 in India.
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.
BGD × IND · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
There are 1.48 billion people in India and 178 million in Bangladesh: about 8 times as many people as Bangladesh.
Set each against its own 1950 self and Bangladesh's population is 4.3 times what it was in 1950, India's population is 4.3 times what it was in 1950.
Looking ahead: Bangladesh's population is expected to peak in 2071, and India's population is expected to peak in 2061. In 2100: 209 million in Bangladesh, 1.51 billion in India (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Bangladesh: people | India: people | Bangladesh: half older than | India: half older than | Bangladesh: children per woman | India: children per woman | Bangladesh: life expectancy | India: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 41.2069 million | 346.279 million | 19.3 | 21.0 | 6.37 | 5.73 | 37.4 | 41.2 |
| 1960 | 51.8287 million | 435.990 million | 18.9 | 20.2 | 6.74 | 5.92 | 44.0 | 45.6 |
| 1970 | 69.0589 million | 545.864 million | 17.8 | 19.1 | 6.84 | 5.62 | 42.7 | 48.6 |
| 1980 | 88.0164 million | 687.354 million | 17.5 | 19.9 | 6.33 | 4.78 | 52.3 | 53.6 |
| 1990 | 111.634 million | 864.972 million | 18.4 | 20.7 | 4.51 | 4.04 | 55.8 | 58.6 |
| 2000 | 134.544 million | 1.05792 billion | 20.7 | 22.2 | 3.28 | 3.35 | 62.0 | 62.8 |
| 2010 | 152.202 million | 1.24348 billion | 22.9 | 24.6 | 2.38 | 2.60 | 68.0 | 67.2 |
| 2023 | 171.467 million | 1.43807 billion | 26.3 | 29.1 | 2.16 | 1.98 | 74.7 | 72.0 |
| 2030* | 186.072 million | 1.52514 billion | 28.7 | 31.8 | 2.01 | 1.88 | 76.5 | 73.6 |
| 2040* | 202.589 million | 1.62258 billion | 32.7 | 35.7 | 1.88 | 1.80 | 78.8 | 75.7 |
| 2050* | 214.709 million | 1.67959 billion | 36.5 | 39.3 | 1.81 | 1.76 | 80.9 | 77.5 |
| 2060* | 223.149 million | 1.70095 billion | 39.8 | 42.3 | 1.78 | 1.73 | 82.8 | 79.3 |
| 2070* | 226.126 million | 1.68920 billion | 43.4 | 44.6 | 1.75 | 1.72 | 84.4 | 81.0 |
| 2080* | 224.081 million | 1.64555 billion | 46.4 | 46.5 | 1.74 | 1.71 | 85.9 | 82.5 |
| 2090* | 218.048 million | 1.58031 billion | 48.3 | 47.9 | 1.73 | 1.70 | 87.2 | 84.0 |
| 2100* | 208.597 million | 1.50525 billion | 49.7 | 48.8 | 1.72 | 1.69 | 88.3 | 85.3 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
BGD − IND · 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 India, 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 India 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
Bangladesh and India 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.
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.
Sources: UN WPP 2024 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
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