Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Côte d’Ivoire and Peru, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In Côte d’Ivoire, half are older than 20; in Peru, half are older than 32.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Côte d’Ivoire 31,165,654 people · Peru 33,845,617

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

Peru 34.9 million people Half are older than 32 10 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 × PER · 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

Peru

Children, under 15: 23
Aged 15 to 64: 67
Aged 65 and over: 10

CIV × PER · 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 Peru, about 1.9. 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 78 in Peru.

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

Peru 1.9

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

Peru 78 years

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

CIV × PER · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Peru has about as many people as Côte d’Ivoire: 34.9 million against 33.5 million.

Côte d’Ivoire's population is 12.2 times what it was in 1950; Peru's population is 4.5 times what it was in 1950.

Côte d’Ivoire's population is still growing in 2100. Meanwhile Peru's population is expected to peak in 2066. The UN expects Côte d’Ivoire to have more people than Peru from 2030. In 2100: 104 million in Côte d’Ivoire, 38.2 million in Peru (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Côte d’Ivoire: people	Peru: people	Côte d’Ivoire: half older than	Peru: half older than	Côte d’Ivoire: children per woman	Peru: children per woman	Côte d’Ivoire: life expectancy	Peru: life expectancy
1950	2.73518 million	7.67741 million	17.8	18.9	7.61	6.94	30.8	46.0
1960	3.67367 million	10.1741 million	18.5	18.1	7.69	6.94	37.2	50.6
1970	5.41157 million	13.5012 million	17.6	17.8	7.94	6.32	44.0	47.7
1980	8.22071 million	17.3609 million	16.4	18.4	7.59	5.04	51.4	60.0
1990	12.1898 million	22.0148 million	16.0	19.8	6.72	3.91	52.8	64.0
2000	17.6990 million	26.5983 million	16.7	22.4	5.77	2.85	51.4	69.8
2010	22.4881 million	29.0860 million	17.7	26.2	5.29	2.42	55.3	72.9
2023	31.1656 million	33.8456 million	19.1	30.5	4.28	1.98	61.9	77.7
2030*	36.6990 million	36.1939 million	20.3	33.0	3.88	1.87	63.1	79.0
2040*	45.7439 million	38.7946 million	22.3	36.5	3.43	1.79	64.6	80.7
2050*	55.7470 million	40.5839 million	23.6	40.1	3.07	1.74	65.9	82.3
2060*	65.8614 million	41.5355 million	25.1	43.0	2.80	1.72	67.2	83.8
2070*	76.1663 million	41.6449 million	26.8	45.5	2.60	1.70	68.4	85.1
2080*	86.1799 million	40.9815 million	28.5	47.4	2.42	1.70	69.6	86.3
2090*	95.5571 million	39.7365 million	30.0	48.8	2.29	1.69	70.7	87.3
2100*	104.043 million	38.1633 million	31.5	49.9	2.17	1.69	71.8	88.3

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

CIV − PER · 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 Peru, 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 Peru 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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Sources and method

Every figure for Côte d’Ivoire and Peru 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.

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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