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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Dominican Republic and 
Haiti, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In the Dominican Republic, half are older than 30; in Haiti, half are older than 25.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Dominican Republic 11,331,266 people · Haiti 11,637,398
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
DOM × HTI · 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
- 26
- Aged 15 to 64
- 66
- Aged 65 and over
- 8
- Children, under 15
- 30
- Aged 15 to 64
- 65
- Aged 65 and over
- 5
DOM × HTI · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
The Dominican Republic is at about 2.2 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Haiti is at about 2.6. A baby born in the Dominican Republic this year can expect to live about 74 years. In Haiti, about 65.
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.
DOM × HTI · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
There are 12.0 million people in Haiti and 11.6 million in the Dominican Republic: about as many people as the Dominican Republic.
Set each against its own 1950 self and the Dominican Republic's population is 4.9 times what it was in 1950, Haiti's population is 3.7 times what it was in 1950.
The Dominican Republic's population is expected to peak in 2061. Meanwhile Haiti's population is expected to peak in 2076. In 2100: 11.7 million in the Dominican Republic, 15.2 million in Haiti (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Dominican Republic: people | Haiti: people | Dominican Republic: half older than | Haiti: half older than | Dominican Republic: children per woman | Haiti: children per woman | Dominican Republic: life expectancy | Haiti: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 2.37989 million | 3.26571 million | 16.9 | 19.8 | 7.51 | 6.25 | 44.1 | 37.2 |
| 1960 | 3.26834 million | 3.85844 million | 15.7 | 19.5 | 7.55 | 6.18 | 51.7 | 43.4 |
| 1970 | 4.39929 million | 4.63512 million | 15.7 | 19.3 | 6.18 | 5.91 | 58.5 | 47.3 |
| 1980 | 5.72904 million | 5.61449 million | 17.7 | 19.2 | 4.30 | 5.56 | 63.4 | 50.0 |
| 1990 | 7.15117 million | 6.85444 million | 19.9 | 18.8 | 3.41 | 5.41 | 67.8 | 53.2 |
| 2000 | 8.58419 million | 8.30315 million | 22.1 | 19.4 | 2.87 | 4.39 | 70.4 | 58.2 |
| 2010 | 9.82018 million | 9.80329 million | 24.7 | 21.3 | 2.56 | 3.50 | 72.0 | 45.6 |
| 2023 | 11.3313 million | 11.6374 million | 28.7 | 24.5 | 2.24 | 2.66 | 73.7 | 64.9 |
| 2030* | 11.9389 million | 12.5524 million | 31.0 | 26.5 | 2.08 | 2.43 | 74.6 | 66.1 |
| 2040* | 12.5793 million | 13.7339 million | 34.2 | 29.3 | 1.94 | 2.21 | 75.9 | 67.6 |
| 2050* | 12.9963 million | 14.7109 million | 37.2 | 32.1 | 1.86 | 2.06 | 77.3 | 69.0 |
| 2060* | 13.1525 million | 15.3780 million | 40.1 | 34.5 | 1.82 | 1.96 | 78.5 | 70.2 |
| 2070* | 13.0505 million | 15.6863 million | 42.5 | 36.4 | 1.78 | 1.89 | 79.8 | 71.5 |
| 2080* | 12.7424 million | 15.7011 million | 44.3 | 38.0 | 1.75 | 1.84 | 81.1 | 72.7 |
| 2090* | 12.2649 million | 15.5020 million | 45.9 | 39.4 | 1.74 | 1.80 | 82.3 | 74.0 |
| 2100* | 11.6749 million | 15.1511 million | 47.3 | 40.7 | 1.73 | 1.77 | 83.5 | 75.3 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
DOM − HTI · 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 the Dominican Republic and which is Haiti, 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; the Dominican Republic is drawn in solid blue squares and Haiti 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
Dominican Republic and Haiti are drawn here from one source and one release: the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects 2024, counted through 2023 and projected on its medium variant after that. Two places read off the same tables can be set against each other; two read off different tables cannot.
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 →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries