Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Nepal and Ukraine, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In Nepal, half are older than 27; in Ukraine, half are older than 43.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Nepal 29,694,614 people · Ukraine 37,732,836

Nepal 29.6 million people Half are older than 27 7 in 100 are 65 or older

Ukraine 39.5 million people Half are older than 43 19 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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NPL × UKR · 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.

Nepal

Children, under 15: 28
Aged 15 to 64: 65
Aged 65 and over: 7

Ukraine

Children, under 15: 13
Aged 15 to 64: 68
Aged 65 and over: 19

NPL × UKR · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in Nepal would have about 1.9 children and a woman in Ukraine about 1.0. A baby born in Nepal this year can expect to live about 71 years. In Ukraine, about 75.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Nepal 1.9

Ukraine 1.0

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.

Nepal 71 years

Ukraine 75 years

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

NPL × UKR · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

There are 39.5 million people in Ukraine and 29.6 million in Nepal: about 30% more people than Nepal.

Since 1950 the two have moved differently: Nepal's population is 3.5 times what it was in 1950, while Ukraine's population is 1.1 times what it was in 1950.

Looking ahead: Nepal's population is expected to peak in 2067, and Ukraine's population peaked in 1993. The UN expects Nepal to have more people than Ukraine from 2045. In 2100: 31.8 million in Nepal, 15.2 million in Ukraine (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Nepal: people	Ukraine: people	Nepal: half older than	Ukraine: half older than	Nepal: children per woman	Ukraine: children per woman	Nepal: life expectancy	Ukraine: life expectancy
1950	8.39660 million	37.3109 million	19.6	27.4	6.06	2.45	37.6	61.2
1960	10.1237 million	42.8241 million	19.5	29.3	6.07	2.29	38.6	69.4
1970	12.4362 million	47.2613 million	19.7	32.3	5.87	2.08	43.1	70.8
1980	15.5531 million	49.9552 million	19.5	33.5	5.60	1.95	48.3	69.8
1990	19.5246 million	52.0541 million	19.1	34.2	5.21	1.84	54.8	70.3
2000	24.5465 million	49.5567 million	19.3	37.3	3.98	1.11	62.6	67.8
2010	27.3420 million	46.4560 million	21.2	39.6	2.54	1.44	66.8	70.2
2023	29.6946 million	37.7328 million	25.7	43.0	1.98	0.98	70.3	73.4
2030*	30.5100 million	38.3539 million	28.1	44.7	1.86	1.03	72.1	75.7
2040*	32.9095 million	35.2709 million	32.1	49.2	1.77	1.09	74.2	77.2
2050*	34.6420 million	31.9901 million	36.0	52.1	1.73	1.14	76.0	78.8
2060*	35.6230 million	28.3113 million	39.6	54.2	1.71	1.18	77.8	80.3
2070*	35.7524 million	24.5942 million	42.8	57.2	1.70	1.22	79.3	81.7
2080*	35.0535 million	21.0759 million	45.4	59.3	1.69	1.25	80.8	83.1
2090*	33.6420 million	17.9089 million	47.1	58.7	1.68	1.27	82.3	84.4
2100*	31.8314 million	15.1974 million	48.4	58.9	1.67	1.30	83.7	85.6

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

NPL − UKR · 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 Nepal and which is Ukraine, 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; Nepal is drawn in solid blue squares and Ukraine 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

Nepal and Ukraine are drawn here from one source and one release: the UN Population Division's World Population Prospects 2024, counted through 2023 and projected on its medium variant after that. Two places read off the same tables can be set against each other; two read off different tables cannot.

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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