Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Côte d’Ivoire and Saudi Arabia, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In Côte d’Ivoire, half are older than 20; in Saudi Arabia, half are older than 31.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Côte d’Ivoire 31,165,654 people · Saudi Arabia 33,264,292

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

Saudi Arabia 35.2 million people Half are older than 31 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.

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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 × SAU · 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

Saudi Arabia

Children, under 15: 24
Aged 15 to 64: 73
Aged 65 and over: 3

CIV × SAU · 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 Saudi Arabia about 2.3. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 62 years in Côte d’Ivoire, about 79 in Saudi Arabia.

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

Saudi Arabia 2.3

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

Saudi Arabia 79 years

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

CIV × SAU · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Saudi Arabia is the larger of the two, with about as many people as Côte d’Ivoire: 35.2 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, Saudi Arabia's population is 20.6 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Côte d’Ivoire's population is still growing in 2100, and Saudi Arabia's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Côte d’Ivoire to have more people than Saudi Arabia from 2033. In 2100: 104 million in Côte d’Ivoire, 71.0 million in Saudi Arabia (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Côte d’Ivoire: people	Saudi Arabia: people	Côte d’Ivoire: half older than	Saudi Arabia: half older than	Côte d’Ivoire: children per woman	Saudi Arabia: children per woman	Côte d’Ivoire: life expectancy	Saudi Arabia: life expectancy
1950	2.73518 million	1.70327 million	17.8	19.0	7.61	7.58	30.8	40.0
1960	3.67367 million	2.43540 million	18.5	18.6	7.69	7.63	37.2	45.3
1970	5.41157 million	3.56247 million	17.6	17.3	7.94	7.58	44.0	52.7
1980	8.22071 million	6.04800 million	16.4	18.1	7.59	7.14	51.4	62.4
1990	12.1898 million	10.6407 million	16.0	19.0	6.72	5.80	52.8	68.9
2000	17.6990 million	16.1777 million	16.7	20.7	5.77	4.21	51.4	72.6
2010	22.4881 million	25.1571 million	17.7	24.5	5.29	2.81	55.3	75.6
2023	31.1656 million	33.2643 million	19.1	30.2	4.28	2.28	61.9	78.7
2030*	36.6990 million	37.4438 million	20.3	30.7	3.88	2.17	63.1	80.3
2040*	45.7439 million	42.5922 million	22.3	31.7	3.43	1.98	64.6	82.3
2050*	55.7470 million	47.6939 million	23.6	33.0	3.07	1.88	65.9	84.0
2060*	65.8614 million	52.6791 million	25.1	34.0	2.80	1.81	67.2	85.5
2070*	76.1663 million	57.4625 million	26.8	35.0	2.60	1.77	68.4	86.9
2080*	86.1799 million	61.9654 million	28.5	35.8	2.42	1.75	69.6	88.1
2090*	95.5571 million	66.4651 million	30.0	36.4	2.29	1.73	70.7	89.3
2100*	104.043 million	71.0067 million	31.5	36.8	2.17	1.72	71.8	90.3

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

CIV − SAU · 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 Saudi Arabia, 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 Saudi Arabia 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.

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.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

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