Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

France and Sudan, side by side

France in 2026: half the people are older than 43. Sudan: half are older than 20.

UN estimates for mid-2023: France 66,438,822 people · Sudan 50,042,790

France 66.7 million people Half are older than 43 23 in 100 are 65 or older

Sudan 53.3 million people Half are older than 20 3 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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FRA × SDN · 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.

France

Children, under 15: 16
Aged 15 to 64: 61
Aged 65 and over: 23

Sudan

Children, under 15: 40
Aged 15 to 64: 57
Aged 65 and over: 3

FRA × SDN · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

France is at about 1.6 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Sudan is at about 4.1. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Babies born this year can expect about 84 years of life in France and about 67 in Sudan.

Children per woman, 2026

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

France 1.6

Sudan 4.1

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.

France 84 years

Sudan 67 years

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

FRA × SDN · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

France has about 30% more people than Sudan: 66.7 million against 53.3 million.

France's population is 1.6 times what it was in 1950; Sudan's population is 8.6 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: France's population is expected to peak in 2095, and Sudan's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Sudan to have more people than France from 2037. In 2100: 68.5 million in France, 137 million in Sudan (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	France: people	Sudan: people	France: half older than	Sudan: half older than	France: children per woman	Sudan: children per woman	France: life expectancy	Sudan: life expectancy
1950	41.8831 million	6.18991 million	34.4	17.1	2.96	6.66	66.4	45.8
1960	46.4281 million	8.36449 million	32.8	16.6	2.73	6.66	70.4	49.6
1970	50.8131 million	11.6958 million	32.4	16.1	2.48	6.99	72.1	52.3
1980	53.9411 million	17.0589 million	32.3	16.4	1.95	6.59	74.2	54.1
1990	56.9902 million	22.0215 million	34.7	16.8	1.78	6.07	76.8	55.5
2000	59.4837 million	27.8167 million	37.7	16.8	1.88	5.60	79.0	59.0
2010	63.4174 million	35.4144 million	40.0	17.3	2.02	5.14	81.4	63.0
2023	66.4388 million	50.0428 million	42.8	19.3	1.64	4.32	83.3	66.3
2030*	67.1077 million	58.5716 million	44.0	20.5	1.64	3.88	84.2	67.6
2040*	67.9389 million	71.7306 million	44.3	22.4	1.64	3.36	85.4	69.3
2050*	68.2197 million	85.2064 million	44.5	25.0	1.65	3.00	86.6	70.9
2060*	67.8503 million	98.6274 million	45.8	27.5	1.65	2.74	87.7	72.3
2070*	67.6789 million	110.783 million	46.3	29.9	1.65	2.53	88.9	73.8
2080*	68.0249 million	121.318 million	46.2	32.1	1.65	2.38	90.0	75.2
2090*	68.4219 million	130.242 million	47.3	34.3	1.65	2.25	91.0	76.7
2100*	68.4846 million	136.891 million	48.1	36.5	1.65	2.15	92.1	78.1

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

FRA − SDN · 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 France and which is Sudan, 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; France is drawn in solid blue squares and Sudan 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 France and Sudan 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.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

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