Topics
Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Italy and 
Myanmar, side by side
In 2026, half of the people in Italy are older than 50. In Myanmar, half are older than 31.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Italy 59,499,453 people · Myanmar 54,133,798
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
ITA × MMR · 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
- 11
- Aged 15 to 64
- 63
- Aged 65 and over
- 26
- Children, under 15
- 24
- Aged 15 to 64
- 68
- Aged 65 and over
- 8
ITA × MMR · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
At today's rates, a woman in Italy would have about 1.2 children in her lifetime. In Myanmar, about 2.1. Babies born this year can expect about 84 years of life in Italy and about 68 in Myanmar.
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.
ITA × MMR · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
There are 58.9 million people in Italy and 55.2 million in Myanmar: about as many people as Myanmar.
Italy's population is 1.3 times what it was in 1950; Myanmar's population is 3.1 times what it was in 1950.
Italy's population peaked in 2014; Myanmar's population is expected to peak in 2049. The UN expects Myanmar to have more people than Italy from 2034. In 2100: 35.4 million in Italy, 49.7 million in Myanmar (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Italy: people | Myanmar: people | Italy: half older than | Myanmar: half older than | Italy: children per woman | Myanmar: children per woman | Italy: life expectancy | Myanmar: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 46.3917 million | 17.7371 million | 28.5 | 21.7 | 2.52 | 5.94 | 65.7 | 35.7 |
| 1960 | 49.5146 million | 21.7303 million | 31.5 | 20.9 | 2.38 | 5.90 | 69.2 | 44.1 |
| 1970 | 53.3902 million | 27.1930 million | 32.9 | 19.5 | 2.40 | 5.68 | 71.6 | 50.5 |
| 1980 | 56.4121 million | 33.2272 million | 34.0 | 20.1 | 1.65 | 4.79 | 74.0 | 54.4 |
| 1990 | 57.0314 million | 39.8173 million | 37.1 | 21.6 | 1.33 | 3.50 | 77.0 | 57.2 |
| 2000 | 57.2722 million | 45.2908 million | 40.3 | 23.9 | 1.25 | 2.81 | 79.6 | 60.4 |
| 2010 | 60.1642 million | 49.0244 million | 43.5 | 26.8 | 1.44 | 2.33 | 82.1 | 63.5 |
| 2023 | 59.4995 million | 54.1338 million | 48.5 | 30.5 | 1.20 | 2.12 | 83.7 | 66.9 |
| 2030* | 57.9461 million | 56.3510 million | 51.0 | 32.6 | 1.25 | 2.00 | 84.7 | 68.3 |
| 2040* | 55.2212 million | 58.1699 million | 53.0 | 35.3 | 1.30 | 1.90 | 86.0 | 70.0 |
| 2050* | 51.8911 million | 58.6232 million | 53.9 | 37.3 | 1.35 | 1.83 | 87.2 | 71.6 |
| 2060* | 47.5845 million | 57.9353 million | 54.0 | 39.4 | 1.39 | 1.79 | 88.4 | 73.1 |
| 2070* | 43.3533 million | 56.4372 million | 54.4 | 41.0 | 1.42 | 1.77 | 89.5 | 74.6 |
| 2080* | 40.2259 million | 54.4336 million | 54.0 | 42.4 | 1.43 | 1.75 | 90.6 | 76.1 |
| 2090* | 37.7486 million | 52.1364 million | 53.9 | 43.6 | 1.46 | 1.73 | 91.7 | 77.6 |
| 2100* | 35.3768 million | 49.6589 million | 54.4 | 44.8 | 1.48 | 1.73 | 92.8 | 79.0 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
ITA − MMR · 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 Italy and which is Myanmar, 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; Italy is drawn in solid blue squares and Myanmar 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: Italy · Myanmar. Or pick any two places with the boxes at the top of this page.
Other comparisons
- Algeria and Italy
- Argentina and Italy
- Canada and Italy
- Colombia and Italy
- Italy and Japan
- Italy and Kenya
- Italy and Niger
- Italy and Spain
- Italy and Sudan
- Italy and Uganda
- Bangladesh and Myanmar
- Colombia and Myanmar
- Myanmar and Sudan
- Myanmar and Thailand
- Myanmar and Uganda
- Italy and Southern Europe
- Myanmar and South-Eastern Asia
Apparatus
Sources and method
Italy and Myanmar are drawn here from one source and one release: the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects 2024, counted through 2023 and projected on its medium variant after that. Two places read off the same tables can be set against each other; two read off different tables cannot.
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 →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries