Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Mexico and Russia, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In Mexico, half are older than 31; in Russia, half are older than 42.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Mexico 129,739,759 people · Russia 145,440,501

Mexico 133 million people Half are older than 31 9 in 100 are 65 or older

Russia 143 million people Half are older than 42 18 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.

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MEX × RUS · 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.

Mexico

Children, under 15: 24
Aged 15 to 64: 67
Aged 65 and over: 9

Russia

Children, under 15: 17
Aged 15 to 64: 65
Aged 65 and over: 18

MEX × RUS · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

At today's rates, a woman in Mexico would have about 1.9 children in her lifetime. In Russia, about 1.5. Babies born this year can expect about 76 years of life in Mexico and about 74 in Russia.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Mexico 1.9

Russia 1.5

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.

Mexico 76 years

Russia 74 years

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

MEX × RUS · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Russia is the larger of the two, with about as many people as Mexico: 143 million to 133 million.

Mexico's population is 4.8 times what it was in 1950; Russia's population is 1.4 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Mexico's population is expected to peak in 2058, and Russia's population peaked in 1991. The UN expects Mexico to have more people than Russia from 2034. In 2100: 130 million in Mexico, 126 million in Russia (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Mexico: people	Russia: people	Mexico: half older than	Russia: half older than	Mexico: children per woman	Russia: children per woman	Mexico: life expectancy	Russia: life expectancy
1950	27.5879 million	103.392 million	17.9	24.0	6.71	2.93	43.8	55.5
1960	36.7246 million	119.934 million	16.5	27.3	6.76	2.63	53.6	68.3
1970	50.8150 million	130.367 million	16.0	30.7	6.53	2.01	58.9	68.7
1980	67.3003 million	138.573 million	16.7	31.1	4.74	1.92	64.3	67.5
1990	82.8202 million	148.980 million	19.7	33.2	3.44	1.91	69.0	69.3
2000	98.6256 million	146.718 million	22.8	36.7	2.71	1.19	72.6	65.0
2010	113.624 million	143.934 million	25.8	38.0	2.34	1.58	73.7	68.2
2023	129.740 million	145.440 million	29.9	40.5	1.91	1.45	75.1	73.2
2030*	136.905 million	141.889 million	32.5	43.2	1.79	1.49	76.4	74.4
2040*	144.624 million	138.282 million	36.1	44.9	1.73	1.52	78.1	76.2
2050*	148.946 million	136.133 million	39.7	42.7	1.70	1.54	79.8	77.9
2060*	149.893 million	132.893 million	43.0	44.4	1.69	1.55	81.5	79.5
2070*	148.063 million	129.711 million	45.5	44.9	1.68	1.57	82.9	81.1
2080*	143.798 million	127.838 million	47.5	43.9	1.67	1.58	84.3	82.4
2090*	137.597 million	127.144 million	49.1	44.8	1.67	1.59	85.6	83.8
2100*	130.249 million	126.387 million	50.2	46.0	1.67	1.59	86.8	85.0

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

MEX − RUS · 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 Mexico and which is Russia, 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; Mexico is drawn in solid blue squares and Russia 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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Apparatus

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.

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.

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 →

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