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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Ghana and 
Mozambique, side by side
Line both places up by age in 2026. In Ghana, half are older than 23; in Mozambique, half are older than 18.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Ghana 33,787,914 people · Mozambique 33,635,160
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
GHA × MOZ · 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
- 35
- Aged 15 to 64
- 61
- Aged 65 and over
- 4
- Children, under 15
- 44
- Aged 15 to 64
- 53
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
GHA × MOZ · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
At today's rates, a woman in Ghana would have about 3.3 children in her lifetime. In Mozambique, about 4.5. A baby born in Ghana this year can expect to live about 66 years. In Mozambique, about 64.
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.
GHA × MOZ · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Mozambique has about as many people as Ghana: 36.6 million against 35.7 million.
Set each against its own 1950 self and Ghana's population is 7.0 times what it was in 1950, Mozambique's population is 6.2 times what it was in 1950.
Ghana's population is still growing in 2100. Meanwhile Mozambique's population is still growing in 2100. In 2100: 67.5 million in Ghana, 104 million in Mozambique (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Ghana: people | Mozambique: people | Ghana: half older than | Mozambique: half older than | Ghana: children per woman | Mozambique: children per woman | Ghana: life expectancy | Mozambique: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 5.08066 million | 5.91023 million | 18.7 | 20.2 | 6.70 | 6.00 | 43.1 | 37.3 |
| 1960 | 6.96121 million | 6.71370 million | 17.7 | 19.9 | 6.89 | 6.31 | 46.9 | 41.2 |
| 1970 | 8.92581 million | 8.25051 million | 15.9 | 18.6 | 6.95 | 6.70 | 47.9 | 42.5 |
| 1980 | 11.9414 million | 11.3362 million | 16.6 | 17.5 | 6.47 | 6.53 | 51.1 | 44.0 |
| 1990 | 15.3947 million | 13.0945 million | 17.1 | 16.9 | 5.74 | 6.32 | 55.4 | 44.3 |
| 2000 | 19.6371 million | 18.1297 million | 18.3 | 17.2 | 4.83 | 5.83 | 58.1 | 49.5 |
| 2010 | 25.4750 million | 22.9992 million | 20.2 | 16.8 | 4.18 | 5.66 | 61.3 | 55.0 |
| 2023 | 33.7879 million | 33.6352 million | 21.9 | 17.3 | 3.40 | 4.76 | 65.5 | 63.6 |
| 2030* | 38.2221 million | 40.8468 million | 23.4 | 18.3 | 3.10 | 4.23 | 66.8 | 64.8 |
| 2040* | 44.5684 million | 52.1242 million | 25.8 | 20.2 | 2.78 | 3.47 | 68.5 | 66.4 |
| 2050* | 50.5530 million | 63.5309 million | 28.0 | 22.6 | 2.55 | 2.92 | 70.0 | 67.8 |
| 2060* | 55.7501 million | 74.6381 million | 30.0 | 25.3 | 2.35 | 2.58 | 71.5 | 69.2 |
| 2070* | 60.0889 million | 84.5724 million | 32.1 | 28.0 | 2.19 | 2.34 | 72.9 | 70.4 |
| 2080* | 63.6063 million | 92.9654 million | 34.3 | 30.6 | 2.08 | 2.18 | 74.3 | 71.6 |
| 2090* | 66.0999 million | 99.6541 million | 36.3 | 33.0 | 2.00 | 2.07 | 75.7 | 72.9 |
| 2100* | 67.5477 million | 104.347 million | 38.2 | 35.2 | 1.93 | 2.00 | 77.1 | 74.2 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
GHA − MOZ · 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 Ghana and which is Mozambique, 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; Ghana is drawn in solid blue squares and Mozambique in open orange squares, so you can see whether each is ahead of the crowd, behind it or in the middle.
More comparisons
Keep exploring
Each place on its own: Ghana · Mozambique. Or pick any two places with the boxes at the top of this page.
Apparatus
Sources and method
Every figure for Ghana and Mozambique 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.
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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