Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Myanmar and Sudan, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In Myanmar, half are older than 31; in Sudan, half are older than 20.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Myanmar 54,133,798 people · Sudan 50,042,790

Myanmar 55.2 million people Half are older than 31 8 in 100 are 65 or older

Sudan 53.3 million people Half are older than 20 3 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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MMR × SDN · 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.

Myanmar

Children, under 15: 24
Aged 15 to 64: 68
Aged 65 and over: 8

Sudan

Children, under 15: 40
Aged 15 to 64: 57
Aged 65 and over: 3

MMR × SDN · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Myanmar would have about 2.1 children and a woman in Sudan about 4.1. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Life expectancy at birth this year: about 68 years in Myanmar, about 67 in Sudan.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Myanmar 2.1

Sudan 4.1

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.

Myanmar 68 years

Sudan 67 years

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

MMR × SDN · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Myanmar is the larger of the two, with about as many people as Sudan: 55.2 million to 53.3 million.

Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Myanmar's population is 3.1 times what it was in 1950, while Sudan's population is 8.6 times what it was in 1950.

Myanmar's population is expected to peak in 2049. Meanwhile Sudan's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Sudan to have more people than Myanmar from 2028. In 2100: 49.7 million in Myanmar, 137 million in Sudan (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Myanmar: people	Sudan: people	Myanmar: half older than	Sudan: half older than	Myanmar: children per woman	Sudan: children per woman	Myanmar: life expectancy	Sudan: life expectancy
1950	17.7371 million	6.18991 million	21.7	17.1	5.94	6.66	35.7	45.8
1960	21.7303 million	8.36449 million	20.9	16.6	5.90	6.66	44.1	49.6
1970	27.1930 million	11.6958 million	19.5	16.1	5.68	6.99	50.5	52.3
1980	33.2272 million	17.0589 million	20.1	16.4	4.79	6.59	54.4	54.1
1990	39.8173 million	22.0215 million	21.6	16.8	3.50	6.07	57.2	55.5
2000	45.2908 million	27.8167 million	23.9	16.8	2.81	5.60	60.4	59.0
2010	49.0244 million	35.4144 million	26.8	17.3	2.33	5.14	63.5	63.0
2023	54.1338 million	50.0428 million	30.5	19.3	2.12	4.32	66.9	66.3
2030*	56.3510 million	58.5716 million	32.6	20.5	2.00	3.88	68.3	67.6
2040*	58.1699 million	71.7306 million	35.3	22.4	1.90	3.36	70.0	69.3
2050*	58.6232 million	85.2064 million	37.3	25.0	1.83	3.00	71.6	70.9
2060*	57.9353 million	98.6274 million	39.4	27.5	1.79	2.74	73.1	72.3
2070*	56.4372 million	110.783 million	41.0	29.9	1.77	2.53	74.6	73.8
2080*	54.4336 million	121.318 million	42.4	32.1	1.75	2.38	76.1	75.2
2090*	52.1364 million	130.242 million	43.6	34.3	1.73	2.25	77.6	76.7
2100*	49.6589 million	136.891 million	44.8	36.5	1.73	2.15	79.0	78.1

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

MMR − SDN · 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 Myanmar and which is Sudan, 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; Myanmar is drawn in solid blue squares and Sudan 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.

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.

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