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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Brazil and 
Mexico, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In Brazil, half are older than 36; in Mexico, half are older than 31.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Brazil 211,140,729 people · Mexico 129,739,759
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
BRA × MEX · 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
- 19
- Aged 15 to 64
- 69
- Aged 65 and over
- 12
- Children, under 15
- 24
- Aged 15 to 64
- 67
- Aged 65 and over
- 9
BRA × MEX · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Brazil would have about 1.6 children and a woman in Mexico about 1.9. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 76 years in Brazil, about 76 in Mexico.
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.
BRA × MEX · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Brazil has about 60% more people than Mexico: 214 million against 133 million.
Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Brazil's population is 4.0 times what it was in 1950, while Mexico's population is 4.8 times what it was in 1950.
Looking ahead: Brazil's population is expected to peak in 2042, and Mexico's population is expected to peak in 2058. In 2100: 163 million in Brazil, 130 million in Mexico (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Brazil: people | Mexico: people | Brazil: half older than | Mexico: half older than | Brazil: children per woman | Mexico: children per woman | Brazil: life expectancy | Mexico: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 53.4085 million | 27.5879 million | 18.5 | 17.9 | 6.12 | 6.71 | 48.5 | 43.8 |
| 1960 | 72.3881 million | 36.7246 million | 17.9 | 16.5 | 6.05 | 6.76 | 53.2 | 53.6 |
| 1970 | 95.3756 million | 50.8150 million | 18.3 | 16.0 | 4.93 | 6.53 | 57.3 | 58.9 |
| 1980 | 121.207 million | 67.3003 million | 20.2 | 16.7 | 4.04 | 4.74 | 61.8 | 64.3 |
| 1990 | 149.143 million | 82.8202 million | 22.4 | 19.7 | 2.90 | 3.44 | 65.9 | 69.0 |
| 2000 | 174.018 million | 98.6256 million | 25.2 | 22.8 | 2.25 | 2.71 | 69.6 | 72.6 |
| 2010 | 193.702 million | 113.624 million | 29.2 | 25.8 | 1.79 | 2.34 | 73.8 | 73.7 |
| 2023 | 211.141 million | 129.740 million | 34.9 | 29.9 | 1.62 | 1.91 | 75.8 | 75.1 |
| 2030* | 216.074 million | 136.905 million | 37.9 | 32.5 | 1.58 | 1.79 | 77.1 | 76.4 |
| 2040* | 219.237 million | 144.624 million | 41.8 | 36.1 | 1.57 | 1.73 | 78.7 | 78.1 |
| 2050* | 217.489 million | 148.946 million | 44.9 | 39.7 | 1.56 | 1.70 | 80.3 | 79.8 |
| 2060* | 211.039 million | 149.893 million | 47.3 | 43.0 | 1.56 | 1.69 | 81.8 | 81.5 |
| 2070* | 200.893 million | 148.063 million | 49.3 | 45.5 | 1.57 | 1.68 | 83.2 | 82.9 |
| 2080* | 188.599 million | 143.798 million | 50.3 | 47.5 | 1.57 | 1.67 | 84.5 | 84.3 |
| 2090* | 175.781 million | 137.597 million | 51.0 | 49.1 | 1.58 | 1.67 | 85.7 | 85.6 |
| 2100* | 163.364 million | 130.249 million | 51.7 | 50.2 | 1.58 | 1.67 | 86.8 | 86.8 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
BRA − MEX · 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 Brazil and which is Mexico, 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; Brazil is drawn in solid blue squares and Mexico in open orange squares, so you can see whether each is ahead of the crowd, behind it or in the middle.
Apparatus
Sources and method
Every figure for Brazil and Mexico 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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