Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Mozambique and Peru, side by side

Mozambique in 2026: half the people are older than 18. Peru: half are older than 32.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Mozambique 33,635,160 people · Peru 33,845,617

Mozambique 36.6 million people Half are older than 18 3 in 100 are 65 or older

Peru 34.9 million people Half are older than 32 10 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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MOZ × PER · 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.

Mozambique

Children, under 15: 44
Aged 15 to 64: 53
Aged 65 and over: 3

Peru

Children, under 15: 23
Aged 15 to 64: 67
Aged 65 and over: 10

MOZ × PER · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

Mozambique is at about 4.5 children for each woman, at this year's rates; Peru is at about 1.9. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 64 years in Mozambique, about 78 in Peru.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Mozambique 4.5

Peru 1.9

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.

Mozambique 64 years

Peru 78 years

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

MOZ × PER · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Mozambique is the larger of the two, with about as many people as Peru: 36.6 million to 34.9 million.

Set each against its own 1950 self and Mozambique's population is 6.2 times what it was in 1950, Peru's population is 4.5 times what it was in 1950.

Mozambique's population is still growing in 2100; Peru's population is expected to peak in 2066. In 2100: 104 million in Mozambique, 38.2 million in Peru (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Mozambique: people	Peru: people	Mozambique: half older than	Peru: half older than	Mozambique: children per woman	Peru: children per woman	Mozambique: life expectancy	Peru: life expectancy
1950	5.91023 million	7.67741 million	20.2	18.9	6.00	6.94	37.3	46.0
1960	6.71370 million	10.1741 million	19.9	18.1	6.31	6.94	41.2	50.6
1970	8.25051 million	13.5012 million	18.6	17.8	6.70	6.32	42.5	47.7
1980	11.3362 million	17.3609 million	17.5	18.4	6.53	5.04	44.0	60.0
1990	13.0945 million	22.0148 million	16.9	19.8	6.32	3.91	44.3	64.0
2000	18.1297 million	26.5983 million	17.2	22.4	5.83	2.85	49.5	69.8
2010	22.9992 million	29.0860 million	16.8	26.2	5.66	2.42	55.0	72.9
2023	33.6352 million	33.8456 million	17.3	30.5	4.76	1.98	63.6	77.7
2030*	40.8468 million	36.1939 million	18.3	33.0	4.23	1.87	64.8	79.0
2040*	52.1242 million	38.7946 million	20.2	36.5	3.47	1.79	66.4	80.7
2050*	63.5309 million	40.5839 million	22.6	40.1	2.92	1.74	67.8	82.3
2060*	74.6381 million	41.5355 million	25.3	43.0	2.58	1.72	69.2	83.8
2070*	84.5724 million	41.6449 million	28.0	45.5	2.34	1.70	70.4	85.1
2080*	92.9654 million	40.9815 million	30.6	47.4	2.18	1.70	71.6	86.3
2090*	99.6541 million	39.7365 million	33.0	48.8	2.07	1.69	72.9	87.3
2100*	104.347 million	38.1633 million	35.2	49.9	2.00	1.69	74.2	88.3

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

MOZ − PER · 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 Mozambique and which is Peru, 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; Mozambique is drawn in solid blue squares and Peru 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.

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.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

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