Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Italy and Sudan, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In Italy, half are older than 50; in Sudan, half are older than 20.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Italy 59,499,453 people · Sudan 50,042,790

Italy 58.9 million people Half are older than 50 26 in 100 are 65 or older

Sudan 53.3 million people Half are older than 20 3 in 100 are 65 or older

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.

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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.

Year 2026 · UN projection

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ITA × SDN · 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.

Italy

Children, under 15: 11
Aged 15 to 64: 63
Aged 65 and over: 26

Sudan

Children, under 15: 40
Aged 15 to 64: 57
Aged 65 and over: 3

ITA × SDN · 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 Sudan, about 4.1. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Babies born this year can expect about 84 years of life in Italy and about 67 in Sudan.

Children per woman, 2026

Each figure is one child: how many children a woman would have in her lifetime at that year’s rates.

Italy 1.2

Sudan 4.1

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.

Italy 84 years

Sudan 67 years

Hatched marks are UN projections (medium variant), not measurements.

ITA × SDN · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Italy has about 10% more people than Sudan: 58.9 million against 53.3 million.

Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Italy's population is 1.3 times what it was in 1950, while Sudan's population is 8.6 times what it was in 1950.

Italy's population peaked in 2014; Sudan's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Sudan to have more people than Italy from 2030. In 2100: 35.4 million in Italy, 137 million in Sudan (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Italy: people	Sudan: people	Italy: half older than	Sudan: half older than	Italy: children per woman	Sudan: children per woman	Italy: life expectancy	Sudan: life expectancy
1950	46.3917 million	6.18991 million	28.5	17.1	2.52	6.66	65.7	45.8
1960	49.5146 million	8.36449 million	31.5	16.6	2.38	6.66	69.2	49.6
1970	53.3902 million	11.6958 million	32.9	16.1	2.40	6.99	71.6	52.3
1980	56.4121 million	17.0589 million	34.0	16.4	1.65	6.59	74.0	54.1
1990	57.0314 million	22.0215 million	37.1	16.8	1.33	6.07	77.0	55.5
2000	57.2722 million	27.8167 million	40.3	16.8	1.25	5.60	79.6	59.0
2010	60.1642 million	35.4144 million	43.5	17.3	1.44	5.14	82.1	63.0
2023	59.4995 million	50.0428 million	48.5	19.3	1.20	4.32	83.7	66.3
2030*	57.9461 million	58.5716 million	51.0	20.5	1.25	3.88	84.7	67.6
2040*	55.2212 million	71.7306 million	53.0	22.4	1.30	3.36	86.0	69.3
2050*	51.8911 million	85.2064 million	53.9	25.0	1.35	3.00	87.2	70.9
2060*	47.5845 million	98.6274 million	54.0	27.5	1.39	2.74	88.4	72.3
2070*	43.3533 million	110.783 million	54.4	29.9	1.42	2.53	89.5	73.8
2080*	40.2259 million	121.318 million	54.0	32.1	1.43	2.38	90.6	75.2
2090*	37.7486 million	130.242 million	53.9	34.3	1.46	2.25	91.7	76.7
2100*	35.3768 million	136.891 million	54.4	36.5	1.48	2.15	92.8	78.1

* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.

ITA − SDN · 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 Sudan, 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 Sudan in open orange squares, so you can see whether each is ahead of the crowd, behind it or in the middle.

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Sources and method

Every figure for Italy and Sudan 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.

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