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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Bangladesh and 
Pakistan, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In Bangladesh, half are older than 27; in Pakistan, half are older than 22.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Bangladesh 171,466,990 people · Pakistan 247,504,496
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 × PAK · 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
- 36
- Aged 15 to 64
- 60
- Aged 65 and over
- 4
BGD × PAK · 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 Pakistan, about 3.4. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. A baby born in Bangladesh this year can expect to live about 75 years. In Pakistan, about 68.
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 × PAK · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Pakistan has about 50% more people than Bangladesh: 259 million against 178 million.
Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Bangladesh's population is 4.3 times what it was in 1950, while Pakistan's population is 7.2 times what it was in 1950.
Looking ahead: Bangladesh's population is expected to peak in 2071, and Pakistan's population is still growing in 2100. In 2100: 209 million in Bangladesh, 511 million in Pakistan (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Bangladesh: people | Pakistan: people | Bangladesh: half older than | Pakistan: half older than | Bangladesh: children per woman | Pakistan: children per woman | Bangladesh: life expectancy | Pakistan: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 41.2069 million | 35.8493 million | 19.3 | 18.3 | 6.37 | 6.80 | 37.4 | 34.3 |
| 1960 | 51.8287 million | 45.7093 million | 18.9 | 19.0 | 6.74 | 6.80 | 44.0 | 44.1 |
| 1970 | 69.0589 million | 60.1667 million | 17.8 | 18.1 | 6.84 | 6.80 | 42.7 | 52.9 |
| 1980 | 88.0164 million | 82.2910 million | 17.5 | 18.1 | 6.33 | 6.73 | 52.3 | 57.2 |
| 1990 | 111.634 million | 116.156 million | 18.4 | 17.9 | 4.51 | 6.36 | 55.8 | 59.7 |
| 2000 | 134.544 million | 154.879 million | 20.7 | 18.0 | 3.28 | 5.35 | 62.0 | 61.9 |
| 2010 | 152.202 million | 199.239 million | 22.9 | 19.8 | 2.38 | 4.40 | 68.0 | 64.4 |
| 2023 | 171.467 million | 247.505 million | 26.3 | 21.3 | 2.16 | 3.60 | 74.7 | 67.7 |
| 2030* | 186.072 million | 276.883 million | 28.7 | 22.6 | 2.01 | 3.25 | 76.5 | 68.6 |
| 2040* | 202.589 million | 324.938 million | 32.7 | 25.0 | 1.88 | 2.87 | 78.8 | 70.0 |
| 2050* | 214.709 million | 371.864 million | 36.5 | 27.3 | 1.81 | 2.58 | 80.9 | 71.3 |
| 2060* | 223.149 million | 414.441 million | 39.8 | 29.5 | 1.78 | 2.37 | 82.8 | 72.6 |
| 2070* | 226.126 million | 451.260 million | 43.4 | 31.9 | 1.75 | 2.21 | 84.4 | 74.0 |
| 2080* | 224.081 million | 479.745 million | 46.4 | 34.2 | 1.74 | 2.09 | 85.9 | 75.3 |
| 2090* | 218.048 million | 499.173 million | 48.3 | 36.3 | 1.73 | 2.00 | 87.2 | 76.7 |
| 2100* | 208.597 million | 511.001 million | 49.7 | 38.3 | 1.72 | 1.93 | 88.3 | 78.2 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
BGD − PAK · 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 Pakistan, 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 Pakistan 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
Every figure for Bangladesh and Pakistan 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.
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.
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