Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Côte d’Ivoire and Malaysia, side by side

Côte d’Ivoire in 2026: half the people are older than 20. Malaysia: half are older than 32.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Côte d’Ivoire 31,165,654 people · Malaysia 35,126,298

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

Malaysia 36.4 million people Half are older than 32 8 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.

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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 × MYS · 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

Malaysia

Children, under 15: 21
Aged 15 to 64: 71
Aged 65 and over: 8

CIV × MYS · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

At today's rates, a woman in Côte d’Ivoire would have about 4.1 children in her lifetime. In Malaysia, about 1.5. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 62 years in Côte d’Ivoire, about 77 in Malaysia.

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

Malaysia 1.5

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

Malaysia 77 years

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

CIV × MYS · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Malaysia is the larger of the two, with about as many people as Côte d’Ivoire: 36.4 million to 33.5 million.

Set each against its own 1950 self and Côte d’Ivoire's population is 12.2 times what it was in 1950, Malaysia's population is 6.0 times what it was in 1950.

Côte d’Ivoire's population is still growing in 2100. Meanwhile Malaysia's population is expected to peak in 2072. The UN expects Côte d’Ivoire to have more people than Malaysia from 2033. In 2100: 104 million in Côte d’Ivoire, 44.0 million in Malaysia (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Côte d’Ivoire: people	Malaysia: people	Côte d’Ivoire: half older than	Malaysia: half older than	Côte d’Ivoire: children per woman	Malaysia: children per woman	Côte d’Ivoire: life expectancy	Malaysia: life expectancy
1950	2.73518 million	6.09828 million	17.8	19.8	7.61	6.43	30.8	48.5
1960	3.67367 million	7.95620 million	18.5	17.5	7.69	6.41	37.2	57.2
1970	5.41157 million	10.1788 million	17.6	17.3	7.94	5.04	44.0	63.3
1980	8.22071 million	12.9834 million	16.4	19.7	7.59	4.04	51.4	68.1
1990	12.1898 million	17.8332 million	16.0	21.4	6.72	3.30	52.8	71.0
2000	17.6990 million	22.9678 million	16.7	23.5	5.77	2.94	51.4	72.7
2010	22.4881 million	28.6558 million	17.7	26.0	5.29	2.14	55.3	75.4
2023	31.1656 million	35.1263 million	19.1	31.1	4.28	1.55	61.9	76.7
2030*	36.6990 million	37.9617 million	20.3	34.0	3.88	1.51	63.1	77.8
2040*	45.7439 million	41.5096 million	22.3	37.8	3.43	1.51	64.6	79.5
2050*	55.7470 million	44.2898 million	23.6	41.1	3.07	1.53	65.9	81.1
2060*	65.8614 million	45.8501 million	25.1	44.3	2.80	1.53	67.2	82.7
2070*	76.1663 million	46.3730 million	26.8	46.1	2.60	1.55	68.4	84.1
2080*	86.1799 million	46.1191 million	28.5	46.9	2.42	1.56	69.6	85.5
2090*	95.5571 million	45.1730 million	30.0	47.7	2.29	1.56	70.7	86.7
2100*	104.043 million	44.0261 million	31.5	48.4	2.17	1.56	71.8	87.9

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

CIV − MYS · 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 Malaysia, 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 Malaysia 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.

The working behind the median age, the rounding in the “100 people” pictures and the reason the regions are kept out of the all-country views are all set out in the method.

This is one of 250 pairs with a page. The boxes at the top will take any other two places you want to see side by side.

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