Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Côte d’Ivoire and Madagascar, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In Côte d’Ivoire, half are older than 20; in Madagascar, half are older than 20.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Côte d’Ivoire 31,165,654 people · Madagascar 31,195,932

Côte d’Ivoire 33.5 million people Half are older than 20 3 in 100 are 65 or older

Madagascar 33.5 million people Half are older than 20 3 in 100 are 65 or older

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.

Compare shapes Compare sizes

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.

Year 2026 · UN projection

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CIV × MDG · 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.

Côte d’Ivoire

Children, under 15: 40
Aged 15 to 64: 57
Aged 65 and over: 3

Madagascar

Children, under 15: 39
Aged 15 to 64: 58
Aged 65 and over: 3

CIV × MDG · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Côte d’Ivoire would have about 4.1 children and a woman in Madagascar about 3.8. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 62 years in Côte d’Ivoire, about 64 in Madagascar.

Children per woman, 2026

Each figure is one child: how many children a woman would have in her lifetime at that year’s rates.

Côte d’Ivoire 4.1

Madagascar 3.8

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.

Côte d’Ivoire 62 years

Madagascar 64 years

Hatched marks are UN projections (medium variant), not measurements.

CIV × MDG · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Madagascar is the larger of the two, with about as many people as Côte d’Ivoire: 33.5 million to 33.5 million.

Côte d’Ivoire's population is 12.2 times what it was in 1950; Madagascar's population is 8.5 times what it was in 1950.

Côte d’Ivoire's population is still growing in 2100; Madagascar's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Côte d’Ivoire to have more people than Madagascar from 2030. In 2100: 104 million in Côte d’Ivoire, 85.3 million in Madagascar (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Côte d’Ivoire: people	Madagascar: people	Côte d’Ivoire: half older than	Madagascar: half older than	Côte d’Ivoire: children per woman	Madagascar: children per woman	Côte d’Ivoire: life expectancy	Madagascar: life expectancy
1950	2.73518 million	3.95607 million	17.8	20.7	7.61	7.43	30.8	39.7
1960	3.67367 million	5.11103 million	18.5	17.8	7.69	7.34	37.2	43.4
1970	5.41157 million	6.67200 million	17.6	16.6	7.94	7.10	44.0	47.9
1980	8.22071 million	9.00603 million	16.4	16.4	7.59	6.84	51.4	50.0
1990	12.1898 million	12.0556 million	16.0	16.8	6.72	6.14	52.8	52.1
2000	17.6990 million	16.5163 million	16.7	17.1	5.77	5.67	51.4	58.0
2010	22.4881 million	22.1833 million	17.7	17.7	5.29	4.90	55.3	62.6
2023	31.1656 million	31.1959 million	19.1	19.9	4.28	3.97	61.9	63.6
2030*	36.6990 million	36.6932 million	20.3	21.1	3.88	3.56	63.1	65.0
2040*	45.7439 million	44.8469 million	22.3	23.0	3.43	3.12	64.6	66.8
2050*	55.7470 million	53.1855 million	23.6	25.2	3.07	2.82	65.9	68.3
2060*	65.8614 million	61.3529 million	25.1	27.4	2.80	2.59	67.2	69.6
2070*	76.1663 million	68.9261 million	26.8	29.4	2.60	2.41	68.4	70.9
2080*	86.1799 million	75.5124 million	28.5	31.5	2.42	2.25	69.6	72.2
2090*	95.5571 million	80.9926 million	30.0	33.4	2.29	2.15	70.7	73.5
2100*	104.043 million	85.3411 million	31.5	35.2	2.17	2.06	71.8	74.8

* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.

CIV − MDG · 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 Madagascar, 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 Madagascar 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

Both sides of this comparison come from the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects 2024 — the same release, the same tables, counted to 2023 and projected beyond it on the medium variant. That shared origin is what a comparison rests on.

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 →

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