Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Italy and Uganda, side by side

Italy in 2026: half the people are older than 50. Uganda: half are older than 18.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Italy 59,499,453 people · Uganda 48,656,602

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

Uganda 52.8 million people Half are older than 18 2 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 × UGA · 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

Uganda

Children, under 15: 43
Aged 15 to 64: 55
Aged 65 and over: 2

ITA × UGA · 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 Uganda, about 4.0. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. A baby born in Italy this year can expect to live about 84 years. In Uganda, about 69.

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

Uganda 4.0

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

Uganda 69 years

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

ITA × UGA · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

There are 58.9 million people in Italy and 52.8 million in Uganda: about 10% more people than Uganda.

Set each against its own 1950 self and Italy's population is 1.3 times what it was in 1950, Uganda's population is 9.2 times what it was in 1950.

Italy's population peaked in 2014. Meanwhile Uganda's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Uganda to have more people than Italy from 2030. In 2100: 35.4 million in Italy, 121 million in Uganda (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Italy: people	Uganda: people	Italy: half older than	Uganda: half older than	Italy: children per woman	Uganda: children per woman	Italy: life expectancy	Uganda: life expectancy
1950	46.3917 million	5.75091 million	28.5	19.2	2.52	6.66	65.7	39.7
1960	49.5146 million	7.64097 million	31.5	17.0	2.38	6.91	69.2	45.6
1970	53.3902 million	10.3216 million	32.9	16.5	2.40	7.15	71.6	49.6
1980	56.4121 million	13.2757 million	34.0	15.9	1.65	7.11	74.0	43.5
1990	57.0314 million	17.5699 million	37.1	15.8	1.33	7.01	77.0	47.6
2000	57.2722 million	24.0002 million	40.3	15.0	1.25	6.79	79.6	49.6
2010	60.1642 million	32.3908 million	43.5	15.2	1.44	6.02	82.1	60.0
2023	59.4995 million	48.6566 million	48.5	17.5	1.20	4.28	83.7	68.3
2030*	57.9461 million	58.3129 million	51.0	19.0	1.25	3.61	84.7	69.8
2040*	55.2212 million	72.0204 million	53.0	21.7	1.30	2.99	86.0	71.7
2050*	51.8911 million	85.4312 million	53.9	25.0	1.35	2.61	87.2	73.4
2060*	47.5845 million	97.5423 million	54.0	28.5	1.39	2.35	88.4	75.1
2070*	43.3533 million	107.461 million	54.4	31.8	1.42	2.17	89.5	76.7
2080*	40.2259 million	114.812 million	54.0	35.1	1.43	2.04	90.6	78.2
2090*	37.7486 million	119.268 million	53.9	38.3	1.46	1.96	91.7	79.7
2100*	35.3768 million	120.835 million	54.4	41.2	1.48	1.90	92.8	81.1

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

ITA − UGA · 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 Uganda, 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 Uganda 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

Italy and Uganda 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.

The working behind the median age, the rounding in the “100 people” pictures and the reason the regions are kept out of the all-country views are all set out in the method.

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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