Compare · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Philippines and Russia, side by side

Line both places up by age in 2026. In the Philippines, half are older than 28; in Russia, half are older than 42.

UN estimates for mid-2023: Philippines 114,891,199 people · Russia 145,440,501

Philippines 118 million people Half are older than 28 6 in 100 are 65 or older

Russia 143 million people Half are older than 42 18 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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PHL × RUS · 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.

Philippines

Children, under 15: 26
Aged 15 to 64: 68
Aged 65 and over: 6

Russia

Children, under 15: 17
Aged 15 to 64: 65
Aged 65 and over: 18

PHL × RUS · families and lifetimes

Children, and how long lives last

If the birth rates of this year held for a whole lifetime, a woman in the Philippines would have about 1.9 children and a woman in Russia about 1.5. Babies born this year can expect about 70 years of life in the Philippines and about 74 in Russia.

Children per woman, 2026

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

Philippines 1.9

Russia 1.5

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.

Philippines 70 years

Russia 74 years

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

PHL × RUS · 1950–2100 · how many

How big, and where they are heading

Russia has about 20% more people than the Philippines: 143 million against 118 million.

Since 1950 the two have moved differently: the Philippines' population is 6.2 times what it was in 1950, while Russia's population is 1.4 times what it was in 1950.

The Philippines' population is expected to peak in 2057; Russia's population peaked in 1991. The UN expects the Philippines to have more people than Russia from 2054. In 2100: 114 million in the Philippines, 126 million in Russia (UN projection, medium).

Show the numbers

Year	Philippines: people	Russia: people	Philippines: half older than	Russia: half older than	Philippines: children per woman	Russia: children per woman	Philippines: life expectancy	Russia: life expectancy
1950	18.8495 million	103.392 million	16.5	24.0	7.13	2.93	53.6	55.5
1960	27.8919 million	119.934 million	15.7	27.3	7.00	2.63	59.2	68.3
1970	37.6222 million	130.367 million	15.6	30.7	6.22	2.01	60.8	68.7
1980	48.0437 million	138.573 million	17.2	31.1	5.11	1.92	61.9	67.5
1990	62.8547 million	148.980 million	18.8	33.2	4.32	1.91	64.4	69.3
2000	79.6254 million	146.718 million	20.0	36.7	3.75	1.19	67.8	65.0
2010	96.3371 million	143.934 million	21.9	38.0	3.31	1.58	68.9	68.2
2023	114.891 million	145.440 million	26.3	40.5	1.92	1.45	69.8	73.2
2030*	121.409 million	141.889 million	29.2	43.2	1.82	1.49	70.7	74.4
2040*	129.547 million	138.282 million	33.0	44.9	1.77	1.52	71.9	76.2
2050*	134.373 million	136.133 million	36.9	42.7	1.74	1.54	73.2	77.9
2060*	135.032 million	132.893 million	40.7	44.4	1.71	1.55	74.6	79.5
2070*	133.032 million	129.711 million	42.5	44.9	1.70	1.57	76.0	81.1
2080*	128.572 million	127.838 million	44.2	43.9	1.69	1.58	77.4	82.4
2090*	121.786 million	127.144 million	46.0	44.8	1.69	1.59	78.9	83.8
2100*	114.222 million	126.387 million	47.1	46.0	1.67	1.59	80.3	85.0

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

PHL − RUS · 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 the Philippines and which is Russia, 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; the Philippines is drawn in solid blue squares and Russia 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 Philippines and Russia 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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