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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Indonesia and 
Malaysia, side by side
In 2026, half of the people in Indonesia are older than 32. In Malaysia, half are older than 32.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Indonesia 281,190,066 people · Malaysia 35,126,298
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
IDN × MYS · 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
- 21
- Aged 15 to 64
- 71
- Aged 65 and over
- 8
IDN × MYS · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
At today's rates, a woman in Indonesia would have about 2.1 children in her lifetime. In Malaysia, about 1.5. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 72 years in Indonesia, about 77 in Malaysia.
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.
IDN × MYS · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Indonesia has about 8 times as many people as Malaysia: 288 million against 36.4 million.
Indonesia's population is 4.2 times what it was in 1950; Malaysia's population is 6.0 times what it was in 1950.
Indonesia's population is expected to peak in 2058; Malaysia's population is expected to peak in 2072. In 2100: 296 million in Indonesia, 44.0 million in Malaysia (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Indonesia: people | Malaysia: people | Indonesia: half older than | Malaysia: half older than | Indonesia: children per woman | Malaysia: children per woman | Indonesia: life expectancy | Malaysia: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 68.7990 million | 6.09828 million | 18.9 | 19.8 | 5.11 | 6.43 | 40.2 | 48.5 |
| 1960 | 88.2961 million | 7.95620 million | 20.1 | 17.5 | 5.50 | 6.41 | 46.8 | 57.2 |
| 1970 | 115.657 million | 10.1788 million | 18.9 | 17.3 | 5.49 | 5.04 | 53.3 | 63.3 |
| 1980 | 148.951 million | 12.9834 million | 19.4 | 19.7 | 4.50 | 4.04 | 58.7 | 68.1 |
| 1990 | 183.501 million | 17.8332 million | 21.6 | 21.4 | 3.11 | 3.30 | 63.3 | 71.0 |
| 2000 | 216.078 million | 22.9678 million | 24.6 | 23.5 | 2.50 | 2.94 | 66.3 | 72.7 |
| 2010 | 246.305 million | 28.6558 million | 27.6 | 26.0 | 2.46 | 2.14 | 68.4 | 75.4 |
| 2023 | 281.190 million | 35.1263 million | 30.8 | 31.1 | 2.13 | 1.55 | 71.2 | 76.7 |
| 2030* | 295.877 million | 37.9617 million | 32.8 | 34.0 | 2.01 | 1.51 | 72.2 | 77.8 |
| 2040* | 311.797 million | 41.5096 million | 35.3 | 37.8 | 1.91 | 1.51 | 73.5 | 79.5 |
| 2050* | 320.713 million | 44.2898 million | 37.8 | 41.1 | 1.85 | 1.53 | 75.0 | 81.1 |
| 2060* | 322.529 million | 45.8501 million | 40.1 | 44.3 | 1.81 | 1.53 | 76.3 | 82.7 |
| 2070* | 320.050 million | 46.3730 million | 41.7 | 46.1 | 1.78 | 1.55 | 77.7 | 84.1 |
| 2080* | 314.543 million | 46.1191 million | 43.2 | 46.9 | 1.76 | 1.56 | 79.2 | 85.5 |
| 2090* | 306.111 million | 45.1730 million | 44.8 | 47.7 | 1.74 | 1.56 | 80.5 | 86.7 |
| 2100* | 295.511 million | 44.0261 million | 46.0 | 48.4 | 1.73 | 1.56 | 81.9 | 87.9 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
IDN − MYS · 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 Indonesia and which is Malaysia, 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; Indonesia is drawn in solid blue squares and Malaysia 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 Indonesia and Malaysia 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.
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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