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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
India and 
Pakistan, side by side
In 2026, half of the people in India are older than 30. In Pakistan, half are older than 22.
UN estimates for mid-2023: India 1,438,069,596 people · Pakistan 247,504,496
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
IND × PAK · 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
- 24
- Aged 15 to 64
- 68
- Aged 65 and over
- 8
- Children, under 15
- 36
- Aged 15 to 64
- 60
- Aged 65 and over
- 4
IND × PAK · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
At today's rates, a woman in India would have about 1.9 children in her lifetime. In Pakistan, about 3.4. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Babies born this year can expect about 73 years of life in India and about 68 in Pakistan.
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.
IND × PAK · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
India has about 6 times as many people as Pakistan: 1.48 billion against 259 million.
Set each against its own 1950 self and India's population is 4.3 times what it was in 1950, Pakistan's population is 7.2 times what it was in 1950.
Looking ahead: India's population is expected to peak in 2061, and Pakistan's population is still growing in 2100. In 2100: 1.51 billion in India, 511 million in Pakistan (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | India: people | Pakistan: people | India: half older than | Pakistan: half older than | India: children per woman | Pakistan: children per woman | India: life expectancy | Pakistan: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 346.279 million | 35.8493 million | 21.0 | 18.3 | 5.73 | 6.80 | 41.2 | 34.3 |
| 1960 | 435.990 million | 45.7093 million | 20.2 | 19.0 | 5.92 | 6.80 | 45.6 | 44.1 |
| 1970 | 545.864 million | 60.1667 million | 19.1 | 18.1 | 5.62 | 6.80 | 48.6 | 52.9 |
| 1980 | 687.354 million | 82.2910 million | 19.9 | 18.1 | 4.78 | 6.73 | 53.6 | 57.2 |
| 1990 | 864.972 million | 116.156 million | 20.7 | 17.9 | 4.04 | 6.36 | 58.6 | 59.7 |
| 2000 | 1.05792 billion | 154.879 million | 22.2 | 18.0 | 3.35 | 5.35 | 62.8 | 61.9 |
| 2010 | 1.24348 billion | 199.239 million | 24.6 | 19.8 | 2.60 | 4.40 | 67.2 | 64.4 |
| 2023 | 1.43807 billion | 247.505 million | 29.1 | 21.3 | 1.98 | 3.60 | 72.0 | 67.7 |
| 2030* | 1.52514 billion | 276.883 million | 31.8 | 22.6 | 1.88 | 3.25 | 73.6 | 68.6 |
| 2040* | 1.62258 billion | 324.938 million | 35.7 | 25.0 | 1.80 | 2.87 | 75.7 | 70.0 |
| 2050* | 1.67959 billion | 371.864 million | 39.3 | 27.3 | 1.76 | 2.58 | 77.5 | 71.3 |
| 2060* | 1.70095 billion | 414.441 million | 42.3 | 29.5 | 1.73 | 2.37 | 79.3 | 72.6 |
| 2070* | 1.68920 billion | 451.260 million | 44.6 | 31.9 | 1.72 | 2.21 | 81.0 | 74.0 |
| 2080* | 1.64555 billion | 479.745 million | 46.5 | 34.2 | 1.71 | 2.09 | 82.5 | 75.3 |
| 2090* | 1.58031 billion | 499.173 million | 47.9 | 36.3 | 1.70 | 2.00 | 84.0 | 76.7 |
| 2100* | 1.50525 billion | 511.001 million | 48.8 | 38.3 | 1.69 | 1.93 | 85.3 | 78.2 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
IND − PAK · 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 India and which is Pakistan, 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; India is drawn in solid blue squares and Pakistan in open orange squares, so you can see whether each is ahead of the crowd, behind it or in the middle.
Apparatus
Sources and method
Every figure for India and Pakistan 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.
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.
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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