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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Colombia and 
Italy, side by side
In 2026, half of the people in Colombia are older than 34. In Italy, half are older than 50.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Colombia 52,321,152 people · Italy 59,499,453
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
COL × ITA · 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
- 20
- Aged 15 to 64
- 69
- Aged 65 and over
- 11
- Children, under 15
- 11
- Aged 15 to 64
- 63
- Aged 65 and over
- 26
COL × ITA · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
At today's rates, a woman in Colombia would have about 1.6 children in her lifetime. In Italy, about 1.2. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 78 years in Colombia, about 84 in Italy.
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.
COL × ITA · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Italy has about as many people as Colombia: 58.9 million against 53.9 million.
Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Colombia's population is 4.6 times what it was in 1950, while Italy's population is 1.3 times what it was in 1950.
Colombia's population is expected to peak in 2050; Italy's population peaked in 2014. The UN expects Colombia to have more people than Italy from 2034. In 2100: 47.1 million in Colombia, 35.4 million in Italy (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Colombia: people | Italy: people | Colombia: half older than | Italy: half older than | Colombia: children per woman | Italy: children per woman | Colombia: life expectancy | Italy: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 11.7670 million | 46.3917 million | 17.9 | 28.5 | 6.41 | 2.52 | 48.3 | 65.7 |
| 1960 | 15.6062 million | 49.5146 million | 16.5 | 31.5 | 6.74 | 2.38 | 56.6 | 69.2 |
| 1970 | 20.8118 million | 53.3902 million | 16.7 | 32.9 | 5.28 | 2.40 | 61.5 | 71.6 |
| 1980 | 26.1045 million | 56.4121 million | 18.9 | 34.0 | 3.80 | 1.65 | 66.7 | 74.0 |
| 1990 | 32.4401 million | 57.0314 million | 21.8 | 37.1 | 3.00 | 1.33 | 68.7 | 77.0 |
| 2000 | 39.0899 million | 57.2722 million | 24.2 | 40.3 | 2.57 | 1.25 | 70.9 | 79.6 |
| 2010 | 44.7773 million | 60.1642 million | 27.5 | 43.5 | 2.01 | 1.44 | 74.9 | 82.1 |
| 2023 | 52.3212 million | 59.4995 million | 32.6 | 48.5 | 1.65 | 1.20 | 77.7 | 83.7 |
| 2030* | 55.7365 million | 57.9461 million | 35.8 | 51.0 | 1.58 | 1.25 | 79.0 | 84.7 |
| 2040* | 58.5765 million | 55.2212 million | 40.5 | 53.0 | 1.57 | 1.30 | 80.8 | 86.0 |
| 2050* | 59.3854 million | 51.8911 million | 44.7 | 53.9 | 1.58 | 1.35 | 82.4 | 87.2 |
| 2060* | 58.8334 million | 47.5845 million | 47.8 | 54.0 | 1.58 | 1.39 | 84.0 | 88.4 |
| 2070* | 57.1285 million | 43.3533 million | 50.0 | 54.4 | 1.59 | 1.42 | 85.3 | 89.5 |
| 2080* | 54.2680 million | 40.2259 million | 51.8 | 54.0 | 1.59 | 1.43 | 86.6 | 90.6 |
| 2090* | 50.6745 million | 37.7486 million | 52.5 | 53.9 | 1.60 | 1.46 | 87.8 | 91.7 |
| 2100* | 47.0808 million | 35.3768 million | 52.8 | 54.4 | 1.60 | 1.48 | 88.9 | 92.8 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
COL − ITA · 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 Colombia and which is Italy, 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; Colombia is drawn in solid blue squares and Italy 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 Colombia and Italy 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.
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.
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