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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Iran and 
Türkiye, side by side
In 2026, half of the people in Iran are older than 36. In Türkiye, half are older than 35.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Iran 90,608,707 people · Türkiye 87,270,502
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
IRN × TUR · 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
- 22
- Aged 15 to 64
- 69
- Aged 65 and over
- 9
- Children, under 15
- 21
- Aged 15 to 64
- 68
- Aged 65 and over
- 11
IRN × TUR · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Iran would have about 1.7 children and a woman in Türkiye about 1.6. A baby born in Iran this year can expect to live about 78 years. In Türkiye, about 78.
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.
IRN × TUR · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Iran has about as many people as Türkiye: 93.2 million against 87.9 million.
Set each against its own 1950 self and Iran's population is 5.6 times what it was in 1950, Türkiye's population is 4.2 times what it was in 1950.
Iran's population is expected to peak in 2053; Türkiye's population is expected to peak in 2047. In 2100: 80.0 million in Iran, 65.3 million in Türkiye (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Iran: people | Türkiye: people | Iran: half older than | Türkiye: half older than | Iran: children per woman | Türkiye: children per woman | Iran: life expectancy | Türkiye: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 16.5105 million | 21.0211 million | 21.7 | 19.6 | 6.97 | 6.47 | 38.2 | 47.3 |
| 1960 | 21.4704 million | 28.3299 million | 19.0 | 19.4 | 7.52 | 6.38 | 43.3 | 50.8 |
| 1970 | 29.1451 million | 36.6385 million | 17.5 | 18.6 | 6.80 | 5.78 | 50.2 | 56.7 |
| 1980 | 39.8423 million | 45.4088 million | 18.2 | 19.8 | 6.63 | 4.45 | 58.4 | 62.7 |
| 1990 | 58.3801 million | 56.0156 million | 18.1 | 21.8 | 4.93 | 3.11 | 64.1 | 67.8 |
| 2000 | 66.4187 million | 65.4260 million | 21.2 | 25.0 | 2.00 | 2.49 | 70.2 | 71.9 |
| 2010 | 77.4208 million | 73.3468 million | 27.1 | 29.1 | 1.75 | 2.08 | 74.4 | 75.0 |
| 2023 | 90.6087 million | 87.2705 million | 33.9 | 33.5 | 1.70 | 1.63 | 77.7 | 77.2 |
| 2030* | 95.4867 million | 89.0275 million | 37.7 | 36.8 | 1.63 | 1.61 | 79.0 | 79.1 |
| 2040* | 99.5243 million | 91.0097 million | 41.8 | 41.5 | 1.63 | 1.61 | 81.0 | 80.9 |
| 2050* | 101.862 million | 91.2581 million | 44.5 | 45.3 | 1.63 | 1.62 | 82.8 | 82.5 |
| 2060* | 100.971 million | 88.8633 million | 47.5 | 48.6 | 1.63 | 1.61 | 84.3 | 83.9 |
| 2070* | 96.7073 million | 84.3586 million | 50.7 | 51.9 | 1.64 | 1.61 | 85.8 | 85.2 |
| 2080* | 90.8439 million | 78.5557 million | 51.3 | 53.5 | 1.63 | 1.62 | 87.0 | 86.4 |
| 2090* | 85.2486 million | 72.0213 million | 51.6 | 54.5 | 1.64 | 1.62 | 88.2 | 87.5 |
| 2100* | 80.0453 million | 65.3385 million | 52.9 | 55.6 | 1.64 | 1.61 | 89.3 | 88.6 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
IRN − TUR · 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 Iran and which is Türkiye, 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; Iran is drawn in solid blue squares and Türkiye 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 Iran and Türkiye 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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