Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Egypt and Japan, side by side

In 2026, half of the people in Egypt are older than 26. In Japan, half are older than 51.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Egypt 114,535,772 people · Japan 124,370,946

Egypt 120 million people Half are older than 26 5 in 100 are 65 or older

Japan 122 million people Half are older than 51 30 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.

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EGY × JPN · 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.

Egypt

Children, under 15: 31
Aged 15 to 64: 64
Aged 65 and over: 5

Japan

Children, under 15: 11
Aged 15 to 64: 59
Aged 65 and over: 30

EGY × JPN · 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 Japan about 1.2. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. A baby born in Egypt this year can expect to live about 72 years. In Japan, about 85.

Children per woman, 2026

Each figure is one child: how many children a woman would have in her lifetime at that year’s rates.

Egypt 2.7

Japan 1.2

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.

Egypt 72 years

Japan 85 years

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

EGY × JPN · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

There are 122 million people in Japan and 120 million in Egypt: about as many people as Egypt.

Egypt's population is 5.7 times what it was in 1950; Japan's population is 1.4 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Egypt's population is still growing in 2100, and Japan's population peaked in 2009. The UN expects Egypt to have more people than Japan from 2027. In 2100: 202 million in Egypt, 76.8 million in Japan (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Egypt: people	Japan: people	Egypt: half older than	Japan: half older than	Egypt: children per woman	Japan: children per woman	Egypt: life expectancy	Japan: life expectancy
1950	21.1482 million	86.4433 million	20.5	22.3	7.06	3.62	34.0	59.3
1960	26.8965 million	96.3997 million	19.6	25.7	6.79	1.98	44.4	67.7
1970	34.6240 million	106.712 million	19.1	29.3	6.06	2.04	49.0	72.0
1980	43.9504 million	118.359 million	19.2	32.7	5.49	1.74	55.7	76.1
1990	58.3966 million	123.400 million	19.5	37.9	4.51	1.51	62.5	79.0
2000	73.0833 million	127.028 million	21.1	41.8	3.50	1.35	67.3	81.2
2010	89.1961 million	128.185 million	23.2	45.2	3.30	1.36	69.1	82.9
2023	114.536 million	124.371 million	25.0	50.0	2.75	1.21	71.6	84.7
2030*	127.139 million	119.584 million	26.6	52.5	2.59	1.26	72.8	85.7
2040*	145.214 million	112.158 million	28.9	54.1	2.38	1.31	74.5	87.1
2050*	161.630 million	105.123 million	32.0	53.8	2.21	1.35	76.1	88.4
2060*	174.845 million	98.1032 million	34.1	54.1	2.09	1.39	77.6	89.7
2070*	185.941 million	90.6118 million	36.2	54.6	2.00	1.42	79.2	90.9
2080*	194.293 million	84.7300 million	38.7	53.7	1.94	1.44	80.7	92.1
2090*	199.500 million	80.6344 million	40.9	53.4	1.89	1.46	82.1	93.2
2100*	201.895 million	76.8460 million	42.6	54.0	1.84	1.47	83.5	94.4

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

EGY − JPN · 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 Japan, 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 Japan 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 Japan 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.

How the median age and the “100 people” pictures are worked out, and why the pictures of every country leave the regions out: how the figures here are put together.

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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