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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Canada and 
Mozambique, side by side
In 2026, half of the people in Canada are older than 42. In Mozambique, half are older than 18.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Canada 39,299,104 people · Mozambique 33,635,160
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
CAN × MOZ · 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
- 15
- Aged 15 to 64
- 64
- Aged 65 and over
- 21
- Children, under 15
- 44
- Aged 15 to 64
- 53
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
CAN × MOZ · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
Canada is at about 1.3 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Mozambique is at about 4.5. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 83 years in Canada, about 64 in Mozambique.
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.
CAN × MOZ · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
There are 40.5 million people in Canada and 36.6 million in Mozambique: about 10% more people than Mozambique.
Canada's population is 2.9 times what it was in 1950; Mozambique's population is 6.2 times what it was in 1950.
Looking ahead: Canada's population is still growing in 2100, and Mozambique's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Mozambique to have more people than Canada from 2031. In 2100: 53.6 million in Canada, 104 million in Mozambique (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Canada: people | Mozambique: people | Canada: half older than | Mozambique: half older than | Canada: children per woman | Mozambique: children per woman | Canada: life expectancy | Mozambique: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 13.7417 million | 5.91023 million | 27.7 | 20.2 | 3.37 | 6.00 | 68.2 | 37.3 |
| 1960 | 17.8988 million | 6.71370 million | 26.5 | 19.9 | 3.82 | 6.31 | 71.0 | 41.2 |
| 1970 | 21.4400 million | 8.25051 million | 26.0 | 18.6 | 2.27 | 6.70 | 72.6 | 42.5 |
| 1980 | 24.5338 million | 11.3362 million | 29.1 | 17.5 | 1.66 | 6.53 | 75.1 | 44.0 |
| 1990 | 27.7894 million | 13.0945 million | 32.8 | 16.9 | 1.70 | 6.32 | 77.4 | 44.3 |
| 2000 | 30.8918 million | 18.1297 million | 36.8 | 17.2 | 1.51 | 5.83 | 79.2 | 49.5 |
| 2010 | 34.1969 million | 22.9992 million | 39.7 | 16.8 | 1.64 | 5.66 | 81.3 | 55.0 |
| 2023 | 39.2991 million | 33.6352 million | 41.3 | 17.3 | 1.35 | 4.76 | 82.6 | 63.6 |
| 2030* | 41.6556 million | 40.8468 million | 42.7 | 18.3 | 1.32 | 4.23 | 83.7 | 64.8 |
| 2040* | 43.9514 million | 52.1242 million | 44.8 | 20.2 | 1.36 | 3.47 | 85.0 | 66.4 |
| 2050* | 45.6219 million | 63.5309 million | 46.1 | 22.6 | 1.39 | 2.92 | 86.2 | 67.8 |
| 2060* | 47.1453 million | 74.6381 million | 46.9 | 25.3 | 1.42 | 2.58 | 87.4 | 69.2 |
| 2070* | 48.8578 million | 84.5724 million | 47.5 | 28.0 | 1.45 | 2.34 | 88.5 | 70.4 |
| 2080* | 50.4493 million | 92.9654 million | 47.8 | 30.6 | 1.47 | 2.18 | 89.6 | 71.6 |
| 2090* | 51.9567 million | 99.6541 million | 47.8 | 33.0 | 1.48 | 2.07 | 90.7 | 72.9 |
| 2100* | 53.6122 million | 104.347 million | 47.9 | 35.2 | 1.49 | 2.00 | 91.8 | 74.2 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
CAN − MOZ · 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 Canada and which is Mozambique, 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; Canada is drawn in solid blue squares and Mozambique in open orange squares, so you can see whether each is ahead of the crowd, behind it or in the middle.
More comparisons
Keep exploring
Each place on its own: Canada · Mozambique. Or pick any two places with the boxes at the top of this page.
Apparatus
Sources and method
Canada and Mozambique 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.
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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