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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Canada and 
United States, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In Canada, half are older than 42; in the United States, half are older than 40.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Canada 39,299,104 people · United States 343,477,335
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 × USA · 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
- 17
- Aged 15 to 64
- 64
- Aged 65 and over
- 19
CAN × USA · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
Canada is at about 1.3 children for each woman, at this year's rates; the United States is at about 1.6. A baby born in Canada this year can expect to live about 83 years. In the United States, about 80.
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 × USA · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
There are 349 million people in the United States and 40.5 million in Canada: about 9 times as many people as Canada.
Canada's population is 2.9 times what it was in 1950; the United States' population is 2.3 times what it was in 1950.
Canada's population is still growing in 2100; the United States' population is still growing in 2100. In 2100: 53.6 million in Canada, 421 million in the United States (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Canada: people | United States: people | Canada: half older than | United States: half older than | Canada: children per woman | United States: children per woman | Canada: life expectancy | United States: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 13.7417 million | 154.203 million | 27.7 | 30.0 | 3.37 | 3.09 | 68.2 | 68.1 |
| 1960 | 17.8988 million | 180.275 million | 26.5 | 29.3 | 3.82 | 3.73 | 71.0 | 69.8 |
| 1970 | 21.4400 million | 207.796 million | 26.0 | 27.7 | 2.27 | 2.52 | 72.6 | 70.7 |
| 1980 | 24.5338 million | 229.859 million | 29.1 | 30.1 | 1.66 | 1.86 | 75.1 | 73.7 |
| 1990 | 27.7894 million | 253.373 million | 32.8 | 32.9 | 1.70 | 2.07 | 77.4 | 75.4 |
| 2000 | 30.8918 million | 281.484 million | 36.8 | 35.3 | 1.51 | 2.03 | 79.2 | 76.8 |
| 2010 | 34.1969 million | 311.063 million | 39.7 | 36.9 | 1.64 | 1.92 | 81.3 | 78.7 |
| 2023 | 39.2991 million | 343.477 million | 41.3 | 39.0 | 1.35 | 1.62 | 82.6 | 79.3 |
| 2030* | 41.6556 million | 355.650 million | 42.7 | 40.6 | 1.32 | 1.63 | 83.7 | 80.4 |
| 2040* | 43.9514 million | 370.209 million | 44.8 | 41.8 | 1.36 | 1.64 | 85.0 | 81.8 |
| 2050* | 45.6219 million | 380.847 million | 46.1 | 42.9 | 1.39 | 1.64 | 86.2 | 83.2 |
| 2060* | 47.1453 million | 388.918 million | 46.9 | 44.1 | 1.42 | 1.64 | 87.4 | 84.6 |
| 2070* | 48.8578 million | 398.218 million | 47.5 | 44.7 | 1.45 | 1.64 | 88.5 | 85.8 |
| 2080* | 50.4493 million | 407.080 million | 47.8 | 45.1 | 1.47 | 1.65 | 89.6 | 87.0 |
| 2090* | 51.9567 million | 414.458 million | 47.8 | 45.8 | 1.48 | 1.65 | 90.7 | 88.1 |
| 2100* | 53.6122 million | 421.279 million | 47.9 | 46.3 | 1.49 | 1.65 | 91.8 | 89.2 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
CAN − USA · 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 the United States, 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 the United States 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
Canada and United States 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.
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 →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries