Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Madagascar and Uzbekistan, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In Madagascar, half are older than 20; in Uzbekistan, half are older than 28.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Madagascar 31,195,932 people · Uzbekistan 35,652,307

Madagascar 33.5 million people Half are older than 20 3 in 100 are 65 or older

Uzbekistan 37.7 million people Half are older than 28 6 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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MDG × UZB · 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.

Madagascar

Children, under 15: 39
Aged 15 to 64: 58
Aged 65 and over: 3

Uzbekistan

Children, under 15: 32
Aged 15 to 64: 62
Aged 65 and over: 6

MDG × UZB · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

Madagascar is at about 3.8 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Uzbekistan is at about 3.4. A baby born in Madagascar this year can expect to live about 64 years. In Uzbekistan, about 73.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Madagascar 3.8

Uzbekistan 3.4

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.

Madagascar 64 years

Uzbekistan 73 years

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

MDG × UZB · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

There are 37.7 million people in Uzbekistan and 33.5 million in Madagascar: about 10% more people than Madagascar.

Set each against its own 1950 self and Madagascar's population is 8.5 times what it was in 1950, Uzbekistan's population is 6.0 times what it was in 1950.

Madagascar's population is still growing in 2100. Meanwhile Uzbekistan's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Madagascar to have more people than Uzbekistan from 2046. In 2100: 85.3 million in Madagascar, 74.4 million in Uzbekistan (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Madagascar: people	Uzbekistan: people	Madagascar: half older than	Uzbekistan: half older than	Madagascar: children per woman	Uzbekistan: children per woman	Madagascar: life expectancy	Uzbekistan: life expectancy
1950	3.95607 million	6.23991 million	20.7	23.7	7.43	5.17	39.7	53.3
1960	5.11103 million	8.20911 million	17.8	22.2	7.34	6.61	43.4	56.5
1970	6.67200 million	11.7626 million	16.6	17.7	7.10	6.31	47.9	60.1
1980	9.00603 million	15.6199 million	16.4	18.9	6.84	5.04	50.0	63.0
1990	12.0556 million	20.4650 million	16.8	19.9	6.14	4.12	52.1	65.8
2000	16.5163 million	24.7871 million	17.1	21.4	5.67	2.70	58.0	65.5
2010	22.1833 million	28.3855 million	17.7	24.6	4.90	2.44	62.6	69.8
2023	31.1959 million	35.6523 million	19.9	27.9	3.97	3.50	63.6	72.4
2030*	36.6932 million	40.2482 million	21.1	27.8	3.56	3.22	65.0	73.3
2040*	44.8469 million	46.0442 million	23.0	27.9	3.12	2.84	66.8	74.6
2050*	53.1855 million	52.2107 million	25.2	29.2	2.82	2.55	68.3	76.0
2060*	61.3529 million	57.9380 million	27.4	31.5	2.59	2.34	69.6	77.4
2070*	68.9261 million	62.8170 million	29.4	33.1	2.41	2.20	70.9	78.9
2080*	75.5124 million	67.2888 million	31.5	35.1	2.25	2.09	72.2	80.3
2090*	80.9926 million	71.2810 million	33.4	37.6	2.15	2.00	73.5	81.7
2100*	85.3411 million	74.3500 million	35.2	40.0	2.06	1.94	74.8	83.0

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

MDG − UZB · 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 Madagascar and which is Uzbekistan, 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; Madagascar is drawn in solid blue squares and Uzbekistan 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

Madagascar and Uzbekistan 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.

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.

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.

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