Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Egypt and Mexico, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In Egypt, half are older than 26; in Mexico, half are older than 31.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Egypt 114,535,772 people · Mexico 129,739,759

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

Mexico 133 million people Half are older than 31 9 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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EGY × MEX · 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

Mexico

Children, under 15: 24
Aged 15 to 64: 67
Aged 65 and over: 9

EGY × MEX · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

Egypt is at about 2.7 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Mexico is at about 1.9. 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 Mexico, about 76.

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

Mexico 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.

Egypt 72 years

Mexico 76 years

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

EGY × MEX · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Mexico is the larger of the two, with about 10% more people than Egypt: 133 million to 120 million.

Set each against its own 1950 self and Egypt's population is 5.7 times what it was in 1950, Mexico's population is 4.8 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Egypt's population is still growing in 2100, and Mexico's population is expected to peak in 2058. The UN expects Egypt to have more people than Mexico from 2040. In 2100: 202 million in Egypt, 130 million in Mexico (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Egypt: people	Mexico: people	Egypt: half older than	Mexico: half older than	Egypt: children per woman	Mexico: children per woman	Egypt: life expectancy	Mexico: life expectancy
1950	21.1482 million	27.5879 million	20.5	17.9	7.06	6.71	34.0	43.8
1960	26.8965 million	36.7246 million	19.6	16.5	6.79	6.76	44.4	53.6
1970	34.6240 million	50.8150 million	19.1	16.0	6.06	6.53	49.0	58.9
1980	43.9504 million	67.3003 million	19.2	16.7	5.49	4.74	55.7	64.3
1990	58.3966 million	82.8202 million	19.5	19.7	4.51	3.44	62.5	69.0
2000	73.0833 million	98.6256 million	21.1	22.8	3.50	2.71	67.3	72.6
2010	89.1961 million	113.624 million	23.2	25.8	3.30	2.34	69.1	73.7
2023	114.536 million	129.740 million	25.0	29.9	2.75	1.91	71.6	75.1
2030*	127.139 million	136.905 million	26.6	32.5	2.59	1.79	72.8	76.4
2040*	145.214 million	144.624 million	28.9	36.1	2.38	1.73	74.5	78.1
2050*	161.630 million	148.946 million	32.0	39.7	2.21	1.70	76.1	79.8
2060*	174.845 million	149.893 million	34.1	43.0	2.09	1.69	77.6	81.5
2070*	185.941 million	148.063 million	36.2	45.5	2.00	1.68	79.2	82.9
2080*	194.293 million	143.798 million	38.7	47.5	1.94	1.67	80.7	84.3
2090*	199.500 million	137.597 million	40.9	49.1	1.89	1.67	82.1	85.6
2100*	201.895 million	130.249 million	42.6	50.2	1.84	1.67	83.5	86.8

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

EGY − MEX · 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 Mexico, 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 Mexico 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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