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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Egypt and 
Tanzania, side by side
Egypt in 2026: half the people are older than 26. Tanzania: half are older than 19.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Egypt 114,535,772 people · Tanzania 66,617,606
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 × TZA · 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
- 42
- Aged 15 to 64
- 55
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
EGY × TZA · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
Egypt is at about 2.7 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Tanzania is at about 4.4. Babies born this year can expect about 72 years of life in Egypt and about 68 in Tanzania.
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 × TZA · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Egypt has about 70% more people than Tanzania: 120 million against 72.6 million.
Egypt's population is 5.7 times what it was in 1950; Tanzania's population is 9.5 times what it was in 1950.
Egypt's population is still growing in 2100. Meanwhile Tanzania's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Tanzania to have more people than Egypt from 2071. In 2100: 202 million in Egypt, 263 million in Tanzania (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Egypt: people | Tanzania: people | Egypt: half older than | Tanzania: half older than | Egypt: children per woman | Tanzania: children per woman | Egypt: life expectancy | Tanzania: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 21.1482 million | 7.62516 million | 20.5 | 17.0 | 7.06 | 6.18 | 34.0 | 41.0 |
| 1960 | 26.8965 million | 9.90142 million | 19.6 | 17.3 | 6.79 | 6.54 | 44.4 | 42.6 |
| 1970 | 34.6240 million | 13.4927 million | 19.1 | 17.0 | 6.06 | 7.00 | 49.0 | 46.5 |
| 1980 | 43.9504 million | 19.1898 million | 19.2 | 16.4 | 5.49 | 6.99 | 55.7 | 51.3 |
| 1990 | 58.3966 million | 26.1102 million | 19.5 | 16.5 | 4.51 | 6.20 | 62.5 | 52.0 |
| 2000 | 73.0833 million | 34.2601 million | 21.1 | 17.4 | 3.50 | 5.67 | 67.3 | 53.2 |
| 2010 | 89.1961 million | 44.7585 million | 23.2 | 17.1 | 3.30 | 5.22 | 69.1 | 61.1 |
| 2023 | 114.536 million | 66.6176 million | 25.0 | 18.2 | 2.75 | 4.61 | 71.6 | 67.0 |
| 2030* | 127.139 million | 80.9131 million | 26.6 | 19.1 | 2.59 | 4.16 | 72.8 | 68.4 |
| 2040* | 145.214 million | 103.999 million | 28.9 | 20.8 | 2.38 | 3.63 | 74.5 | 70.3 |
| 2050* | 161.630 million | 129.621 million | 32.0 | 22.8 | 2.21 | 3.23 | 76.1 | 71.8 |
| 2060* | 174.845 million | 156.851 million | 34.1 | 24.8 | 2.09 | 2.94 | 77.6 | 73.4 |
| 2070* | 185.941 million | 184.886 million | 36.2 | 26.9 | 2.00 | 2.72 | 79.2 | 74.8 |
| 2080* | 194.293 million | 212.537 million | 38.7 | 29.0 | 1.94 | 2.53 | 80.7 | 76.3 |
| 2090* | 199.500 million | 238.810 million | 40.9 | 31.2 | 1.89 | 2.39 | 82.1 | 77.8 |
| 2100* | 201.895 million | 262.835 million | 42.6 | 33.3 | 1.84 | 2.26 | 83.5 | 79.2 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
EGY − TZA · 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 Tanzania, 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 Tanzania 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
Every figure for Egypt and Tanzania is the United Nations Population Division's, from World Population Prospects 2024: counted to 2023, and the medium projection for each year after that. Both places are taken from the same release and the same tables, which is what makes them comparable at all.
The working behind the median age, the rounding in the “100 people” pictures and the reason the regions are kept out of the all-country views are all set out in the method.
250 comparisons have a page of their own; any other two places can be compared from the boxes at the top.
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