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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Egypt and 
Ethiopia, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In Egypt, half are older than 26; in Ethiopia, half are older than 20.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Egypt 114,535,772 people · Ethiopia 128,691,692
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
EGY × ETH · 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
- 31
- Aged 15 to 64
- 64
- Aged 65 and over
- 5
- Children, under 15
- 39
- Aged 15 to 64
- 58
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
EGY × ETH · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Egypt would have about 2.7 children and a woman in Ethiopia about 3.7. Babies born this year can expect about 72 years of life in Egypt and about 68 in Ethiopia.
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.
EGY × ETH · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
There are 139 million people in Ethiopia and 120 million in Egypt: about 20% more people than Egypt.
Set each against its own 1950 self and Egypt's population is 5.7 times what it was in 1950, Ethiopia's population is 7.9 times what it was in 1950.
Egypt's population is still growing in 2100; Ethiopia's population is still growing in 2100. In 2100: 202 million in Egypt, 367 million in Ethiopia (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Egypt: people | Ethiopia: people | Egypt: half older than | Ethiopia: half older than | Egypt: children per woman | Ethiopia: children per woman | Egypt: life expectancy | Ethiopia: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 21.1482 million | 17.6704 million | 20.5 | 18.0 | 7.06 | 6.43 | 34.0 | 35.5 |
| 1960 | 26.8965 million | 21.3767 million | 19.6 | 18.5 | 6.79 | 6.51 | 44.4 | 39.6 |
| 1970 | 34.6240 million | 27.8291 million | 19.1 | 18.0 | 6.06 | 6.78 | 49.0 | 42.1 |
| 1980 | 43.9504 million | 34.4285 million | 19.2 | 16.7 | 5.49 | 7.29 | 55.7 | 42.8 |
| 1990 | 58.3966 million | 47.6097 million | 19.5 | 16.8 | 4.51 | 7.20 | 62.5 | 45.1 |
| 2000 | 73.0833 million | 67.4115 million | 21.1 | 16.1 | 3.50 | 6.65 | 67.3 | 50.9 |
| 2010 | 89.1961 million | 90.5385 million | 23.2 | 16.8 | 3.30 | 5.28 | 69.1 | 59.7 |
| 2023 | 114.536 million | 128.692 million | 25.0 | 19.7 | 2.75 | 3.99 | 71.6 | 67.3 |
| 2030* | 127.139 million | 152.855 million | 26.6 | 21.2 | 2.59 | 3.43 | 72.8 | 69.2 |
| 2040* | 145.214 million | 188.451 million | 28.9 | 23.1 | 2.38 | 2.90 | 74.5 | 71.4 |
| 2050* | 161.630 million | 225.022 million | 32.0 | 25.6 | 2.21 | 2.55 | 76.1 | 73.3 |
| 2060* | 174.845 million | 260.708 million | 34.1 | 28.2 | 2.09 | 2.32 | 77.6 | 75.1 |
| 2070* | 185.941 million | 293.791 million | 36.2 | 30.6 | 2.00 | 2.15 | 79.2 | 76.9 |
| 2080* | 194.293 million | 323.239 million | 38.7 | 33.1 | 1.94 | 2.03 | 80.7 | 78.5 |
| 2090* | 199.500 million | 347.651 million | 40.9 | 35.4 | 1.89 | 1.94 | 82.1 | 80.1 |
| 2100* | 201.895 million | 367.290 million | 42.6 | 37.6 | 1.84 | 1.88 | 83.5 | 81.6 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
EGY − ETH · 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 Egypt and which is Ethiopia, 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; Egypt is drawn in solid blue squares and Ethiopia 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
Egypt and Ethiopia 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 →
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