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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Malaysia and 
Mozambique, side by side
Malaysia in 2026: half the people are older than 32. Mozambique: half are older than 18.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Malaysia 35,126,298 people · Mozambique 33,635,160
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
MYS × MOZ · 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
- 21
- Aged 15 to 64
- 71
- Aged 65 and over
- 8
- Children, under 15
- 44
- Aged 15 to 64
- 53
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
MYS × MOZ · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Malaysia would have about 1.5 children and a woman in Mozambique about 4.5. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Babies born this year can expect about 77 years of life in Malaysia and about 64 in Mozambique.
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.
MYS × MOZ · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Mozambique is the larger of the two, with about as many people as Malaysia: 36.6 million to 36.4 million.
Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Malaysia's population is 6.0 times what it was in 1950, while Mozambique's population is 6.2 times what it was in 1950.
Malaysia's population is expected to peak in 2072; Mozambique's population is still growing in 2100. In 2100: 44.0 million in Malaysia, 104 million in Mozambique (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Malaysia: people | Mozambique: people | Malaysia: half older than | Mozambique: half older than | Malaysia: children per woman | Mozambique: children per woman | Malaysia: life expectancy | Mozambique: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 6.09828 million | 5.91023 million | 19.8 | 20.2 | 6.43 | 6.00 | 48.5 | 37.3 |
| 1960 | 7.95620 million | 6.71370 million | 17.5 | 19.9 | 6.41 | 6.31 | 57.2 | 41.2 |
| 1970 | 10.1788 million | 8.25051 million | 17.3 | 18.6 | 5.04 | 6.70 | 63.3 | 42.5 |
| 1980 | 12.9834 million | 11.3362 million | 19.7 | 17.5 | 4.04 | 6.53 | 68.1 | 44.0 |
| 1990 | 17.8332 million | 13.0945 million | 21.4 | 16.9 | 3.30 | 6.32 | 71.0 | 44.3 |
| 2000 | 22.9678 million | 18.1297 million | 23.5 | 17.2 | 2.94 | 5.83 | 72.7 | 49.5 |
| 2010 | 28.6558 million | 22.9992 million | 26.0 | 16.8 | 2.14 | 5.66 | 75.4 | 55.0 |
| 2023 | 35.1263 million | 33.6352 million | 31.1 | 17.3 | 1.55 | 4.76 | 76.7 | 63.6 |
| 2030* | 37.9617 million | 40.8468 million | 34.0 | 18.3 | 1.51 | 4.23 | 77.8 | 64.8 |
| 2040* | 41.5096 million | 52.1242 million | 37.8 | 20.2 | 1.51 | 3.47 | 79.5 | 66.4 |
| 2050* | 44.2898 million | 63.5309 million | 41.1 | 22.6 | 1.53 | 2.92 | 81.1 | 67.8 |
| 2060* | 45.8501 million | 74.6381 million | 44.3 | 25.3 | 1.53 | 2.58 | 82.7 | 69.2 |
| 2070* | 46.3730 million | 84.5724 million | 46.1 | 28.0 | 1.55 | 2.34 | 84.1 | 70.4 |
| 2080* | 46.1191 million | 92.9654 million | 46.9 | 30.6 | 1.56 | 2.18 | 85.5 | 71.6 |
| 2090* | 45.1730 million | 99.6541 million | 47.7 | 33.0 | 1.56 | 2.07 | 86.7 | 72.9 |
| 2100* | 44.0261 million | 104.347 million | 48.4 | 35.2 | 1.56 | 2.00 | 87.9 | 74.2 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
MYS − MOZ · 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 Malaysia and which is Mozambique, 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; Malaysia is drawn in solid blue squares and Mozambique 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
Both sides of this comparison come from the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects 2024 — the same release, the same tables, counted to 2023 and projected beyond it on the medium variant. That shared origin is what a comparison rests on.
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.
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