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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Côte d’Ivoire and 
Ghana, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In Côte d’Ivoire, half are older than 20; in Ghana, half are older than 23.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Côte d’Ivoire 31,165,654 people · Ghana 33,787,914
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
CIV × GHA · 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
- 40
- Aged 15 to 64
- 57
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
- Children, under 15
- 35
- Aged 15 to 64
- 61
- Aged 65 and over
- 4
CIV × GHA · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
Côte d’Ivoire is at about 4.1 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Ghana is at about 3.3. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 62 years in Côte d’Ivoire, about 66 in Ghana.
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.
CIV × GHA · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Ghana has about as many people as Côte d’Ivoire: 35.7 million against 33.5 million.
Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Côte d’Ivoire's population is 12.2 times what it was in 1950, while Ghana's population is 7.0 times what it was in 1950.
Côte d’Ivoire's population is still growing in 2100. Meanwhile Ghana's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Côte d’Ivoire to have more people than Ghana from 2037. In 2100: 104 million in Côte d’Ivoire, 67.5 million in Ghana (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Côte d’Ivoire: people | Ghana: people | Côte d’Ivoire: half older than | Ghana: half older than | Côte d’Ivoire: children per woman | Ghana: children per woman | Côte d’Ivoire: life expectancy | Ghana: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 2.73518 million | 5.08066 million | 17.8 | 18.7 | 7.61 | 6.70 | 30.8 | 43.1 |
| 1960 | 3.67367 million | 6.96121 million | 18.5 | 17.7 | 7.69 | 6.89 | 37.2 | 46.9 |
| 1970 | 5.41157 million | 8.92581 million | 17.6 | 15.9 | 7.94 | 6.95 | 44.0 | 47.9 |
| 1980 | 8.22071 million | 11.9414 million | 16.4 | 16.6 | 7.59 | 6.47 | 51.4 | 51.1 |
| 1990 | 12.1898 million | 15.3947 million | 16.0 | 17.1 | 6.72 | 5.74 | 52.8 | 55.4 |
| 2000 | 17.6990 million | 19.6371 million | 16.7 | 18.3 | 5.77 | 4.83 | 51.4 | 58.1 |
| 2010 | 22.4881 million | 25.4750 million | 17.7 | 20.2 | 5.29 | 4.18 | 55.3 | 61.3 |
| 2023 | 31.1656 million | 33.7879 million | 19.1 | 21.9 | 4.28 | 3.40 | 61.9 | 65.5 |
| 2030* | 36.6990 million | 38.2221 million | 20.3 | 23.4 | 3.88 | 3.10 | 63.1 | 66.8 |
| 2040* | 45.7439 million | 44.5684 million | 22.3 | 25.8 | 3.43 | 2.78 | 64.6 | 68.5 |
| 2050* | 55.7470 million | 50.5530 million | 23.6 | 28.0 | 3.07 | 2.55 | 65.9 | 70.0 |
| 2060* | 65.8614 million | 55.7501 million | 25.1 | 30.0 | 2.80 | 2.35 | 67.2 | 71.5 |
| 2070* | 76.1663 million | 60.0889 million | 26.8 | 32.1 | 2.60 | 2.19 | 68.4 | 72.9 |
| 2080* | 86.1799 million | 63.6063 million | 28.5 | 34.3 | 2.42 | 2.08 | 69.6 | 74.3 |
| 2090* | 95.5571 million | 66.0999 million | 30.0 | 36.3 | 2.29 | 2.00 | 70.7 | 75.7 |
| 2100* | 104.043 million | 67.5477 million | 31.5 | 38.2 | 2.17 | 1.93 | 71.8 | 77.1 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
CIV − GHA · 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 Côte d’Ivoire and which is Ghana, 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; Côte d’Ivoire is drawn in solid blue squares and Ghana 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 Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana 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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