Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Myanmar and Uganda, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In Myanmar, half are older than 31; in Uganda, half are older than 18.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Myanmar 54,133,798 people · Uganda 48,656,602

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

Uganda 52.8 million people Half are older than 18 2 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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MMR × UGA · 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

Uganda

Children, under 15: 43
Aged 15 to 64: 55
Aged 65 and over: 2

MMR × UGA · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

At today's rates, a woman in Myanmar would have about 2.1 children in her lifetime. In Uganda, about 4.0. Around 2.1 children per woman keeps a population the same size over time, leaving migration aside. Babies born this year can expect about 68 years of life in Myanmar and about 69 in Uganda.

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

Uganda 4.0

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

Uganda 69 years

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

MMR × UGA · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Myanmar has about as many people as Uganda: 55.2 million against 52.8 million.

Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Myanmar's population is 3.1 times what it was in 1950, while Uganda's population is 9.2 times what it was in 1950.

Myanmar's population is expected to peak in 2049; Uganda's population is still growing in 2100. The UN expects Uganda to have more people than Myanmar from 2029. In 2100: 49.7 million in Myanmar, 121 million in Uganda (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Myanmar: people	Uganda: people	Myanmar: half older than	Uganda: half older than	Myanmar: children per woman	Uganda: children per woman	Myanmar: life expectancy	Uganda: life expectancy
1950	17.7371 million	5.75091 million	21.7	19.2	5.94	6.66	35.7	39.7
1960	21.7303 million	7.64097 million	20.9	17.0	5.90	6.91	44.1	45.6
1970	27.1930 million	10.3216 million	19.5	16.5	5.68	7.15	50.5	49.6
1980	33.2272 million	13.2757 million	20.1	15.9	4.79	7.11	54.4	43.5
1990	39.8173 million	17.5699 million	21.6	15.8	3.50	7.01	57.2	47.6
2000	45.2908 million	24.0002 million	23.9	15.0	2.81	6.79	60.4	49.6
2010	49.0244 million	32.3908 million	26.8	15.2	2.33	6.02	63.5	60.0
2023	54.1338 million	48.6566 million	30.5	17.5	2.12	4.28	66.9	68.3
2030*	56.3510 million	58.3129 million	32.6	19.0	2.00	3.61	68.3	69.8
2040*	58.1699 million	72.0204 million	35.3	21.7	1.90	2.99	70.0	71.7
2050*	58.6232 million	85.4312 million	37.3	25.0	1.83	2.61	71.6	73.4
2060*	57.9353 million	97.5423 million	39.4	28.5	1.79	2.35	73.1	75.1
2070*	56.4372 million	107.461 million	41.0	31.8	1.77	2.17	74.6	76.7
2080*	54.4336 million	114.812 million	42.4	35.1	1.75	2.04	76.1	78.2
2090*	52.1364 million	119.268 million	43.6	38.3	1.73	1.96	77.6	79.7
2100*	49.6589 million	120.835 million	44.8	41.2	1.73	1.90	79.0	81.1

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

MMR − UGA · 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 Uganda, 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 Uganda 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

Every figure for Myanmar and Uganda 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.

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