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Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024
Morocco and 
Mozambique, side by side
In 2026, half of the people in Morocco are older than 31. In Mozambique, half are older than 18.
UN estimates for mid-2023: Morocco 37,712,505 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
MAR × 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
- 25
- Aged 15 to 64
- 66
- Aged 65 and over
- 9
- Children, under 15
- 44
- Aged 15 to 64
- 53
- Aged 65 and over
- 3
MAR × MOZ · families and lifetimes
Children, and how long lives last
At today's rates, a woman in Morocco would have about 2.2 children in her lifetime. In Mozambique, about 4.5. Babies born this year can expect about 76 years of life in Morocco 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.
MAR × MOZ · 1950–2100 · how many
How big, and where they are heading
Morocco has about as many people as Mozambique: 38.8 million against 36.6 million.
Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Morocco's population is 4.3 times what it was in 1950, while Mozambique's population is 6.2 times what it was in 1950.
Morocco's population is expected to peak in 2058; Mozambique's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Mozambique to have more people than Morocco from 2029. In 2100: 37.9 million in Morocco, 104 million in Mozambique (UN projection, medium).
Show the numbers
| Year | Morocco: people | Mozambique: people | Morocco: half older than | Mozambique: half older than | Morocco: children per woman | Mozambique: children per woman | Morocco: life expectancy | Mozambique: life expectancy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 8.93545 million | 5.91023 million | 19.3 | 20.2 | 6.14 | 6.00 | 38.8 | 37.3 |
| 1960 | 11.6249 million | 6.71370 million | 17.9 | 19.9 | 6.89 | 6.31 | 41.7 | 41.2 |
| 1970 | 15.1295 million | 8.25051 million | 16.5 | 18.6 | 6.68 | 6.70 | 48.7 | 42.5 |
| 1980 | 19.4599 million | 11.3362 million | 17.4 | 17.5 | 5.78 | 6.53 | 55.2 | 44.0 |
| 1990 | 24.3756 million | 13.0945 million | 19.4 | 16.9 | 4.06 | 6.32 | 62.4 | 44.3 |
| 2000 | 28.4234 million | 18.1297 million | 22.4 | 17.2 | 2.77 | 5.83 | 66.8 | 49.5 |
| 2010 | 32.4670 million | 22.9992 million | 25.7 | 16.8 | 2.63 | 5.66 | 70.8 | 55.0 |
| 2023 | 37.7125 million | 33.6352 million | 30.2 | 17.3 | 2.23 | 4.76 | 75.3 | 63.6 |
| 2030* | 39.9535 million | 40.8468 million | 32.4 | 18.3 | 2.08 | 4.23 | 76.5 | 64.8 |
| 2040* | 42.1682 million | 52.1242 million | 35.2 | 20.2 | 1.94 | 3.47 | 78.2 | 66.4 |
| 2050* | 43.4404 million | 63.5309 million | 38.4 | 22.6 | 1.86 | 2.92 | 79.8 | 67.8 |
| 2060* | 43.7074 million | 74.6381 million | 41.5 | 25.3 | 1.82 | 2.58 | 81.3 | 69.2 |
| 2070* | 43.0781 million | 84.5724 million | 43.9 | 28.0 | 1.79 | 2.34 | 82.6 | 70.4 |
| 2080* | 41.8064 million | 92.9654 million | 45.7 | 30.6 | 1.76 | 2.18 | 83.9 | 71.6 |
| 2090* | 40.0481 million | 99.6541 million | 47.5 | 33.0 | 1.74 | 2.07 | 85.1 | 72.9 |
| 2100* | 37.8844 million | 104.347 million | 49.1 | 35.2 | 1.74 | 2.00 | 86.3 | 74.2 |
* UN projection, medium variant. People at mid-year; ages and life expectancy in years.
MAR − 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 Morocco 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; Morocco 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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Apparatus
Sources and method
Every figure for Morocco and Mozambique 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.
How the median age and the “100 people” pictures are worked out, and why the pictures of every country leave the regions out: how the figures here are put together.
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