Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Morocco and Poland, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In Morocco, half are older than 31; in Poland, half are older than 44.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Morocco 37,712,505 people · Poland 38,762,844

Morocco 38.8 million people Half are older than 31 9 in 100 are 65 or older

Poland 37.8 million people Half are older than 44 21 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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MAR × POL · 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.

Morocco

Children, under 15: 25
Aged 15 to 64: 66
Aged 65 and over: 9

Poland

Children, under 15: 14
Aged 15 to 64: 65
Aged 65 and over: 21

MAR × POL · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

Morocco is at about 2.2 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Poland is at about 1.3. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 76 years in Morocco, about 79 in Poland.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Morocco 2.2

Poland 1.3

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.

Morocco 76 years

Poland 79 years

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

MAR × POL · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Morocco has about as many people as Poland: 38.8 million against 37.8 million.

Morocco's population is 4.3 times what it was in 1950; Poland's population is 1.5 times what it was in 1950.

Morocco's population is expected to peak in 2058; Poland's population peaked in 2023. In 2100: 37.9 million in Morocco, 19.3 million in Poland (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Morocco: people	Poland: people	Morocco: half older than	Poland: half older than	Morocco: children per woman	Poland: children per woman	Morocco: life expectancy	Poland: life expectancy
1950	8.93545 million	24.7802 million	19.3	25.8	6.14	3.65	38.8	58.3
1960	11.6249 million	29.5760 million	17.9	26.6	6.89	3.00	41.7	67.1
1970	15.1295 million	32.5426 million	16.5	28.3	6.68	2.25	48.7	69.6
1980	19.4599 million	35.5765 million	17.4	29.5	5.78	2.28	55.2	70.5
1990	24.3756 million	38.0555 million	19.4	32.4	4.06	2.06	62.4	70.6
2000	28.4234 million	38.2581 million	22.4	35.3	2.77	1.37	66.8	73.7
2010	32.4670 million	38.0954 million	25.7	37.9	2.63	1.41	70.8	76.3
2023	37.7125 million	38.7628 million	30.2	42.3	2.23	1.30	75.3	78.6
2030*	39.9535 million	37.1985 million	32.4	46.0	2.08	1.33	76.5	79.8
2040*	42.1682 million	35.1795 million	35.2	50.3	1.94	1.37	78.2	81.5
2050*	43.4404 million	32.8141 million	38.4	52.8	1.86	1.40	79.8	83.0
2060*	43.7074 million	30.1392 million	41.5	53.5	1.82	1.42	81.3	84.4
2070*	43.0781 million	27.1036 million	43.9	55.4	1.79	1.45	82.6	85.6
2080*	41.8064 million	24.0377 million	45.7	56.2	1.76	1.46	83.9	86.8
2090*	40.0481 million	21.4526 million	47.5	55.5	1.74	1.47	85.1	87.9
2100*	37.8844 million	19.3298 million	49.1	56.3	1.74	1.49	86.3	89.0

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

MAR − POL · 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 Poland, 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 Poland 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 Poland 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.

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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